Speaker 1: The Flex and Rooms Daily.
Speaker 2: Podcast, brought to you by Cana. Welcome back to the
Speaker 2: Flex and Froom Show. I am through me and I
Speaker 2: have a very special guest here on the show. If
Speaker 2: you follow me on Instagram, which many thanks, you'll see
Speaker 2: that I've recently become a recycling hero. I decided that
Speaker 2: I want to actually take recycling seriously. Might have been
Speaker 2: the cop twenty six or twenty seven twenty seven summit
Speaker 2: lit a fire on my ass and lit the planet
Speaker 2: on fire. So now I'm going to do my little bit.
Speaker 2: But I thought I need to get a bit of
Speaker 2: an education on recycling if I'm going to do it properly.
Speaker 2: So I have brought in a very special guest. Her
Speaker 2: name is Lottie. She has just won the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three Young Australian of the Year for New Southwales for
Speaker 2: New South Wales Award and she's in the studio and
Speaker 2: she's a recycling queen.
Speaker 1: Welcome, Thank you so much for having me. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited to be here. Yay, and so tell us what
Speaker 1: you do. So I'm a sustainability expert generally speaking, so
Speaker 1: kind of everything from composting to worm farms to reducing
Speaker 1: your waste in general, but a lot of that comes
Speaker 1: down to teaching people how to recycle properly. So I
Speaker 1: run Banish, which is an education platform but also an
Speaker 1: e commerce shop that kind of teaches people how to
Speaker 1: do the right thing when it comes to sustainability.
Speaker 2: How did you get into this?
Speaker 1: I actually said, a news resolution that actually worked. I
Speaker 1: never heard of right. No one ever gets in yet
Speaker 1: news resolution that actually does something. But I did set
Speaker 1: about ten other ones, like running a marathon and learning
Speaker 1: Spanish and all of these things that you'd never really
Speaker 1: pulled off. But one of them was to do better
Speaker 1: for the planet. And when I started doing this, this
Speaker 1: was four and a half years ago, it was so difficult,
Speaker 1: it was so confusing, it was overwhelming. I kept on
Speaker 1: getting like mixed messages that somebody'd be like do this,
Speaker 1: somebody else would be like this, and I just went, well,
Speaker 1: if we want living sustainably to be easy, it needs
Speaker 1: to be so easy that there's no reason not for
Speaker 1: people to actually like recycle right or compost or do whatever.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: It's going to be so easy that it's hard to
Speaker 2: not do it.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Like you literally look at the bin and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: of course, I just have to do this because right
Speaker 1: now we look at our recycling bins and you kind
Speaker 1: of go, oh, my gosh, there's so many different materials,
Speaker 1: there's so many different colored bins, Like where do I
Speaker 1: put everything? And it's just kind of scares people or
Speaker 1: they get kind of tripped up by greenwashing and then
Speaker 1: they kind of go, well, what's the point of even
Speaker 1: trying if I'm just gonna get it wrong anyway?
Speaker 2: Fully? Fully, So I put this on my Instagram. I said, everyone,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to recycle. I want to speak to an expert.
Speaker 2: Can you please put someone in my direction? And overwhelmingly
Speaker 2: everybody suggested you, and I thought, I've got to give
Speaker 2: back to the community. So I put a question box
Speaker 2: out there and I asked everyone to ask me questions
Speaker 2: that they want me to ask you great access, so
Speaker 2: I'm going to bring out some of the best ones.
Speaker 2: How Come you sometimes see both bins being accepted by
Speaker 2: the same.
Speaker 1: Truck, So this is if your yellow bin or your
Speaker 1: recycling bin is too contaminated, that's when you'll see them
Speaker 1: both going into the same place. So this means that
Speaker 1: that whole recycling bin, even if there was some things
Speaker 1: that were right in there. The garbage guys have looked
Speaker 1: at it and they've gone overwhelmingly, there's too much contamination
Speaker 1: in this bin. So that's why they've popped it into
Speaker 1: the land philbin. Because it's kind of like if you
Speaker 1: get a bad apple. If your recycling bin on the
Speaker 1: street is the bad apple and then you add it
Speaker 1: into your recycling bin with everybody else's right recycling, then
Speaker 1: it's going to like contaminate the rest of that garbage truck.
Speaker 1: So that's why they've kind of identified and go, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to pop this into our land fillbin.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay cool. What happens to our recycling once collected
Speaker 2: from our home bins?
Speaker 1: It really depends on what the material is, whereabouts you're located,
Speaker 1: everything like that. There is a waste export ban that
Speaker 1: has come into place in Australia which means that we
Speaker 1: cannot send a waste overseas, so it has to be
Speaker 1: processed on shore in Australia, which is really really exciting
Speaker 1: when it comes to the kind of the different materials.
Speaker 1: We're seeing a lot of kind of glass being remade
Speaker 1: into roads is probably the most common thing that's happening
Speaker 1: at the moment with your plastics, it really depends on
Speaker 1: the different types of plastics. So you've got your kind
Speaker 1: of plastic water bottles, which is a PET or a
Speaker 1: number one that is generally something that can be readily
Speaker 1: available and made into more plastic water bottles and more
Speaker 1: other materials like that. But it really depends on the
Speaker 1: different stream waste stream and where that's going to go.
Speaker 1: Because the hardest thing for me as an educator is
Speaker 1: that every single council in Australia has a different system.
Speaker 1: So whatever I say, if I say rooms you need
Speaker 1: to put this in your recycling bit at home, you
Speaker 1: could be at work and it could actually need to
Speaker 1: go into a different bin. You could go to your
Speaker 1: friend's place have to go into a different bin. So
Speaker 1: it's really really confusing. So we all need to individually
Speaker 1: look to our councils first to what can be recycled
Speaker 1: in each area.
Speaker 2: Why are they doing it all the same because.
Speaker 1: They have waste contracts with different businesses, So it's kind
Speaker 1: of like some people will have a contract with Busy
Speaker 1: or CLI in a way or Bingo, So it really
Speaker 1: depends which contractor your counsel has said yes to or
Speaker 1: your office place has said yes to, because then that
Speaker 1: recycler has its own set of rules on what it
Speaker 1: can and can't accept, and how do.
Speaker 2: They make those rules? Is it what's the most cost effective?
Speaker 1: Like is there Well, recycling's a business at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, and they want to be able to
Speaker 1: get the best quality material that they can actually turn
Speaker 1: into something. So that's what it comes down to. Is
Speaker 1: economics amazing?
Speaker 2: Okay? Is recycling in general just a waste of time
Speaker 2: to make us feel better? Is it actually helping?
Speaker 1: So I think that there's a couple of things to
Speaker 1: unpack with this question. I think if you are recycling
Speaker 1: for the feeling of like, oh I did the right thing.
Speaker 1: I'm buying this piece of plastic because I know that
Speaker 1: I can recycle it over buying something that's not packaged
Speaker 1: at all, then I would say that that's the completely
Speaker 1: wrong way to go about it, because recycling isn't the
Speaker 1: answer to our prayers. It's not going to save the world.
Speaker 1: Reduction is actually going to do it. So it's using
Speaker 1: less PLASII is actually the way to go forward. So
Speaker 1: I think that's probably what I would say, is that
Speaker 1: we're so obsessed with recycling in Australia because it gives
Speaker 1: you those happiness hormones. You put something in the recycling
Speaker 1: bin and you feel like you're saving the planet, where
Speaker 1: an actual fact not consuming anything is what's going to
Speaker 1: make the real difference. So I would say that that
Speaker 1: is one thing to definitely think about. But I would
Speaker 1: definitely say that recycling is worth it because we can
Speaker 1: actually recycle a lot of different materials in Australia. We're
Speaker 1: getting better and we're definitely not perfect, but aluminium is
Speaker 1: one that as Australians, we're great at recycling aluminium. The
Speaker 1: same with paper as well. Australia has one of the
Speaker 1: highest rates of recycling for paper in the world. So
Speaker 1: there's all of these really great stories that are coming
Speaker 1: out of it. But you go down, if you live
Speaker 1: in an apartment building, you go down to those bins.
Speaker 1: I do it myself, and I pretty much just want
Speaker 1: to cry because everybody's getting it wrong, and there's just
Speaker 1: so many simple little things that I'm like, why did
Speaker 1: you put all of your recycling that you sorted upstairs
Speaker 1: into a plastic bag and then put it into your
Speaker 1: recycling bin. I heard you guys talking about it the
Speaker 1: other day and I was like, it happens all the time.
Speaker 1: It's like all of that hard work for nothing. And
Speaker 1: I think if you're somebody who recycles, right, you look
Speaker 1: at these bins and you kind of go, well, why
Speaker 1: did I go to all of this effort? Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: So for me, I would definitely say it is worth it.
Speaker 1: It is worth separating it because if your bin is
Speaker 1: not one of the ones that's got that, you're too contaminated.
Speaker 1: If it does go into a recycling garbage truck to
Speaker 1: then go to a facility to be recycled, we need
Speaker 1: to reduce those contamination rates. So even if there is
Speaker 1: a bit of contamination from your neighbors, but you've done
Speaker 1: most of the things right, it does help in the
Speaker 1: scheme of things. And it doesn't mean that that whole
Speaker 1: bin is going to go to landfill, right.
Speaker 2: We want to keep the percentage up. It's like passing
Speaker 2: a test. Yes, what do people I ever say is
Speaker 2: do with recycling? Like I think in Japan they have
Speaker 2: a really interesting system.
Speaker 1: Japan has a great system. Sweden like they literally have
Speaker 1: to buy waste because they don't have enough of their
Speaker 1: own waste. It's ridiculus because they use kind of waste
Speaker 1: to energy a lot of the time, so then they
Speaker 1: don't actually have enough waste for them to turn into energy,
Speaker 1: so then they need to buy it from other countries.
Speaker 1: It's just ridiculous. Whereas Australia we're the fifth largest country
Speaker 1: in terms of waste that we create, but where the
Speaker 1: fifty fifth largest country in terms of population growth, So
Speaker 1: we create so much more waste than pretty much every
Speaker 1: single other country in the world. We just consume, consume, consume, consume,
Speaker 1: and we lean on things like our recycling systems to
Speaker 1: fix all of our problems rather than just kind of
Speaker 1: using what we've got at home or using less in general.
Speaker 2: God damn, we need to get more keep cups. I know.
Speaker 1: Please do not throw your coffee cups into the recycling bit.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's my biggest one. Every bloody time
Speaker 2: I see it so bad. What do the numbers on
Speaker 2: the triangle recycle symbol on stuff mean?
Speaker 1: So this is actually not a recycling triangle, it's a
Speaker 1: big myth. So what it actually is it's a plastic
Speaker 1: resist an identification code. So if you see on the
Speaker 1: bottom of a plastic bottle, it'll have a little triangle
Speaker 1: and then it'll have a number from one through seven
Speaker 1: to it, and it doesn't actually tell us whether something
Speaker 1: can be recycled or not. It just tells us what
Speaker 1: type of material that is. So back in the day
Speaker 1: we used to kind of see a lot of councils
Speaker 1: say kind of like one, two and four can go
Speaker 1: in your recycling bin. But they're actually moving away from
Speaker 1: this now because it's all about the different sizes and
Speaker 1: what council area you're in and all of these different things.
Speaker 1: So it's quite dated now to look for those resin codes. Also,
Speaker 1: those resin codes were never actually mandatory. There was something
Speaker 1: that was optional for people and for manufacturers, and often
Speaker 1: they do it just to kind of say, like we
Speaker 1: process this, that's why we put a number two on this.
Speaker 1: So now what we're encouraging people to do is look
Speaker 1: for the Australasian Recycling Label or the ARL and you'll
Speaker 1: see this one on the back of quite a few
Speaker 1: different products in your supermarket shelves. And what they do
Speaker 1: is it can be one of three different symbols and
Speaker 1: it'll be either like a little rubbish bin, it'll be
Speaker 1: a bl black recycling triangle or it'll be a recycling
Speaker 1: triangle that's white, The recycling triangle that's black means curbside,
Speaker 1: the little bin means landfill, and then the white Actually,
Speaker 1: the white triangle actually means kind of you need to
Speaker 1: do something extra in order for this to be recycled.
Speaker 1: So this could be like scrunch this aluminium foil into
Speaker 1: a ball, or that could be kind of I don't know,
Speaker 1: you need to take this to an ewaste recycler, or
Speaker 1: you need to do something like that. This is where
Speaker 1: we used to see the return to store for soft plastics,
Speaker 1: which is not available anymore, so that one we now
Speaker 1: need to see. If you see return to store, you
Speaker 1: just need to put it into your landfill bin. What
Speaker 1: happened with that? So pretty much coming back to recycling
Speaker 1: being all about a business and all about like economics,
Speaker 1: we during COVID and the pandemic, we all started using
Speaker 1: so much more soft plastics than ever before, so the
Speaker 1: demand for this service went up by three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty percent, so we were seeing so for example, a
Speaker 1: Cosmal West store used to have kind of one red
Speaker 1: cycle bit at the front of the store that would
Speaker 1: you be empty today it went up to fifteen bins
Speaker 1: a day, so that's how much it kind of increased
Speaker 1: the demand for this program. But then at the other hand,
Speaker 1: the way that recycling works, like the true recycler is
Speaker 1: actually the person that buys something made from recycling materials,
Speaker 1: and for soft plastics in Australia, we don't have enough
Speaker 1: companies who are actually buying that waste to turn it
Speaker 1: into something. Soft plastics they're not a very high quality product.
Speaker 1: They've often got a lot of labels on them and
Speaker 1: things like that's their costly to process. They get made
Speaker 1: into pretty low quality items like rappers and cling films
Speaker 1: and things like that. So there were all of these
Speaker 1: people recycling, and then there was no one actually buying
Speaker 1: that waste to actually turn it into something else. So
Speaker 1: this company started stockpiling it going hopefully somebody will come
Speaker 1: along and buy this to then turn it into something
Speaker 1: and it just kept on piling up and piling up,
Speaker 1: and the increase, and everyone else was kind of going
Speaker 1: soft plastic recycling, recycling, recycling, and nobody was actually buying
Speaker 1: that waste. And then that big article came out last
Speaker 1: week exposing them and they pretty much had to say, yes,
Speaker 1: we need to pause this whilst we get on top
Speaker 1: of it, whilst we find somebody else to actually purchase
Speaker 1: this material to then turn it into something else.
Speaker 2: Oh, dear god, it's just a shish morphin exactly.
Speaker 1: And it was so sad because so many people have
Speaker 1: been trusting in the system. People were like peking their
Speaker 1: soft plastics on the clothesline to let it dry so
Speaker 1: then take it into their store. And it was so
Speaker 1: disappointing and so heartbreaking, and everybody was kind of trusting
Speaker 1: the system, and I completely get why everybody was so
Speaker 1: pissed off and devastated. And then it now shines this
Speaker 1: terrible light on the rest of the recycling system and
Speaker 1: everyone's going, well, does it actually get recycled? Why are
Speaker 1: we doing this? What's going on? And it just happened
Speaker 1: to coincide with National Recycling We.
Speaker 2: Oh, did it really?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an inside job. It was awful.
Speaker 2: So I like the thing that I've got that is
Speaker 2: positive out of this conversation is that we should look
Speaker 2: to buy products that are made out of recycling materials
Speaker 2: and where we can, don't buy more plastic.
Speaker 1: Yesatistic, yeah you get one hundred percent, Thank you, queen.
Speaker 2: I use a toothbrush made out of recycled stuff. I
Speaker 2: got it from Woolwords. I think great And anyway, I
Speaker 2: won't tell you all the other ways that I'm amazing. Instead,
Speaker 2: I want to play a game with you, which is
Speaker 2: that I brought in a whole bunch of waste from
Speaker 2: my house and I want you to tell me what
Speaker 2: is recyclable great and what is not?
Speaker 1: I love this. I play this every week on Instagram
Speaker 1: on Wednesdays. Yet it's called bingo which bin does each
Speaker 1: item go in? So we're just doing like a radio
Speaker 1: version of that.
Speaker 2: Oh my gos, I didn't even know that amazing. You'll
Speaker 2: see here I have a yellow bag from Fluff. This
Speaker 2: is a cosmetic company that do like sustainable vegan products.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure they gave me this bag. Okay, first item, polystyrene?
Speaker 1: Hell no, why not? Do not get that anywhere near
Speaker 1: your recycling bin. It is so difficult to recycle in
Speaker 1: Australia's actually being banned completely because it is so problematic
Speaker 1: because if you think about it, like think about a beanbag,
Speaker 1: if you put that into your recycling bin, it kind
Speaker 1: of breaks down and it crumbles and it creates this
Speaker 1: snow that then goes all throughout the recycling trucks and
Speaker 1: then it's just virtually impossible for us to actually then
Speaker 1: retrieve it and then recycle it. Also, if you think
Speaker 1: about a recycling conveyor belt that's so lightweight, it's gonna
Speaker 1: fly off and ping off somewhere and hit somebody in
Speaker 1: the head and then won't hurt them, but it won't
Speaker 1: be recycled at all. There are a couple of councils
Speaker 1: in Sydney that do actually accept these that they're hard
Speaker 1: to recycle days. But you'll need to look them up again.
Speaker 1: Feel local councils to see what they do. But generally speaking,
Speaker 1: get it right away.
Speaker 2: This package that I got from Australia Post, it's a
Speaker 2: cardboard box but it's got the label from O's Post
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 1: Yes, So with this one, what I would do is
Speaker 1: I would separate them and I would put the box
Speaker 1: into your recycling bin and then that little label into
Speaker 1: your landfillm Can.
Speaker 2: The box have any plastic on it whatsoever?
Speaker 1: You can have a little bit like wrapping paper for example,
Speaker 1: can have a little bit if you have an envelope
Speaker 1: that has a little plastic window that can go into
Speaker 1: your recycling bin as is, that's fine, but you don't
Speaker 1: want to like coat it in sticky tape and then
Speaker 1: pop that into your recycling.
Speaker 2: I always wanted like side trying and separate the envelope,
Speaker 2: like cut the plastic out.
Speaker 1: No need, you're trying too hard on it.
Speaker 2: This it is a plastic container that I got, like
Speaker 2: a tray that you get meat.
Speaker 1: Can meat tray. I would say recycle that one.
Speaker 2: Even though like what percentage of little plastic bit, Like.
Speaker 1: That's small enough that it would be fine, but if
Speaker 1: it's still got the flappy piece of plastic on it,
Speaker 1: you need to separate that. Like the film. You need
Speaker 1: to separate the film from the tray itself.
Speaker 2: This purple wrapping paper stuffing kind of stuff that they
Speaker 2: got in a pr.
Speaker 1: Boxsue tissue, paint tissue paper recycling. Also, if you've got
Speaker 1: compost bins, you can pop that in compost bins as well. Sick.
Speaker 2: Okay, I need to get one of those, but I
Speaker 2: live in an apartment and I don't want worms in
Speaker 2: my apartment.
Speaker 1: Everyone loves word. But you could download the share waste app,
Speaker 1: and that is an app that connects you with your
Speaker 1: neighbors who have got a compost bin and want your
Speaker 1: compost it's amazing. So for example, I've got a compost
Speaker 1: bin and a worm farm, and then I have all
Speaker 1: of these random people that pop over and drop off
Speaker 1: their food waste and food scraps to my house. And
Speaker 1: what's good about compost it is about forty percent of
Speaker 1: your actual household bin is made up of things that
Speaker 1: could go into your compost bin. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: one of the simplest ways to completely remove forty percent
Speaker 1: of your waist from your household. But also when things
Speaker 1: like banana peels and stuff like that go to landfill,
Speaker 1: they cook and they create this methane gas, which is
Speaker 1: a greenhouse gas. Horrible bananas, anything any kind of organic
Speaker 1: matter kind of sits next to your plastics and everything
Speaker 1: else like that, and it just creates all of these
Speaker 1: greenhouse gas emissions.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. And where can I put my compost
Speaker 2: bin just outside? I can't have one in my house.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You could have like a small little kitchen one for example,
Speaker 1: that sits a new bench, and that kind of takes
Speaker 1: about three or four keyl waste, i'd say, and then
Speaker 1: you need to pop it. Then you need to pop
Speaker 1: it into a big compost bin. Or we're starting to
Speaker 1: see a lot of councils roll out Fogo, which is
Speaker 1: food and organics recycling, where in your green bin you
Speaker 1: pop in all of your food scraps.
Speaker 2: And what do you do with the compost wants the
Speaker 2: bin's full outside.
Speaker 1: Outside, So then it creates this amazing organic, natural fertilizer
Speaker 1: which you could use on your indoor plants. Literally, people
Speaker 1: line up at Bunnings to pay bucket loads of money
Speaker 1: for fertilizer where you can be creating your own at home,
Speaker 1: and it regenerates the soil in much better way than
Speaker 1: any other storeboard compost. Huge I'm going to go buy
Speaker 1: a little bin this recycling, even with the plastic film
Speaker 1: on it, even with the plastic film on it, even
Speaker 1: with the lid on. So what I would recommend is,
Speaker 1: this is a milk bottle, And what I would do
Speaker 1: is I would squish it down and then screw it
Speaker 1: on because otherwise it's just taking up more space in
Speaker 1: rubbish truck bins.
Speaker 2: This is a bottle of milk ready, Yeah you know
Speaker 2: it stinks like rancid or milk.
Speaker 1: A receipt, No receipts aren't actually paper. They're made from
Speaker 1: a thermal plastic. So if you kind of get the
Speaker 1: back of your nail and you scrape along the back,
Speaker 1: you'll see that it makes like a bit of an
Speaker 1: indent from the from the pressure, and that means that
Speaker 1: it's made from plastic. So you cannot actually go into
Speaker 1: your recycling bin.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, David Jones, this blueberry punnet recycling. So
Speaker 2: pretty much, if you squish something and it pops out
Speaker 2: back into the shape that it originally was, it's generally speaking,
Speaker 2: could go into your curb side recycling bin. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: This Latin lacan if it's empty, aerosols can go into
Speaker 2: your recycling bin. This makeup packaging container no paper in.
Speaker 1: It, So this is too small to go into your
Speaker 1: curb side recycling bin. I would say, generally speaking, we
Speaker 1: need items to be over one hundred mills to go
Speaker 1: into your recycling bin, or they need to be bigger
Speaker 1: than the size of a credit card. That one's kind
Speaker 1: of like on the cusp, I would say, of being
Speaker 1: able to go into your curb side recycling bin or not.
Speaker 1: But if it's smaller than that, like a little travel
Speaker 1: shampoo or something like that, then it can't go into
Speaker 1: your curb side recycling bin.
Speaker 2: I can't put this into the recycling but I can
Speaker 2: put like a hand pump soap that's completely So.
Speaker 1: You can't put the pump, but you could put the base.
Speaker 1: Because if you think about a pump, if you were
Speaker 1: like to be a scientist and take everything apart, there
Speaker 1: is a wire spring and then you've got a couple
Speaker 1: of different types of plastic. So the way that recycling
Speaker 1: works is when it goes to the actual recycling facilities,
Speaker 1: they split everything into the different types of plastic. So
Speaker 1: that's when they use those plastic resin codes and they
Speaker 1: go ones, here's two's here, everything like that. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to all of these e code called comingled materials,
Speaker 1: so there's multiple different things in them, like a blush
Speaker 1: palette for example, you're gonna have a mirror, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have plastic. All of these things too hard for your
Speaker 1: curb side recycling.
Speaker 2: So you can bring it back to the supply usually
Speaker 2: Mecca Sephora exactly.
Speaker 1: And then we actually Banish actually runs a hard to
Speaker 1: recycle recycling program called BRAD which is all about diverting
Speaker 1: all of this so you can post it in so
Speaker 1: for people in rural areas who don't have access to
Speaker 1: a mecca, they can just post it back to us
Speaker 1: and we'll recycle it. This laptop cover, is that made
Speaker 1: from like a near prene or something like that. I
Speaker 1: would say that's going to be landfill.
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry? This is tomato paste in a little tube,
Speaker 2: in an aluminium tube, I believe.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would say that you could curbside recycle that.
Speaker 2: Though. Why it says metal recycles forever? Who aluminium?
Speaker 1: Ah? This coat hanger?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Why because look at the shape of that, Like, if
Speaker 1: that's going to go through some kind of machine, it's
Speaker 1: just going to get caught up. It's just going to
Speaker 1: get all messed up through that. So metal coat hangers,
Speaker 1: plastic coat hangers, cutlery, no, just too weird and wacky
Speaker 1: for the machines to actually process.
Speaker 2: This scrunch shop ball of aluminium.
Speaker 1: That's a very nice ball of aluminium. So that is
Speaker 1: a yes, anything bigger then probably a golf ball. I'd
Speaker 1: probably go for a tennis ball if I were you,
Speaker 1: because they're bigger the better.
Speaker 2: This bottle with a little hard cap on it.
Speaker 1: Is it glass? This is glass? Yes? So that can
Speaker 1: go in your curb side recycling makeup wipe No, and
Speaker 1: do not flush those down the toilet as well. They
Speaker 1: just clog up everything. So landfill Q.
Speaker 2: Tip with my ear wax on it.
Speaker 1: No, pop that into your nobody wants that. I'll put
Speaker 1: it back in the bag. And finally blister packs. Blister
Speaker 1: packs so this is again something that we actually recycle
Speaker 1: with Brad the hard to recycle program. But this is
Speaker 1: way too lightweight for your actual curb side recycling bin,
Speaker 1: so it needs to go to a specialty program.
Speaker 2: And finally tissues, no need to.
Speaker 1: Go into landfill. Like, nobody wants your snotty tissues. They're
Speaker 1: not going to turn that into anything. They can't make
Speaker 1: a new material from snot.
Speaker 2: Pizza boxes with grease on them.
Speaker 1: Some councils will say yes to curbside recycling, others will
Speaker 1: say pop them into your organics recycling.
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