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. Thank you for joining us.

And my name is Ben McCallery and this is episode 176 and the last of our Plastic Free July Monday episodes.

It is.

So in this last episode, we're going to talk about soft plastic.

So food packaging, things like that.

It's all the plastic that, I guess it's like cling wrap and cling, you know, cling film yeah what you call it foil no foil is

different film yeah it's all those real soft plastics that i always when i when i get in the kitchen

i look at and go this is going to strangle some aquatic animal when it goes into the waterway.

And then I also seriously challenge, if we can recycle some plastics,

why can't we recycle this stuff?

It's a good question.

So War and Waste has an episode about this.

So major supermarkets in Australia have this soft plastics recycling initiative.

Initiative. So they have these bins in their supermarkets where people can put things like,

you know, your grey plastic shopping bags from the grocery shop and your chip wrappers,

chip packets and you buy a packet of biscuits and they come in like that foily,

plasticy kind of wrapping,

that can all be recycled.

What they discovered was a little bit disturbing, though, that not all of those initiatives

actually end up recycling.

At least one, like they dropped a GPS tracker into their soft plastics bags and put it

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