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Speaker 1: Hither do for c Ellen, we will talk more about

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Speaker 1: this memoir. Oh, yes we will. Nine two nine two

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Speaker 1: is the text number. Standard texts fees apply. Now the

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Speaker 1: recycled police are coming for the good people of Katani. Hey,

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Speaker 1: these are the people who don't recycle properly. People caught

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Speaker 1: putting incorrect rubbish types in their yellow and green bins

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Speaker 1: now risk having them confiscated for three months because apparently

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Speaker 1: wrongly recycled items can make up as much as sixty

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Speaker 1: five percent of rubbish received. Nigel Clark is the manager

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Speaker 1: of Solid Waste at Fakatani District Council. Hey Nigel, Hello,

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Speaker 1: so why don't people want to recycle properly?

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Speaker 2: That's a good question. Basically, we put a lot of

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Speaker 2: education out to our communities. We have information on our websites,

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Speaker 2: you have leaflets, we have stickers on our bins and unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: well while the majority of people do the right thing,

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Speaker 2: there is a minority that just don't want to see it,

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Speaker 2: seems to want to put the life in the right bins.

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Speaker 2: And that's what this campaign is all about. It's all

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Speaker 2: about targeting that minorrative which unfortunately has a big effect

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Speaker 2: on our overall recycling and GREENWTE products.

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Speaker 1: I just wonder because we've talked about this a lot

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Speaker 1: on the show in the past few years. As you

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Speaker 1: can imagine, recyclings comes up pretty regularly, and this is

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Speaker 1: the thing that I don't understand. Why don't people want

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Speaker 1: to recycle properly?

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Speaker 2: Do you know? I really don't know, because it seems to.

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Speaker 1: Me, Nigel that if we're all having councils around the

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Speaker 1: country are having the same problem dealing with recidivists, then

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Speaker 1: maybe if we understand this thing, then that may be

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Speaker 1: the solution to fixing it.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, Yeah, well, I mean there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of research going you know, it's gone into this

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Speaker 2: to try and make people correctly it's yeah, and we

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Speaker 2: try to provide that education to help people recycle correctly,

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Speaker 2: but it is just that small minority that just don't

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Speaker 2: want to get on board.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So what are you going to do if

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Speaker 1: you take these bins away and people resort Presumably they're

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Speaker 1: just going to dump this stuff on the side of

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Speaker 1: the road or dump it in other people's bins, aren't they.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, we will only take away the offending bin.

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Speaker 2: So if for example, they don't use a recycling bink correctly. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know we will have given them before we take

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Speaker 2: a bin away, we will have given two warnings, so

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Speaker 2: it will occur on the slow tie, and if they

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Speaker 2: don't use the recycling bin, we'll just take away that.

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Speaker 2: They still have their general waist bin. Yeah, so they

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Speaker 2: can still get rid of their hich and they can

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Speaker 2: put all the rubbish in the general waste in or

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Speaker 2: they can take it to one of our resource recovery

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Speaker 2: centers pay to drop it off there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind of defeats the purpose of recycling, doesn't

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Speaker 1: it if it all just goes into the waistbin.

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Speaker 2: It does, unfortunately, But.

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Speaker 1: I suppose it's been to just contaminate that little bit

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Speaker 1: of recycling, then it is to contaminate everything.

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Speaker 2: It is, because it only takes a little bit of

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Speaker 2: contamination in the overall recycling to actually have a significant effect.

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Speaker 1: Did I read some way that you guys don't even

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Speaker 1: pick up from mudor padder at all?

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Speaker 2: No, we do. We do collect from there, but it's

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Speaker 2: it's not just the problem isn't specific to that township.

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Speaker 2: It is a district wide.

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Speaker 1: Let me read you this. Nigel says the facility will

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Speaker 1: not accept curb side recycling from mudor powder at all

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Speaker 1: because of the high level of contamination.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what we're doing currently at the moment when

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Speaker 2: we say facility, we're talking about material recovery facility, which

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Speaker 2: is where the recycling goes to be sorted into products

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Speaker 2: and basically the recycling that we're collecting from the curb

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Speaker 2: at our own resource recovery center and pre sort it

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Speaker 2: before we can actually send it send it to the material.

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Speaker 1: Because is it because it is so contaminated.

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Speaker 2: It is, Yes, what's going on in motor powder, We're

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Speaker 2: not sure. Really, it just happens to be what. It

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Speaker 1: Nigel, Thanks, I appreciate your time. Good luck with it.

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Speaker 1: As Nigel Clark, Solid Waste Manager at Fukathani District Council.

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Speaker 1: Do you know, I actually do want to know. I

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Speaker 1: think this is the heart of the problem. If someone

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Speaker 1: doesn't recycle and does this repeat repeatedly, right, if they're

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Speaker 1: a recidivius defender. Maybe what we need to understand is

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Speaker 1: why they don't recycle. I want to know why you

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Speaker 1: if you don't recycle, why don't you recycle? I want

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Speaker 1: to know this. Nine two nine two is the text number. Please.

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