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Speaker 1: Polystyring a massive problem. It's filling our landfill. Seventy seven

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Speaker 1: percent of it is not recycled. Construction sites, packaging, they

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Speaker 1: are the big problems. Four thousand tons of the stuff

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Speaker 1: ends up in a landfill every year. So the industry

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Speaker 1: Association done a couple of reports are calling for change.

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Speaker 1: This morning, Rachel Barker, CEO of Plastics in z with me.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning Ryan. So how big of a

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Speaker 1: problem is polystyring? You know, if you on a scale

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Speaker 1: of one to ten with our plastics problems.

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Speaker 2: At the moment, I probably put it about a five

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Speaker 2: to be honest, seven percent going to landfill is a

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Speaker 2: massive problem. But if you look at our general plastic

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Speaker 2: packaging waste, we're only hitting about nineteen percent recycling rates.

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Speaker 1: So what do we do? We just strolled in the bin.

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Speaker 1: So how do you get people to not throw it

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Speaker 1: in the bin?

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Speaker 2: Or there's a whole lot of different ways we've the

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Speaker 2: two reports we've done, one is on construction and demolition

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Speaker 2: plastics where we use EPs for insulation and structural building things,

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Speaker 2: those sorts of stuff. And then in the packaging space,

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Speaker 2: it's fairly essential for thermal protection when it comes to seafood,

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Speaker 2: making sure that that's safe to eat. An end product protection

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Speaker 2: lots of a product has huge environmental impacts in comparison

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Speaker 2: to the packaging that's been utilized to ship it. In

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Speaker 2: the packaging space, what we can do is implement products stewardship,

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Speaker 2: so make sure that people have a place that they

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Speaker 2: can take it back to or it gets collected and

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Speaker 2: then can get recycled and reused back into new products.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Rachel, interesting to have these two reports out

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Speaker 1: from you this morning. Really appreciate your time. Rachel Barker,

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Speaker 1: CEO of Plastics en Z.

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