WEBVTT - Here’s What You Can & Can’t Recycle ♻️ 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:02.560 The Flex and Rooms Daily. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:06.200 Podcast, brought to you by Cana. Welcome back to the 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:08.039 Flex and Froom Show. I am through me and I 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.600 have a very special guest here on the show. If 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.840 you follow me on Instagram, which many thanks, you'll see 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.119 that I've recently become a recycling hero. I decided that 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.080 I want to actually take recycling seriously. Might have been 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.680 the cop twenty six or twenty seven twenty seven summit 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.960 lit a fire on my ass and lit the planet 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.080 on fire. So now I'm going to do my little bit. 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.240 But I thought I need to get a bit of 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.120 an education on recycling if I'm going to do it properly. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.519 So I have brought in a very special guest. Her 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.240 name is Lottie. She has just won the twenty twenty 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.600 three Young Australian of the Year for New Southwales for 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.839 New South Wales Award and she's in the studio and 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:49.960 she's a recycling queen. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.640 Welcome, Thank you so much for having me. I'm so 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:56.040 excited to be here. Yay, and so tell us what 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.240 you do. So I'm a sustainability expert generally speaking, so 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.400 kind of everything from composting to worm farms to reducing 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.040 your waste in general, but a lot of that comes 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.039 down to teaching people how to recycle properly. So I 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.960 run Banish, which is an education platform but also an 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.880 e commerce shop that kind of teaches people how to 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.240 do the right thing when it comes to sustainability. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:18.560 How did you get into this? 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:23.520 I actually said, a news resolution that actually worked. I 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.320 never heard of right. No one ever gets in yet 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.080 news resolution that actually does something. But I did set 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.640 about ten other ones, like running a marathon and learning 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.839 Spanish and all of these things that you'd never really 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.319 pulled off. But one of them was to do better 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.160 for the planet. And when I started doing this, this 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.000 was four and a half years ago, it was so difficult, 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.760 it was so confusing, it was overwhelming. I kept on 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.120 getting like mixed messages that somebody'd be like do this, 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.640 somebody else would be like this, and I just went, well, 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.920 if we want living sustainably to be easy, it needs 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.560 to be so easy that there's no reason not for 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.360 people to actually like recycle right or compost or do whatever. 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:01.680 I love that. 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.560 It's going to be so easy that it's hard to 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:05.160 not do it. 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.440 Exactly, Like you literally look at the bin and you're like, oh, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.360 of course, I just have to do this because right 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.320 now we look at our recycling bins and you kind 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.680 of go, oh, my gosh, there's so many different materials, 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.680 there's so many different colored bins, Like where do I 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.600 put everything? And it's just kind of scares people or 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.160 they get kind of tripped up by greenwashing and then 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:23.760 they kind of go, well, what's the point of even 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.480 trying if I'm just gonna get it wrong anyway? 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:30.880 Fully? Fully, So I put this on my Instagram. I said, everyone, 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.000 I'm trying to recycle. I want to speak to an expert. 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.000 Can you please put someone in my direction? And overwhelmingly 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.640 everybody suggested you, and I thought, I've got to give 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.520 back to the community. So I put a question box 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.320 out there and I asked everyone to ask me questions 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.720 that they want me to ask you great access, so 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.400 I'm going to bring out some of the best ones. 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.880 How Come you sometimes see both bins being accepted by 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:53.480 the same. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.280 Truck, So this is if your yellow bin or your 0:02:56.400 --> 0:03:00.200 recycling bin is too contaminated, that's when you'll see them 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.400 both going into the same place. So this means that 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.800 that whole recycling bin, even if there was some things 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.440 that were right in there. The garbage guys have looked 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:13.000 at it and they've gone overwhelmingly, there's too much contamination 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.200 in this bin. So that's why they've popped it into 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.640 the land philbin. Because it's kind of like if you 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.959 get a bad apple. If your recycling bin on the 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:22.920 street is the bad apple and then you add it 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:27.120 into your recycling bin with everybody else's right recycling, then 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.840 it's going to like contaminate the rest of that garbage truck. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.160 So that's why they've kind of identified and go, Okay, 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.120 we're going to pop this into our land fillbin. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.360 Wow, okay cool. What happens to our recycling once collected 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:40.320 from our home bins? 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:45.440 It really depends on what the material is, whereabouts you're located, 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.320 everything like that. There is a waste export ban that 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.960 has come into place in Australia which means that we 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.400 cannot send a waste overseas, so it has to be 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.600 processed on shore in Australia, which is really really exciting 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.080 when it comes to the kind of the different materials. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.240 We're seeing a lot of kind of glass being remade 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.880 into roads is probably the most common thing that's happening 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.800 at the moment with your plastics, it really depends on 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.400 the different types of plastics. So you've got your kind 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.000 of plastic water bottles, which is a PET or a 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.760 number one that is generally something that can be readily 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.160 available and made into more plastic water bottles and more 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.120 other materials like that. But it really depends on the 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.120 different stream waste stream and where that's going to go. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.159 Because the hardest thing for me as an educator is 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:33.159 that every single council in Australia has a different system. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.120 So whatever I say, if I say rooms you need 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.680 to put this in your recycling bit at home, you 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.760 could be at work and it could actually need to 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.279 go into a different bin. You could go to your 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.440 friend's place have to go into a different bin. So 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.280 it's really really confusing. So we all need to individually 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.520 look to our councils first to what can be recycled 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:51.360 in each area. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.839 Why are they doing it all the same because. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.600 They have waste contracts with different businesses, So it's kind 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.560 of like some people will have a contract with Busy 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.000 or CLI in a way or Bingo, So it really 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:06.840 depends which contractor your counsel has said yes to or 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.359 your office place has said yes to, because then that 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.960 recycler has its own set of rules on what it 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.240 can and can't accept, and how do. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.799 They make those rules? Is it what's the most cost effective? 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.560 Like is there Well, recycling's a business at the end 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.360 of the day, and they want to be able to 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.760 get the best quality material that they can actually turn 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.279 into something. So that's what it comes down to. Is 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.360 economics amazing? 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.080 Okay? Is recycling in general just a waste of time 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.640 to make us feel better? Is it actually helping? 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.479 So I think that there's a couple of things to 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.240 unpack with this question. I think if you are recycling 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.240 for the feeling of like, oh I did the right thing. 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.479 I'm buying this piece of plastic because I know that 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.840 I can recycle it over buying something that's not packaged 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.200 at all, then I would say that that's the completely 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.800 wrong way to go about it, because recycling isn't the 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.279 answer to our prayers. It's not going to save the world. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.040 Reduction is actually going to do it. So it's using 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.200 less PLASII is actually the way to go forward. So 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.840 I think that's probably what I would say, is that 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:09.000 we're so obsessed with recycling in Australia because it gives 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.880 you those happiness hormones. You put something in the recycling 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.159 bin and you feel like you're saving the planet, where 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.400 an actual fact not consuming anything is what's going to 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.880 make the real difference. So I would say that that 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.880 is one thing to definitely think about. But I would 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.240 definitely say that recycling is worth it because we can 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:30.000 actually recycle a lot of different materials in Australia. We're 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.360 getting better and we're definitely not perfect, but aluminium is 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:37.200 one that as Australians, we're great at recycling aluminium. The 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.720 same with paper as well. Australia has one of the 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.000 highest rates of recycling for paper in the world. So 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.240 there's all of these really great stories that are coming 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.200 out of it. But you go down, if you live 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.200 in an apartment building, you go down to those bins. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:50.960 I do it myself, and I pretty much just want 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.039 to cry because everybody's getting it wrong, and there's just 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.240 so many simple little things that I'm like, why did 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.880 you put all of your recycling that you sorted upstairs 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.640 into a plastic bag and then put it into your 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.480 recycling bin. I heard you guys talking about it the 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.159 other day and I was like, it happens all the time. 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.640 It's like all of that hard work for nothing. And 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.240 I think if you're somebody who recycles, right, you look 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:12.960 at these bins and you kind of go, well, why 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.680 did I go to all of this effort? Yeah, exactly, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.000 So for me, I would definitely say it is worth it. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.200 It is worth separating it because if your bin is 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.680 not one of the ones that's got that, you're too contaminated. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.360 If it does go into a recycling garbage truck to 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.480 then go to a facility to be recycled, we need 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.040 to reduce those contamination rates. So even if there is 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.560 a bit of contamination from your neighbors, but you've done 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.760 most of the things right, it does help in the 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.160 scheme of things. And it doesn't mean that that whole 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.560 bin is going to go to landfill, right. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.559 We want to keep the percentage up. It's like passing 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.920 a test. Yes, what do people I ever say is 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.000 do with recycling? Like I think in Japan they have 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:52.200 a really interesting system. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.400 Japan has a great system. Sweden like they literally have 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.160 to buy waste because they don't have enough of their 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:02.040 own waste. It's ridiculus because they use kind of waste 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.520 to energy a lot of the time, so then they 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.160 don't actually have enough waste for them to turn into energy, 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.680 so then they need to buy it from other countries. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.400 It's just ridiculous. Whereas Australia we're the fifth largest country 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.880 in terms of waste that we create, but where the 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:20.040 fifty fifth largest country in terms of population growth, So 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:24.320 we create so much more waste than pretty much every 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:29.720 single other country in the world. We just consume, consume, consume, consume, 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.480 and we lean on things like our recycling systems to 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.880 fix all of our problems rather than just kind of 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.680 using what we've got at home or using less in general. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.320 God damn, we need to get more keep cups. I know. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.959 Please do not throw your coffee cups into the recycling bit. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.679 Oh my god, that's my biggest one. Every bloody time 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.880 I see it so bad. What do the numbers on 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.600 the triangle recycle symbol on stuff mean? 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.040 So this is actually not a recycling triangle, it's a 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.640 big myth. So what it actually is it's a plastic 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.760 resist an identification code. So if you see on the 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.280 bottom of a plastic bottle, it'll have a little triangle 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.440 and then it'll have a number from one through seven 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.040 to it, and it doesn't actually tell us whether something 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.760 can be recycled or not. It just tells us what 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.040 type of material that is. So back in the day 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:17.960 we used to kind of see a lot of councils 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.640 say kind of like one, two and four can go 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.600 in your recycling bin. But they're actually moving away from 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.520 this now because it's all about the different sizes and 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.160 what council area you're in and all of these different things. 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:32.520 So it's quite dated now to look for those resin codes. Also, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.360 those resin codes were never actually mandatory. There was something 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.439 that was optional for people and for manufacturers, and often 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:40.880 they do it just to kind of say, like we 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.760 process this, that's why we put a number two on this. 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.600 So now what we're encouraging people to do is look 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:50.400 for the Australasian Recycling Label or the ARL and you'll 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.040 see this one on the back of quite a few 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.960 different products in your supermarket shelves. And what they do 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.520 is it can be one of three different symbols and 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.719 it'll be either like a little rubbish bin, it'll be 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.320 a bl black recycling triangle or it'll be a recycling 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.239 triangle that's white, The recycling triangle that's black means curbside, 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.520 the little bin means landfill, and then the white Actually, 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.840 the white triangle actually means kind of you need to 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.520 do something extra in order for this to be recycled. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.280 So this could be like scrunch this aluminium foil into 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.080 a ball, or that could be kind of I don't know, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.240 you need to take this to an ewaste recycler, or 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.160 you need to do something like that. This is where 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.840 we used to see the return to store for soft plastics, 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.559 which is not available anymore, so that one we now 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.560 need to see. If you see return to store, you 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.840 just need to put it into your landfill bin. What 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.360 happened with that? So pretty much coming back to recycling 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.480 being all about a business and all about like economics, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.320 we during COVID and the pandemic, we all started using 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.360 so much more soft plastics than ever before, so the 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.000 demand for this service went up by three hundred and 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.240 fifty percent, so we were seeing so for example, a 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.720 Cosmal West store used to have kind of one red 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.240 cycle bit at the front of the store that would 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.240 you be empty today it went up to fifteen bins 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.000 a day, so that's how much it kind of increased 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.720 the demand for this program. But then at the other hand, 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.960 the way that recycling works, like the true recycler is 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.719 actually the person that buys something made from recycling materials, 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.400 and for soft plastics in Australia, we don't have enough 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.360 companies who are actually buying that waste to turn it 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.920 into something. Soft plastics they're not a very high quality product. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:28.920 They've often got a lot of labels on them and 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.880 things like that's their costly to process. They get made 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:36.360 into pretty low quality items like rappers and cling films 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.199 and things like that. So there were all of these 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.240 people recycling, and then there was no one actually buying 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.880 that waste to actually turn it into something else. So 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.560 this company started stockpiling it going hopefully somebody will come 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:53.199 along and buy this to then turn it into something 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.760 and it just kept on piling up and piling up, 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:57.680 and the increase, and everyone else was kind of going 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:02.040 soft plastic recycling, recycling, recycling, and nobody was actually buying 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.880 that waste. And then that big article came out last 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.840 week exposing them and they pretty much had to say, yes, 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.040 we need to pause this whilst we get on top 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.560 of it, whilst we find somebody else to actually purchase 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.079 this material to then turn it into something else. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:21.160 Oh, dear god, it's just a shish morphin exactly. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.000 And it was so sad because so many people have 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.800 been trusting in the system. People were like peking their 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.000 soft plastics on the clothesline to let it dry so 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.200 then take it into their store. And it was so 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.520 disappointing and so heartbreaking, and everybody was kind of trusting 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.520 the system, and I completely get why everybody was so 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.440 pissed off and devastated. And then it now shines this 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.360 terrible light on the rest of the recycling system and 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.240 everyone's going, well, does it actually get recycled? Why are 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.600 we doing this? What's going on? And it just happened 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.760 to coincide with National Recycling We. 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:54.760 Oh, did it really? 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.400 Yeah, that's an inside job. It was awful. 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.600 So I like the thing that I've got that is 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.000 positive out of this conversation is that we should look 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.040 to buy products that are made out of recycling materials 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.960 and where we can, don't buy more plastic. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.680 Yesatistic, yeah you get one hundred percent, Thank you, queen. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.200 I use a toothbrush made out of recycled stuff. I 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.400 got it from Woolwords. I think great And anyway, I 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.640 won't tell you all the other ways that I'm amazing. Instead, 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:23.600 I want to play a game with you, which is 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.640 that I brought in a whole bunch of waste from 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.640 my house and I want you to tell me what 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.840 is recyclable great and what is not? 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.559 I love this. I play this every week on Instagram 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.520 on Wednesdays. Yet it's called bingo which bin does each 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.800 item go in? So we're just doing like a radio 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:38.400 version of that. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.560 Oh my gos, I didn't even know that amazing. You'll 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.840 see here I have a yellow bag from Fluff. This 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:47.880 is a cosmetic company that do like sustainable vegan products. 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.439 I'm pretty sure they gave me this bag. Okay, first item, polystyrene? 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.440 Hell no, why not? Do not get that anywhere near 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.319 your recycling bin. It is so difficult to recycle in 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:03.800 Australia's actually being banned completely because it is so problematic 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.200 because if you think about it, like think about a beanbag, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.079 if you put that into your recycling bin, it kind 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.400 of breaks down and it crumbles and it creates this 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:17.520 snow that then goes all throughout the recycling trucks and 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.960 then it's just virtually impossible for us to actually then 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.440 retrieve it and then recycle it. Also, if you think 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.160 about a recycling conveyor belt that's so lightweight, it's gonna 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.280 fly off and ping off somewhere and hit somebody in 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.040 the head and then won't hurt them, but it won't 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.920 be recycled at all. There are a couple of councils 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.840 in Sydney that do actually accept these that they're hard 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.640 to recycle days. But you'll need to look them up again. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.960 Feel local councils to see what they do. But generally speaking, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:43.840 get it right away. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.320 This package that I got from Australia Post, it's a 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.760 cardboard box but it's got the label from O's Post 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:49.040 on it. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.040 Yes, So with this one, what I would do is 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.640 I would separate them and I would put the box 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.880 into your recycling bin and then that little label into 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.120 your landfillm Can. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.800 The box have any plastic on it whatsoever? 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.160 You can have a little bit like wrapping paper for example, 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.000 can have a little bit if you have an envelope 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.520 that has a little plastic window that can go into 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.520 your recycling bin as is, that's fine, but you don't 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.280 want to like coat it in sticky tape and then 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:13.840 pop that into your recycling. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.320 I always wanted like side trying and separate the envelope, 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.200 like cut the plastic out. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:19.920 No need, you're trying too hard on it. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.240 This it is a plastic container that I got, like 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:24.600 a tray that you get meat. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.240 Can meat tray. I would say recycle that one. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.120 Even though like what percentage of little plastic bit, Like. 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.320 That's small enough that it would be fine, but if 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.640 it's still got the flappy piece of plastic on it, 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.120 you need to separate that. Like the film. You need 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.480 to separate the film from the tray itself. 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.480 This purple wrapping paper stuffing kind of stuff that they 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:44.440 got in a pr. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:50.600 Boxsue tissue, paint tissue paper recycling. Also, if you've got 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.480 compost bins, you can pop that in compost bins as well. Sick. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.080 Okay, I need to get one of those, but I 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:57.840 live in an apartment and I don't want worms in 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:58.440 my apartment. 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.600 Everyone loves word. But you could download the share waste app, 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.600 and that is an app that connects you with your 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.320 neighbors who have got a compost bin and want your 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.440 compost it's amazing. So for example, I've got a compost 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.360 bin and a worm farm, and then I have all 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.840 of these random people that pop over and drop off 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.040 their food waste and food scraps to my house. And 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.400 what's good about compost it is about forty percent of 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.880 your actual household bin is made up of things that 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.200 could go into your compost bin. So it's kind of 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:29.200 one of the simplest ways to completely remove forty percent 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.960 of your waist from your household. But also when things 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.720 like banana peels and stuff like that go to landfill, 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.800 they cook and they create this methane gas, which is 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:42.360 a greenhouse gas. Horrible bananas, anything any kind of organic 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.080 matter kind of sits next to your plastics and everything 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.600 else like that, and it just creates all of these 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:48.840 greenhouse gas emissions. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.000 Oh my god. And where can I put my compost 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.120 bin just outside? I can't have one in my house. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:54.560 I don't know. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.160 You could have like a small little kitchen one for example, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.040 that sits a new bench, and that kind of takes 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.680 about three or four keyl waste, i'd say, and then 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.240 you need to pop it. Then you need to pop 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.600 it into a big compost bin. Or we're starting to 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.280 see a lot of councils roll out Fogo, which is 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.679 food and organics recycling, where in your green bin you 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.920 pop in all of your food scraps. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.439 And what do you do with the compost wants the 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.440 bin's full outside. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:22.480 Outside, So then it creates this amazing organic, natural fertilizer 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:26.000 which you could use on your indoor plants. Literally, people 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.359 line up at Bunnings to pay bucket loads of money 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.000 for fertilizer where you can be creating your own at home, 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.920 and it regenerates the soil in much better way than 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.160 any other storeboard compost. Huge I'm going to go buy 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.440 a little bin this recycling, even with the plastic film 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.359 on it, even with the plastic film on it, even 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.000 with the lid on. So what I would recommend is, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.879 this is a milk bottle, And what I would do 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.000 is I would squish it down and then screw it 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.760 on because otherwise it's just taking up more space in 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:54.840 rubbish truck bins. 0:17:55.800 --> 0:18:01.600 This is a bottle of milk ready, Yeah you know 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.520 it stinks like rancid or milk. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:09.760 A receipt, No receipts aren't actually paper. They're made from 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.119 a thermal plastic. So if you kind of get the 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.280 back of your nail and you scrape along the back, 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:15.920 you'll see that it makes like a bit of an 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.439 indent from the from the pressure, and that means that 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.879 it's made from plastic. So you cannot actually go into 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:24.800 your recycling bin. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:30.320 Oh my god, David Jones, this blueberry punnet recycling. So 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.400 pretty much, if you squish something and it pops out 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.560 back into the shape that it originally was, it's generally speaking, 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.320 could go into your curb side recycling bin. Oh my god, 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.080 This Latin lacan if it's empty, aerosols can go into 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:47.680