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Speaker 1: Change coming to the road. Sellyn District Council about to

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Speaker 1: trail a new rubber road surface, which is a first

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Speaker 1: for the country State Highway seventy seven's Glen Tunnel. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be using recycled rubber greenules. Now. Brad Piece

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Speaker 1: is the CEO of Treadlight New Zealand, Anders with us.

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Speaker 1: Brad Morning, Good morning Mike.

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Speaker 2: Have we taught me on the show but.

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Speaker 1: Not at all great pleasure we talked before because I've

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Speaker 1: done a number of interviews about this and I feel

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Speaker 1: that this has been on the bubble for a while.

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Speaker 1: Is that true?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it has in Mike, I know that you've certainly

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Speaker 2: had a chat with the Dale Rose and her team

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Speaker 2: from Thaiwise, the government stewardship that's been pushing this along

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Speaker 2: for fifteen years now, and now we've seemed to be

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Speaker 2: getting traction fantastically.

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Speaker 1: So the rubber is literally about to hit the road

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Speaker 1: one percent.

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Speaker 2: We've been working really hard on this. You know, we're

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Speaker 2: coming to your live from Cambridge, which is the heart

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Speaker 2: of innovation for New Zealand, and we've got a fantastic

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Speaker 2: team down here. We've invested, we're good to go. We're

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Speaker 2: taking away all the barriers to get it done.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so how much are you going to lay initially

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Speaker 1: and at what price? And how long does it last

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Speaker 1: compared with what we normally use.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've been working with a team down in

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Speaker 2: christ it. They've been fantastic. I think our visionaries down there,

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Speaker 2: they're looking at ways to it different the scientist and

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Speaker 2: you know, rubber and roads has been around for a

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Speaker 2: long long time globally and they've kind of grabbed it

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Speaker 2: down there and looking to do things differently. So when

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Speaker 2: they rub a road, when they put the rubber down

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Speaker 2: into the roads, they use about a ten percent mix

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Speaker 2: of rubber granule into it and that gives the road,

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Speaker 2: It makes it quieter, lasts about twenty percent longer, and

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Speaker 2: it's using a valuable resource that we're taking out a

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Speaker 2: landfills and giving another life.

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Speaker 1: So how long's the trial for? I mean, you put

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Speaker 1: a bit of road down west of Darfield, you see

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Speaker 1: it but works, assuming it does? Are we often running

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Speaker 1: all over the country or not?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we believe. So we've taken away all the barriers

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Speaker 2: that there's no reason why now the contractor shouldn't be

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Speaker 2: doing us. It's standard fear Australia, South Africa, the US,

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Speaker 2: Canada standard for here now. So this isn't new technology,

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Speaker 2: this is just New Zealand catching up.

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Speaker 1: We're just getting on with it, Brad PC. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: time very much. Brad PA, who's the CEO of tread

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