#14 Cleaner Seas with Avril Greenaway

Avril Greenaway is my guest for Episode 14 of Breakfast & Beyond. Avril is a designer, community activist and entrepreneur, working within the ocean advocacy space.  Based in Bude in North Cornwall, Avril’s design work, combined with a love for being in, on and by the sea, has taken her on a fascinating journey focused on raising awareness of, and finding solutions for, the microplastic pollution that is having such a devastating impact on our waterways and ecosystems. Avril has been involved with the Cleaner Seas Project (a Bude-based community group) for 10 years, initially getting involved to create engaging campaigns to raise awareness of microplastic pollution but as you will hear, subsequently getting involved with everything from beach cleans to working with local businesses and hosting conferences.  More recently Avril has become a founding member of the Cleaner Seas Group, which was established with the intention of finding practical, scalable solutions for tackling microplastic pollution.  They are in the early and exciting stage of rolling out a microfibre filter for washing machines; did you know that approximately 91 million microfibres are released into our waterways through washing clothes by each household in the UK, each year? I didn’t until talking with Avril, and I hope you find this conversation as informative and engaging as I did. For breakfast with Avril we began with Roasted Rhubarb Overnight Oats and our second course was Asparagus & Lemon Filo Parcels.  Both of these recipes along with the producers and growers whose delicious food I cooked with, and more information about the themes we discuss, can be found via the Episode 14 web page. Thank you for listening, I’d love to know your thoughts on today’s episode.  Do join the conversation, you can email me tia@botelet.com or message via Instagram @breakfast_and_beyond Please do subscribe to the podcast, and I’d be so grateful if you could rate and review this episode, then share it with people in your network who you know would enjoy listening.  Thank you so much, welcome to the breakfast table …

Om Podcasten

In each episode of Breakfast & Beyond Tia Tamblyn welcomes a guest from within the Cornish community to talk, over breakfast, about the steps they are taking within their work and home lives to embrace sustainability. Through the series Tia's guests cover a broad range of topics from food to floristry, homewares, fashion, skincare, agriculture, wellbeing and much more. The conversations within this podcast are intended to inspire positive shifts towards a more sustainable lifestyle. Episodes are released at the end of each month taking us on a seasonal journey through the year. The breakfast Tia prepares for each guest is vegetarian, based on fantastic fresh produce sourced from within Cornwall. Tia shares recipes along with details of growers and producers, and information about her guest and the issues discussed, for those who wish to dig a little deeper into the episode themes. Find out all about the podcast, including links to episodes, via: www.tiatamblyn.com/podcast Please do subscribe to Breakfast & Beyond, and episodes will arrive you with as they are released.