This is A Sustainable Mind, episode 13.

Welcome to A Sustainable Mind podcast, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental changemakers of tomorrow.

I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander.

Tim Silverwood is an educator, environmentalist, and speaker. He co-founded Take Three,

a Clean Beach initiative, asking everyone to complete one simple action each time they visit

the beach, waterway, park, or anywhere else,

and that is taking three pieces of litter with you when he leave.

Tim has also participated in research of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,

co-founded Circular Economy Australia, and is the director of Rechusable.

Welcome to the show, Tim.

Thanks for having me. Can you tell us a little

bit about how the environment and sustainability played a part in your life growing up? Yeah, certainly.

I mean, I was really fortunate. I think, you know, my mother had a pretty major influence on me.

I think she's, she's green in her core and that played out really

nicely in me and her and the rest of the family moving to a lovely bushland property when I was

probably about six or seven years old. So from that time on I was allowed to frolic and play in a natural environment.

And that to me is certainly a very important part of me being who I am and defining how I treat the environment and therefore want to protect it.

I just love that notion that you know, you protect what you love.

That's a natural instinct.

So I had that in me and that also increased exponentially as around the age of 10 I started

to get a bit more competent in the ocean.

So myself and my friends would go out on as many occasions as we could on weekends and spend hours upon hours learning how to ride, you know, boogie boards, bodyboards at first. And then that sort of progressed to really embracing it as a sport. And then it hasn't really stopped since.

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