Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast Summer Series. This is the podcast all about slow living

in a fast world and thank you for joining us. I'm Brooke McCallory. My name is Ben McAllery and

welcome to the summer series episode four, I think we'll call it. Okay. I hope you're enjoying

you January, whether it's hot or cold or

something in between. Exactly. In this episode, you speak to your environmental role model. It's true,

I do. Mr. Tim Silverwood. This was way back in episode 181, back in July. July. So why has Tim featured in your summer series, particularly when I think most of the

conversation was sort of positioned around plastic-free July as sort of the campaign

that was going on at the time?

I think this conversation when we first had it, but even probably more so now, is really of the moment.

I feel like there is this huge rising, surging tide of awareness about ocean pollution and plastic use, particularly single-use plastics to a point where it's now unignorable.

I think it was an annoying reality a couple of years ago that people just pretended wasn't the case.

We thought, well, I don't throw litter on the ground.

I'm not part of the problem.

But work that people like Tim

and the Take 3 for the Sea crew and the people who founded Plastic Free July have been doing

for years and years and years has finally started to take root in just like the collective

consciousness, I think, and we just can't ignore it anymore. So I really

wanted to bring this episode back to the forefront, particularly this time of you, when we're

starting to think about making changes and how we want this year to be different previous

years, because I'd love to encourage you to really consider your plastic use in 2018.

I know we are, even though we're travelling,

we're going to some fairly great lengths

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