[039] RECYCLE YOUR PADDLING POOL WITH WYATT & JACK

If you're anything like us the kids start to clamour for a paddling pool as soon as the weather gets above 18C and we have one sunny day, we get one, spend hours (and use lots of precious water) filling it, they play in it for about three seconds, and decide it's too cold, or the sun goes in. It then sits there collecting dead bugs and grass and leaves for a week or two, then somehow gets a puncture (which may or may not be related to the dog jumping into it) and starts a sad and slow decline. Leaving us with a swampy area on the lawn, sad children and a large amount of plastic destined for landfill.
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Until Wyatt & Jack launched their #inflatableamnesty!
​Wyatt & Jack are an amazing small business based in Ryde on the Isle of Wight that repurpose fabric from vintage deckchairs, bouncy castles, paddling pools and inflatables and turn them into gorgeous drool-worthy bags. So far they have saved somewhere between 80 and 90 tonnes of material from landfill - that's the equivalent to the weight of around 60 family cars!

In this episode, I'm chatting to Georgia, founder of Wyatt & Jack, about how the business came about, and how a tiny little one or two man band ended up working with the likes of the National Trust and Thomas Cook. Georgia shares her amazing story and her brilliant ethos and I love the passion and drive that she has behind not only Wyatt & Jack, but about repurposing and reusing. 

If you find yourself with a punctured bouncy castle, lilo or beach ball this year, then join in with the #inflatableamnesty and keep all that plastic out of landfill.

Enjoy!