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Speaker 1: Charities around the country reporting unprecedented demand for non food

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Speaker 1: aid cost of living pressures mounting, of course eighty two

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Speaker 1: percent of charity so demand for essential items things like

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Speaker 1: hygiene products, clothing, furniture, education supplies never been greater than

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Speaker 1: it is right now, and two point five billion dollars

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Speaker 1: of new and unsold household goods are being wasted and

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Speaker 1: sent to landfill every year. Let's meet the founder and

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Speaker 1: managing director of Good three sixty Australia, Allison Covington. Allison,

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Speaker 1: good morning, good morning, how are you all right? Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of money being a lot of goods,

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Speaker 1: a lot of value being chucked out and people could

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Speaker 1: use it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is quite concerning, isn't it that BIA started

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Speaker 2: Good three sixty just to match these spare and excess

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Speaker 2: goods to the hard working charities across Australia and of

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Speaker 2: course the bunderable Australians who need them more now than ever.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what things I mean? I've mentioned a few there,

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Speaker 1: but is that the sort of you know, furniture I

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Speaker 1: mentioned desks for kids to set out and do homework.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it is anything from furniture. It's hygenus clothing, toys,

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Speaker 2: it's all those essential items that people are really struggling

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Speaker 2: and going without. We work with Australiy leading brands to

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Speaker 2: make sure that they have a really easy way to

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Speaker 2: donate these goods. They donate them at scale, and then

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Speaker 2: we're able to get them out to charities around four

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Speaker 2: and a half thousand charities all across the country get

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Speaker 2: them into the hands of people who need them in

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Speaker 2: local communities.

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Speaker 1: All Right, the demand would never run out, would it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, even in good times, you'd probably need some

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Speaker 1: things and people not to throw away furniture, clothing that

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Speaker 1: is reasonably okay to donate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so demands are never going to run out. And

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Speaker 2: good you know, just don't sell through. So everybody's very

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Speaker 2: passionate about food waste, but all these other essential items.

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Speaker 2: You know, businesses have these goods they don't sell through.

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Speaker 2: So we've just set up assystem to make it really

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Speaker 2: easy for them to say that when they have these

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Speaker 2: goods with the charity that they can donate them to

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Speaker 2: so that they've got a way that they can get

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Speaker 2: them into the hands of people who need them at scale,

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Speaker 2: and then we can get them to the charities who

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Speaker 2: need them because often businesses don't know which charity needs

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Speaker 2: them in which area and which cause areas looking for

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Speaker 2: these goods. So we're just that simple way of making

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Speaker 2: sure that if a business does have these goods, we

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Speaker 2: know which charity actually needs those goods. And you know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes it's being disasters, people give the wrong things to

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Speaker 2: the wrong charity. You know, you just need a really

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Speaker 2: simple way of making sure the right people get the

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Speaker 2: goods when they need them.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Now you'd like to have items, I'm sure that

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Speaker 1: is in perfect condition as possible. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: practical or possible that is, but I'm sure that's what

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Speaker 1: you're looking for.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we do. Businesses are very generous. They're brand new,

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Speaker 2: they haven't been used. Sometimes they might be their sample

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Speaker 2: items on the floor, they have been their display models,

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Speaker 2: but a lot of the time they're absolutely brand new.

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Speaker 2: They just come to the end of the season and

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Speaker 2: they just didn't self through. People are receiving these with

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Speaker 2: you know, absolute dignity. They're still in their boxes, still

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Speaker 2: in their bags, still got tags on them, and they

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Speaker 2: bring hope and dignity to people when they're in just

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Speaker 2: challenging time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the important thing. So you're not after so

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Speaker 1: much the used couch that people might have.

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Speaker 2: No, it's about businesses been able to bring their brand

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Speaker 2: new goods. So we get them at scale, We get

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Speaker 2: you know, palettes and truckloads goods, and then we break

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Speaker 2: them down and get them into the quantities in those

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Speaker 2: local communities.

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Speaker 1: Have you found business being harder to deal with in

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years. I mean they're affected by

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Speaker 1: cost of living as much as anyone else.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so they are, they're facing really challenging times, but

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Speaker 2: they also go through cycles. We've seen in COVID that

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Speaker 2: you know, the stores were closed down so they weren't

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Speaker 2: able to trade, and then when they came apes to trade,

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Speaker 2: they had the wrong season stocks. So they were very

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Speaker 2: generous and able to donate that season stock to good

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Speaker 2: through sixty we were able to get that out into communities.

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Speaker 2: But you know, businesses in Australia are very generous even

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Speaker 2: though they're facing challenging times themselves. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, So if any business wants to get

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Speaker 1: in touch, how do they do that? Just Good three

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Speaker 1: sixty Australia.

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Speaker 2: Google, that's yeah, go to Good three sixty dot org

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Speaker 2: dot AU, go to our website and work with us

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Speaker 2: and then we'll get it out into your local community.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic, Alison, appreciate your time, Thank you, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Alison Covington, Founder and managing director, Good three sixty Australia.

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Speaker 1: What a good idea. So for businesses particularly who have

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Speaker 1: unsold items and you're thinking what do we do with

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Speaker 1: this just chuck it away, well get in touch and

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Speaker 1: see if they can use it. And they're looking for

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Speaker 1: all sorts of things clothing, furniture, education supplies, hygiene products

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Speaker 1: and a lot more as well, So anything you can

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Speaker 1: help with if you're in business, and that's sue they're targeting,

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Speaker 1: so they're not after the secondhand couch that's been out

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Speaker 1: in the TV room and the dog's been sleeping on

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Speaker 1: it or whatever. Don't need that. But for businesses with

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Speaker 1: good new product that hasn't been used, then Good three

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Speaker 1: sixty Australia want to hear from you.

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Speaker 2: A