1 00:00:07,173 --> 00:00:10,493 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast 2 00:00:10,613 --> 00:00:12,933 Speaker 1: from News Talks at B and. 3 00:00:12,933 --> 00:00:16,053 Speaker 2: Time to getch up with our sustainability expert Kate Hall 4 00:00:16,373 --> 00:00:17,813 Speaker 2: aka Ethically. 5 00:00:17,493 --> 00:00:19,653 Speaker 3: Kate hey k, good morning. 6 00:00:20,653 --> 00:00:23,093 Speaker 2: Okay, So this morning we're talking about how to set 7 00:00:23,173 --> 00:00:26,813 Speaker 2: up an efficient waste system in your home and I 8 00:00:26,853 --> 00:00:29,013 Speaker 2: had to pause for a moment and get out my 9 00:00:29,093 --> 00:00:31,413 Speaker 2: hand and count on my fingers how many different bins 10 00:00:31,493 --> 00:00:33,773 Speaker 2: we have at our place? So what would you say, 11 00:00:33,813 --> 00:00:34,973 Speaker 2: off the top of your head? Do you know how 12 00:00:35,013 --> 00:00:36,333 Speaker 2: many bins you've got at your place? 13 00:00:39,493 --> 00:00:39,693 Speaker 3: Yes? 14 00:00:39,973 --> 00:00:42,173 Speaker 2: Yep, and by this I mean like a rubbish bin, 15 00:00:43,253 --> 00:00:46,573 Speaker 2: you know, like a food scrape spin, different receptacles. Yeah, exactly. 16 00:00:46,733 --> 00:00:48,293 Speaker 2: So how many? How many have you got? 17 00:00:49,373 --> 00:00:49,693 Speaker 3: Five? 18 00:00:51,493 --> 00:00:52,253 Speaker 2: I've got four? 19 00:00:53,093 --> 00:00:53,373 Speaker 3: Four? 20 00:00:53,453 --> 00:00:57,533 Speaker 2: Oh okay, so I want to know are yeah? Okay, 21 00:00:57,573 --> 00:01:02,693 Speaker 2: so my four I've got your rubbish bin, recycling bin. Yep, 22 00:01:02,773 --> 00:01:07,693 Speaker 2: food scraps and soft plastics. Okay, I'm missing nice. 23 00:01:08,373 --> 00:01:11,253 Speaker 3: Yeah. So actually, now I think about that, I probably 24 00:01:11,253 --> 00:01:11,933 Speaker 3: have about. 25 00:01:11,693 --> 00:01:20,373 Speaker 2: Eight one bin off k. That's pretty decent. But okay, 26 00:01:21,453 --> 00:01:21,733 Speaker 2: well I. 27 00:01:21,653 --> 00:01:25,693 Speaker 3: Didn't do my accounting right yeah. So okay, so so 28 00:01:25,733 --> 00:01:30,173 Speaker 3: the ones you said yep? Great, So waste to landfill. Also, 29 00:01:30,813 --> 00:01:33,293 Speaker 3: I don't know if you've been lined, but mine isn't. 30 00:01:33,373 --> 00:01:36,493 Speaker 3: Because if you hear about all the different other binds 31 00:01:36,533 --> 00:01:38,573 Speaker 3: that I put stuff, you don't need a bindliner because 32 00:01:38,613 --> 00:01:44,813 Speaker 3: it's not we can work on that. Hey, it's good. 33 00:01:44,813 --> 00:01:47,293 Speaker 3: This is room for improvement. That's always true. 34 00:01:47,373 --> 00:01:47,973 Speaker 2: It's true. 35 00:01:48,133 --> 00:01:53,093 Speaker 3: Yeah. So yeah, rubbish bin recycling, and we know that 36 00:01:53,133 --> 00:01:56,293 Speaker 3: we can only put a number one too and five. 37 00:01:56,373 --> 00:01:59,453 Speaker 3: So that's your curb side recycling, right, So we have 38 00:01:59,653 --> 00:02:04,173 Speaker 3: different bins that we take to our local recycling center 39 00:02:04,653 --> 00:02:07,733 Speaker 3: because curb side only takes a certain amount of things. 40 00:02:08,133 --> 00:02:11,413 Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean that there's other things we probably 41 00:02:11,453 --> 00:02:14,093 Speaker 3: have in your life that you could take from your 42 00:02:14,133 --> 00:02:16,733 Speaker 3: waist bin and actually take them to a local recycling center. 43 00:02:17,533 --> 00:02:21,853 Speaker 3: So that's so that's that's so we've got waste recycling 44 00:02:22,213 --> 00:02:25,573 Speaker 3: compost as you know, soft classics, we have soft plastics 45 00:02:25,653 --> 00:02:29,293 Speaker 3: are getting clean and dry, and we now bend that 46 00:02:29,333 --> 00:02:32,013 Speaker 3: we take to the recycling center has all the lids. 47 00:02:32,093 --> 00:02:34,893 Speaker 3: So you can't put any lids into your curb side, 48 00:02:35,053 --> 00:02:38,933 Speaker 3: not even ice comin container lid, Nope, not a no 49 00:02:39,053 --> 00:02:43,053 Speaker 3: wine lids, no, you know the lid on your orange juice. 50 00:02:43,333 --> 00:02:47,053 Speaker 2: Not that container lid. 51 00:02:47,973 --> 00:02:49,173 Speaker 3: No, you can't know. 52 00:02:50,733 --> 00:02:53,133 Speaker 2: Like it's mainly just stuff you can't put in their A. 53 00:02:54,293 --> 00:02:57,173 Speaker 3: Yes, well, we have to think about the infrastructure that 54 00:02:58,333 --> 00:03:00,373 Speaker 3: I know it is. It is sad because we do 55 00:03:00,413 --> 00:03:03,413 Speaker 3: we have like hundreds of different materials and obviously we 56 00:03:03,453 --> 00:03:08,013 Speaker 3: can only recycle certain certain ones and useland but you 57 00:03:08,053 --> 00:03:11,533 Speaker 3: can't have so let's them because of ice cream container lid. Unfortunately, 58 00:03:11,533 --> 00:03:17,013 Speaker 3: the technology that the sorting recycling machines often recognize that 59 00:03:17,053 --> 00:03:20,413 Speaker 3: as paper and then it gets put into a you know, 60 00:03:20,453 --> 00:03:25,413 Speaker 3: the paper recycling and that contaminates a paper waste stream. 61 00:03:25,933 --> 00:03:28,013 Speaker 3: So that's why lids have been taken out because they 62 00:03:28,013 --> 00:03:31,093 Speaker 3: cause all sorts of issues with our sorting machinery. But 63 00:03:31,453 --> 00:03:34,493 Speaker 3: your local recycling center very likely all take them. So 64 00:03:35,413 --> 00:03:37,853 Speaker 3: we have a container for our lids. So there's a 65 00:03:37,933 --> 00:03:40,773 Speaker 3: you know, particularly yogurt that Tim loves, and there's this 66 00:03:41,573 --> 00:03:44,053 Speaker 3: medium sized black lids, so we have a lot of 67 00:03:44,053 --> 00:03:48,053 Speaker 3: those there, ye take them, So we did that yesterday, 68 00:03:48,053 --> 00:03:50,973 Speaker 3: actually went to our local recycling center. They often collect 69 00:03:51,013 --> 00:03:52,773 Speaker 3: soft pasticks too, so you can kind of take it 70 00:03:52,813 --> 00:03:53,613 Speaker 3: all at once. 71 00:03:54,293 --> 00:03:58,613 Speaker 2: With the soft place decks. Yes, come on, are they 72 00:03:58,653 --> 00:04:00,373 Speaker 2: are they going anywhere? That isn't a landsfill. 73 00:04:01,093 --> 00:04:04,493 Speaker 3: Well, I actually boycotted having a soft pest I've only 74 00:04:04,533 --> 00:04:07,693 Speaker 3: recently got a surf pestick recycling than at our house 75 00:04:07,853 --> 00:04:11,373 Speaker 3: because I realized that, actually, you know, we talk about 76 00:04:11,373 --> 00:04:14,893 Speaker 3: recycling way too much than it deserves credit for, because 77 00:04:14,933 --> 00:04:17,253 Speaker 3: we need to reduce it from the get go. So 78 00:04:17,333 --> 00:04:20,173 Speaker 3: I noticed that when I knew I had a self recycling, 79 00:04:20,293 --> 00:04:22,973 Speaker 3: you know, been at home, and yeah, it could be recycled, 80 00:04:23,013 --> 00:04:26,173 Speaker 3: and yes, future posts take them, turning them into fence 81 00:04:26,253 --> 00:04:30,093 Speaker 3: posts and use for different you know, vegiplanter beds and 82 00:04:30,133 --> 00:04:32,493 Speaker 3: stuff like that. But we need to reduce it from 83 00:04:32,533 --> 00:04:34,573 Speaker 3: the get go because we just have too much, you know. 84 00:04:35,133 --> 00:04:38,253 Speaker 3: So I noticed in my habits that I would be 85 00:04:38,293 --> 00:04:40,933 Speaker 3: at the supermarket and I would buy more things than 86 00:04:40,973 --> 00:04:44,133 Speaker 3: soft plastics. When I had a soft plastics bin, right, 87 00:04:44,213 --> 00:04:45,253 Speaker 3: you know, it was like. 88 00:04:47,253 --> 00:04:48,133 Speaker 2: To get it or something. 89 00:04:48,173 --> 00:04:52,653 Speaker 3: Eh, yeah, exactly. And so when I didn't collect myself plastics, 90 00:04:53,093 --> 00:04:56,173 Speaker 3: I would actually reduce my way. So sure then there'd 91 00:04:56,213 --> 00:04:59,453 Speaker 3: be more subspects going to landfill, but reduction is key. 92 00:04:59,533 --> 00:05:02,053 Speaker 3: So I kind of change I v on that recently, 93 00:05:02,133 --> 00:05:04,253 Speaker 3: but yeah, we'll see how it goes. But my other 94 00:05:04,613 --> 00:05:11,333 Speaker 3: interesting bins are one for clothing that just cannot be 95 00:05:11,613 --> 00:05:15,533 Speaker 3: reused or reworn or I kind of store that app 96 00:05:15,653 --> 00:05:19,453 Speaker 3: and I use it to stuff cushions or footstools. Yeah. 97 00:05:19,493 --> 00:05:22,293 Speaker 3: I made my parents a footstool actually stuff with actually 98 00:05:22,293 --> 00:05:26,133 Speaker 3: a lot of the clothes from my late grandmother's boardrobe 99 00:05:27,333 --> 00:05:32,093 Speaker 3: being but they often yeah I can, I kind of, yeah, 100 00:05:32,613 --> 00:05:34,533 Speaker 3: keep a little pile growing, and then I'll go and 101 00:05:34,693 --> 00:05:37,973 Speaker 3: stuff and kind of replump up their footstool so that 102 00:05:37,973 --> 00:05:43,373 Speaker 3: that helps. Batteries all there's been three fun I do 103 00:05:43,533 --> 00:05:46,653 Speaker 3: just a little. It's a little reciprocal and it takes 104 00:05:46,813 --> 00:05:50,493 Speaker 3: long to stock up because we were tragables from Pale 105 00:05:50,573 --> 00:05:53,413 Speaker 3: Blue now so we can plug those in and charge 106 00:05:53,453 --> 00:05:54,853 Speaker 3: them just with a micro usb. 107 00:05:56,013 --> 00:05:58,373 Speaker 2: I always just take mine up to Bunnings, you know, 108 00:05:59,573 --> 00:06:01,973 Speaker 2: because they've got them. Having a little ben's a good idea. 109 00:06:02,133 --> 00:06:04,973 Speaker 3: Yea, yes, you just have a little spot. But there 110 00:06:04,973 --> 00:06:07,933 Speaker 3: have been three rubber truck fires in our local area 111 00:06:07,933 --> 00:06:11,493 Speaker 3: and recently because people put batteries in their rubbish bin. Yeah, 112 00:06:11,533 --> 00:06:13,973 Speaker 3: so it's really a huge hazard of you know, it's 113 00:06:14,053 --> 00:06:17,813 Speaker 3: terrible environmentally, but yeah, so bat trees. I also have 114 00:06:18,053 --> 00:06:23,573 Speaker 3: a bend for my returnable items, for like my toothpaste 115 00:06:23,893 --> 00:06:27,653 Speaker 3: comes in a glass jar and I gather those in 116 00:06:27,733 --> 00:06:29,413 Speaker 3: a bind and then I can send them back to 117 00:06:29,573 --> 00:06:33,213 Speaker 3: solid roby them from and they will refill them. So 118 00:06:33,293 --> 00:06:36,413 Speaker 3: I kind of same with my makeup from last So 119 00:06:36,453 --> 00:06:39,253 Speaker 3: I kind of have is two bends for yeah, my 120 00:06:39,293 --> 00:06:42,093 Speaker 3: makeup empties and my toothpaste empties that once those of 121 00:06:42,133 --> 00:06:45,093 Speaker 3: them get filled, yeah, then I will send them back 122 00:06:45,093 --> 00:06:52,293 Speaker 3: to them. So yeah, batteries, the reusables, clothes, compast, soft plastics, 123 00:06:52,453 --> 00:06:56,133 Speaker 3: clib side recycling, local recycling, and rubbish. So that is 124 00:06:56,213 --> 00:06:57,973 Speaker 3: ace actually you win. 125 00:07:00,853 --> 00:07:05,453 Speaker 2: I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that is like 126 00:07:06,453 --> 00:07:08,973 Speaker 2: kind of seriously impressive. It's funny though, way Like I 127 00:07:09,013 --> 00:07:12,373 Speaker 2: think a key for people who are in households where 128 00:07:12,373 --> 00:07:14,613 Speaker 2: they're driving things is sometimes actually just making sure everyone's 129 00:07:14,653 --> 00:07:16,493 Speaker 2: on the same page. Like I reckon, if I went 130 00:07:16,533 --> 00:07:19,213 Speaker 2: home to my wife right now and I said, can 131 00:07:19,293 --> 00:07:22,693 Speaker 2: you recycle the lids from ice cream containers? And I'll 132 00:07:22,693 --> 00:07:24,413 Speaker 2: be honest with you, ours is a house that gets 133 00:07:24,413 --> 00:07:28,093 Speaker 2: through quite a bit of ice cream, I reckon, She 134 00:07:28,133 --> 00:07:30,253 Speaker 2: would say, yeah, of course you can. You know, it's 135 00:07:30,253 --> 00:07:31,773 Speaker 2: just one of the you know, stuff like that. Sometimes 136 00:07:31,773 --> 00:07:33,813 Speaker 2: you just think, oh, for sure, but actually actually making 137 00:07:33,813 --> 00:07:35,333 Speaker 2: sure that he runs on the same page with what 138 00:07:35,373 --> 00:07:38,293 Speaker 2: you can and can't recycle, throw away soft basics, all 139 00:07:38,293 --> 00:07:40,333 Speaker 2: that stuff and the right bens for things is kind 140 00:07:40,333 --> 00:07:40,733 Speaker 2: of vital. 141 00:07:40,973 --> 00:07:44,773 Speaker 3: Yes, label things have instructions. When someone comes into my 142 00:07:44,813 --> 00:07:46,573 Speaker 3: house and I know that they're new to my house 143 00:07:46,613 --> 00:07:48,333 Speaker 3: and they might be there for a little while, I 144 00:07:48,413 --> 00:07:51,653 Speaker 3: tell them about the diffrunaway streams. Yeah, because you know, 145 00:07:51,733 --> 00:07:54,133 Speaker 3: there's a talking point and they're clear, they know where 146 00:07:54,213 --> 00:07:59,133 Speaker 3: to push. It's like down, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is 147 00:07:59,173 --> 00:08:03,253 Speaker 3: the induction to my home. I'm so chatting about why 148 00:08:03,293 --> 00:08:05,773 Speaker 3: you're doing it too, and not just forcing your household 149 00:08:05,813 --> 00:08:09,253 Speaker 3: into it. Yeah, like having an open dialogue around hey, 150 00:08:09,253 --> 00:08:11,413 Speaker 3: what could we do to be better? And you know, yeah, 151 00:08:11,453 --> 00:08:12,133 Speaker 3: divert things. 152 00:08:12,413 --> 00:08:14,293 Speaker 2: That makes a lot of sense. Hey, thank you so much, Kate. 153 00:08:14,933 --> 00:08:18,013 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live 154 00:08:18,133 --> 00:08:20,933 Speaker 1: to News Talks ed B from nine am Saturday, or 155 00:08:21,013 --> 00:08:22,893 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.