Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast. This is the podcast for people looking to learn about

slow living in a fast-paced world. My name is Brooke McCallory. Thank you for joining us.

And my name is Ben McCallory, and this is episode 172 of our Plastic Free July episodes,

even though it's not quite July. Yeah, we want you to get prepared before Plastic Free July. And you know what, it's not quite July.

Yeah, we want you to get prepared before plastic-free July.

And you know what, it's not just July-specific.

This is just about reducing plastic use, I think that we can make changes on right now, plastic bags, take away coffee

cups, straws and drink bottles. This week we want to focus on products that we buy that come

wrapped in plastic. And I'm not necessarily talking about commercial products like crackers or chips

that come in a plastic bag, but I'm talking about things like when you go to the butcher and they used to use wax paper, now they use plastic, like basically a flat plastic bag.

Well, it's a plastic sheet and then a plastic bag.

That's correct. So you've got at least two layers of plastic on the meat when you go to the butcher or the fishmonger. You go and buy a loaf of bread, the bread comes in a plastic bag. Even if you go to like a bakehouse where the bread is sitting there not in plastic, they will put it in plastic and hand it over to you. Takeaway meals, sushi, things like punnets of berries at a farmer's market. Yeah, like your fruit and vegetables.

Already pre-packed.

Yeah, all those pre-packed blueberries.

Yeah, all that stuff.

You go to the deli, you buy some, you know, cheese that he cuts for you or some meat, whatever.

He will wrap that in plastic.

Same whether you go and buy a smoothies or a juice.

It comes in a plastic cup or a paper cup that's plastic lined with a plastic lid.

Yeah. So they're the things that we're going to look at today.

Again, it really is simply a matter of switching out.

You don't have to not get these things.

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