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Speaker 1: Ryan Bread.

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Speaker 2: Now I have an announcement, a very exciting announcement for

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Speaker 2: you this evening. I'm moving to Hoanganui. Do you know why?

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Speaker 2: It's all to do with their bins? Living in Auckland,

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Speaker 2: you're supposed to separate your food scraps from the general

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Speaker 2: trash then put them in a separate bin. And who

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Speaker 2: can be bothered with that? The answer is not many,

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Speaker 2: if any, Well, not in Hoanganui district, where the council

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Speaker 2: has just canceled plans to introduce food scrap bins because

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Speaker 2: they're expensive and unpopular. Who would have thought. Unfortunately for them,

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Speaker 2: they've already purchased nineteen thousand bins, so they are going

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Speaker 2: to have to throw the bins in the bin. Now

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Speaker 2: in Auckland, Hamilton and Totong and a bunch of other

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Speaker 2: councils around the country, they're still doing this. Of course.

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Speaker 2: Tanya Herman is Hamilton City Council's Operate and Maintain Unit

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Speaker 2: director and she's with me this evening. Hi Tanya, Hi.

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Speaker 1: Ryan, how are you good?

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Speaker 2: Thank you? So you guys have got is this? What

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Speaker 2: do people paying their rates in Hamilton for this?

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Speaker 1: So we general rubbish is rated differently, so it's part

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Speaker 1: of our general rates, so we don't have a targeted

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Speaker 1: So we budget thirty three dollars per in in per

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Speaker 1: household for our food scrap service.

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Speaker 2: Right, and how many households use the food scrap bin.

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Speaker 1: We've got about sixty three thousand households and we have

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Speaker 1: about forty percent of our households to use the bin regularly.

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Speaker 2: And does all do all of the households have to

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Speaker 2: pay the thirty three dollars even if they don't use

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Speaker 2: the bin.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's correct because it's all part of our suite

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Speaker 1: of services for rubbish and recycling.

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Speaker 2: But is that fair if you're not using the suite?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's an option to give to our households. What

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Speaker 1: we're aiming to do is reduce rubbish going to.

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Speaker 2: Lengthal So option implies sorry, Tana, just to stop you.

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Speaker 2: But option implies that you have the option to say no,

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Speaker 2: which they don't.

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Speaker 1: They don't know because it's part of our general rate,

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Speaker 1: and that rate covers a whole raft of our rubbish

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Speaker 1: and recycling services. That it's not broken down like a

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Speaker 1: targeted rate where you can opt in or opt out

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Speaker 1: of a targeted rate. This is a general so it

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Speaker 1: covers the whole range of services available for rubsh recycling.

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Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough, all right, So since you brought this in,

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Speaker 2: because the whole idea is that it will reduce carbon

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Speaker 2: emissions from landfill. So since this has been brought in,

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Speaker 2: what has the reduction being in carbon emissions from landfills?

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Speaker 1: So it's hard to quantify exactly how much that is,

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Speaker 1: but as an example, what we do know is that

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Speaker 1: we're diverting four hundred tons of food scraps per month

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Speaker 1: and that Tumilton normally from going to landfill, so does

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Speaker 1: in itself will have a positive impact.

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Speaker 2: But you must measure the carbon emissions that are coming

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Speaker 2: from landfills. Surely have they gone up or down?

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Speaker 1: We do, and as a region we do. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to calculate it specifically on food scraps alone because there's

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Speaker 1: a number of factors that have to be taken into

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Speaker 1: play in that calculation. But like I said, by having

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Speaker 1: four hundred tonnels of food scraps being diverted from landfill,

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Speaker 1: which creates me saying if it goes to landfill that's

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Speaker 1: having an impact or will be having an impact.

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Speaker 2: Surely you would know. I mean, Okay, here's a question,

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Speaker 2: regardless of what's happening with the food scraps, has carbon

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Speaker 2: emissions from landfills increased or decreased since you made this change.

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Speaker 1: It's our landfall specifically goes to Hampton Down, so it's

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Speaker 1: calculated across the Auckland and White Cuttle regions. So the

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Speaker 1: emissions are started. We are starting to see a decrease

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Speaker 1: across the board as a specific to Hamilton. I don't

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Speaker 1: I couldn't give you those exact figures.

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Speaker 2: All right, interesting, Tarnia, thank you very much for that.

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Speaker 2: Keep up the good work. I'm sure that we people

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Speaker 2: who won't agree, but that's the life of being in council,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. Tarnier Herman, who was the Hamilton City Council

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Speaker 2: Operate and Maintain Unit director. For more from Heather Duplessy

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