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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Reducing Waste: A Slow Living Deep-Dive

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Brooke talk about their efforts to reduce waste in their home. From food, to clothes, to cleaning Ben and Brooke talk about where they started out on their waste reduction journey and where they find themselves now. Brooke then catches up with Georgi from Season 4, who shares the fantastic project she's begun since they last spoke.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast.

0:03.4

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

0:09.4

My name is Brooke McCallory.

0:10.4

My name is Ben McCallery.

0:11.5

Welcome to episode three of our season five extravaganza.

0:16.5

Oh, it's an extravaganza now.

0:18.4

Yeah, it is.

0:18.8

It is.

0:20.2

And this episode, it's sort of like a natural progression, I guess, from the last episode

0:25.2

on stuff.

0:26.5

And it's about waste reduction.

0:29.8

Yes, it is.

0:30.6

We sort of touched on that a little bit at the end of last week's conversation.

0:35.0

But I think that, I mean, based on the requests from listeners about what they

0:40.0

want to know more of, these were two really quite separate sort of topics. And I think that

0:46.1

they just kind of come together well, as you said. And they follow one another pretty well as

0:51.0

stuff and then into the actual waste reduction of that stuff.

0:56.0

I agree.

0:56.9

Why don't we stop the intro and start the conversation?

1:01.8

Great.

1:02.5

I like that.

1:06.9

So one of the big questions you've been asked about this topic is where do you think the shift from simple living and decluttering starts to then reduce waste and thinking and being a bit more sustainable?

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