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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: A b.

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Speaker 3: Tea and our sustainability commentator Kate Hall is back for

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Speaker 3: the new year calder Kate. Hey Jack, Yeah, very good,

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Speaker 3: thank you, Yeah, really good. A little bit of outdoor time,

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Speaker 3: but of socializing, a little bit of time on couch,

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Speaker 3: on the couch with covid as well, but such as life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, the on the couch. I was on

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Speaker 2: the couch too, but with Billy, pregnancy, sickness of benge,

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Speaker 2: watching Modern Family, So I feel you.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well, as long as you can binge watch something

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Speaker 3: you know, you can make the most of that time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: So you're probably a bit like us then, haven't had

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Speaker 3: the wildest summer that you might have had otherwise. Anyway, Hey,

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Speaker 3: this morning you have for some really practical tips on

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Speaker 3: getting ready to go back to school in a sustainable way,

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Speaker 3: because it's one of those times that there's kind of

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Speaker 3: all sorts of demands for various bits and pieces that

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Speaker 3: you know, for the kids, and you want to be

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Speaker 3: as sustainable possible. So maybe you should start us off

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Speaker 3: with some of the things you can do at home

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Speaker 3: to be a bit more sustainable getting ready for school totally.

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Speaker 2: So one thing I love about CENTL back to school

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Speaker 2: tips is they're also financially sustainable because like, just between

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Speaker 2: uniforms and all the new things they get given us

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Speaker 2: a big list about stuff that they need to buy

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Speaker 2: and bring to school, it can be really overwhelming. So

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Speaker 2: my first tip is to start at home, literally by

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Speaker 2: shopping in your own home for things you already have.

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Speaker 2: So until you've done an actual stock take of you know,

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Speaker 2: things you've got left over from other kids or asked

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Speaker 2: your friends that have school leavers. Until you've done a

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Speaker 2: proper stock take of what actually already exists in your home,

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Speaker 2: don't go out to the shops or buy anything. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: look around. I do things like I actually even have

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Speaker 2: some school exercise books that I use just writing and

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Speaker 2: drawing and writing down notes. That are my old book

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Speaker 2: from school. Because it's still paper, it's still useful. You

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Speaker 2: can just take out the paper.

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Speaker 3: You're I mean, I know you're young, k, but you

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Speaker 3: have your school schoolbooks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I have a few.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's really it's pretty good at Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there are three of us kids and so yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: there's they're really good at saving. I mean it's paper, right,

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Speaker 2: even if the book's field, you can still yeah, use

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Speaker 2: it up. So yeah, shop around what you do have,

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Speaker 2: ask other people. Just be really conscious about using what

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Speaker 2: already exists. And if you do need to buy things,

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Speaker 2: I mean obviously there's always pencils, books or different things

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Speaker 2: that the school does require, shop at second hand stores.

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Speaker 2: So there's so much stationary at second hand stores. I

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Speaker 2: think often it's something we don't think about buying sick

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Speaker 2: and hands. There's even specific stationary kind of stores we

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Speaker 2: can find great high quality, brand new stuff. All Hat

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Speaker 2: stores is well In christ Church, Aucklan, Kokoe, Wellington, and

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Speaker 2: that's all kind of office supplies that have been redirected

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Speaker 2: from corporates. You don't need it or use it.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I've never heard of this. What's it called?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, All Heart store.

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Speaker 3: All Heart Store yep.

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Speaker 2: You can even get you know, office chairs, yeah, like

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Speaker 2: desks anything. It's really you know, every time you go

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Speaker 2: in there's all different stuff. But even your paper pens,

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Speaker 2: things like that, just because often officers have access and

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Speaker 2: then sending it to landfill. They're send it to Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I've never.

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Speaker 1: Heard of what a good idea?

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Speaker 3: What a good point of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so that's a good one obviously.

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Speaker 2: If you're thinking about reducing your plastic this year, you

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Speaker 2: can do that a two different ways. Plastic adhesive covers

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Speaker 2: I know that, you know, they can be something you

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Speaker 2: feel like you have to get, but I can pay you.

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Speaker 2: I've lived often without them, and you can do some

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Speaker 2: cooled d y like fabric covers things like that. Again,

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Speaker 2: working within the constraints of the school, right, because I

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Speaker 2: do know there's regulations and there's kind of must have

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Speaker 2: that every different school you know talks about. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: sometimes we can't do it all, but we can try

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Speaker 2: to do what we can, and that's kind of the

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Speaker 2: school stationary stuff. But there's also lunch boxes and food.

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Speaker 2: I think there's another big area we can focus on.

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Speaker 2: Places like beIN Too and Ninja have stainless steel, really

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Speaker 2: really good, high quality lunchboxes that will see your kids through.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that it's like a.

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Speaker 3: Been to a box, like a Japanese box.

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Speaker 2: Right, yes, yeah, yeah, that's where the kind of name

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Speaker 2: and the kind of main products come from. But they

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Speaker 2: have all sorts of stuff like, yeah, everything you kind

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Speaker 2: of need for for back to school lunches and investing

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Speaker 2: in that so literally your child can use that same

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Speaker 2: box at university one day potentially is a really really

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Speaker 2: good idea. And just thinking about what can I do

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Speaker 2: this year that you can just help improve the well

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Speaker 2: being of my child but also can reduce petrol things like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: maybe on Tuesday mornings, we're going to book to school.

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Speaker 2: Or I have a new friend down the road and

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Speaker 2: their kid goes to the same school, so I might

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Speaker 2: be a bit brave and just ask them if we

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Speaker 2: could couple and share that responsibility. So thinking about these

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Speaker 2: things now, I know school's going back very very soon,

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Speaker 2: but planning those things so you can set yourself up

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like getting the routine sorted early. It's a

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Speaker 3: kind of cliche obviously you're seting new habits in the

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Speaker 3: new year, but it is a really good opportunity because

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Speaker 3: because the school day and getting the kids to and

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Speaker 3: all their various stationary stuff, because that relies on routine,

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Speaker 3: it's actually just a great opportunity to try and see

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Speaker 3: a couple of new good habits around sustainability.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, especially while you have potentially hopefully if you've had

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Speaker 2: a relaxing summer a little bit more kind of energy

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Speaker 2: to do that. You know, it's it's somehow you may

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Speaker 2: have a bit more time and space to wrap your

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Speaker 2: head around change, because I know, I mean, just getting

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Speaker 2: kids after school is a big thing. So I know

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Speaker 2: it's a big ass to think about sustainability and the

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Speaker 2: environment when it comes to that. But guarantee you're going

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Speaker 2: to save money, and yeah, doing things like taking a

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Speaker 2: scooter taking a bike, you could will probably turn up

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Speaker 2: for school a whole lot happier as well. So all

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Speaker 2: these things kind of entertwined with a whole lot of

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Speaker 2: other benefits that I promise aren't just environmental.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hey can I can I ask you feeling a

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Speaker 3: little less queasy now?

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Speaker 2: Okay, yes, a lot less queezy.

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Speaker 3: If you any crazy crazy cravings or anything.

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Speaker 2: I am am obsessed with ice, Okay, yeah that's good.

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Speaker 3: I mean there's they're definitely crazy or no, this isn't

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Speaker 3: like strawberry milkshakes and olives or something.

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Speaker 2: No ice was everything is good.

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Speaker 3: Ice is very good. If you're feeling a bit nauseous

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Speaker 3: as well, this is very very good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that's kind of where it came from.

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Speaker 3: I'm pleased to hear you feeling a bit better, and

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Speaker 3: thank you so much for those tips. We'll make sure

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Speaker 2: Awesome.

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