He shared a statistic with us that changed my life forever, and it's the fact that the United States makes up only 5% of the world's population, but generates 40% of the world's waste.

Whoa.

Yes.

And that is when I realize, okay, there's something really off about our country in particular.

I don't know what's going on with our trash and where things are ending up. there's something really off about our country in particular.

I don't know what's going on with our trash and where things are ending up, but people really need to know about it.

And it's since then that I was pretty compelled to figure out what I could do to change the packaging industry and to also figure out how I myself as an individual could reduce my plastic consumption and also my

waste.

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast.

This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

My name is Brooke McCallory. My name is Ben McCallory. Welcome again to season two. We're into episode

six of who knows how many episodes. I'm going to say eight. We're going to say eight at this stage.

And so welcome,

welcome to this episode where Brooke is talking to the wonderful Christine Lou. Christine Lou.

Yes, from. So Christine is a, she's a blogger. You may, if you've been, you know,

reading in the space of zero waste sustainability blogging for a while, you may have known her as the blogger behind snapshots of simplicity, but she has recently changed her

website to simply by christine.com. And Christine not only is a fantastic blogger, really

educational and practical information about zero waste

living and sustainability, essentially, but she also makes videos for YouTube. She has a YouTube

channel, which I think is relatively uncommon still in that space, in our space of simple living and sustainability. I know

Christine and I spoke about it. She said there's quite a significant number of sustainable

fashion YouTubers and they are now beginning to really kind of find a crossover between that

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