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Speaker 1: I have Gosh on the line right now. James. He's

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Speaker 1: the managing director of VTG Waste and Recycling. Now, James

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Speaker 1: is out there at Hidden Valley, which is where the well,

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Speaker 1: I guess it's like the emergency dump that's been set

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Speaker 1: up following the cyclon. Good morning to you, James.

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Speaker 2: Hello, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, I'm very well. How are you going? How

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Speaker 1: busy are you? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, busy busy. The traffic is flowing and it's all

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Speaker 2: working quite well.

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Speaker 1: So James, tell me when did you guys open up

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Speaker 1: out there at Hidden Valley.

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Speaker 2: So we've got to call from MTG on Sunday around

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Speaker 2: early morning, around nine in the morning, and then we

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Speaker 2: met the team on site and we're operational by midday

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Speaker 2: at twelve thirty one o'clock. So that was initially for

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Speaker 2: the commercial trucks because they had nowhere to take green

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Speaker 2: waste on that Sunday straight after Sena.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, And so was that because Shoal Bay wasn't

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Speaker 1: accessible at that point in time that that you know,

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Speaker 1: that decision was made.

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Speaker 2: Yes, correct, So Shelbay was closed. And there's a number

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Speaker 2: of reasons. Initially they were trying to assess what they're

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Speaker 2: going to do. And also I think the ongoing reason

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Speaker 2: Shelbay is not accepting waste, which does make sense as

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Speaker 2: they're prioritizing for commercial operators, which they eventually did on Monday,

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Speaker 2: but which makes that traffic flow a lot better for

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Speaker 2: the commercial side of things, clear for helping clear running

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Speaker 2: waste and all the commercial waste essentially. So outside that

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Speaker 2: were set up with Antigovernment is for commercial and residential

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Speaker 2: greenways and it's been operational since yes Sunday, But the

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Speaker 2: message only really got out there on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yesterday we sort of started to hear it. How

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Speaker 1: busy have you been out there? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Once the message you got out there, it started off

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Speaker 2: fairly slow because the communication wasn't amazing, but the good

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Speaker 2: people are Darwin managed to communicate across Facebook, word of mouth,

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Speaker 2: all the rest of it, and it got out there

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Speaker 2: pretty quickly. And the flow has been I'd say there's

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Speaker 2: been a thousand plus vehicles yesterday. Wow, come through that start, yeah, right.

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Speaker 1: And now people been pretty patient and have they got

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Speaker 1: a lot of waste. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So initially people were frustrated because they were getting turned

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Speaker 2: away from shol Bay and not knowing what to do.

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Speaker 2: But once they got there, they were happy there was

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Speaker 2: a solution. They had someone to take the waste. You

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Speaker 2: see the repeat people coming where they must have a

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Speaker 2: lot of greenways and they're doing multiple runs, whether it's

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Speaker 2: in a ute or a trailer. And then the commercial

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Speaker 2: trucks haven't stopped either. So yes, it's been busy and

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Speaker 2: there's a lot going on.

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Speaker 1: And Mate, tell me how's it looking out there this morning?

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Speaker 2: Good? Good, everything's flowing. Well, there's still a steady flow

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Speaker 2: of people coming in and yeah, it's all going to plan. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we've got a'redit organizes to shred it so we can

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Speaker 2: maintain the pile as well.

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Speaker 1: And James, tell me what time are you open until today?

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Speaker 1: Because I know there's going to be a lot of

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Speaker 1: people listening. And do we have any idea how long

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Speaker 1: you're going to stay open for?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's open from seven am till six pm

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Speaker 2: every day. And at this point we're just ongoing until

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Speaker 2: the service doesn't need to be provided.

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Speaker 1: And what happens at the end with that pile once

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Speaker 1: the clean up ends, do you burn it off or

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Speaker 1: you know, you're obviously you probably would chip some of it,

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Speaker 1: depending on what's there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we shred it and then it turns into

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Speaker 2: a nice wood chit mulch pile and there's demand for that.

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Speaker 2: So I'm just working in with the government on what's

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Speaker 2: what we're going to do with that in the end,

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Speaker 2: But it won't go to waste.

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Speaker 1: Good for the garden. Good to get those trees planted

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Speaker 1: again and get them going. That's right, well, James, mate,

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you having a chat with this. I

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Speaker 1: hope you know that it stays pretty calm out there.

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Speaker 1: I reckon it will you guys are well and truly

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Speaker 1: onto it. But really good to hear that that facility

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Speaker 1: is operating out there. Can you give us a bit

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Speaker 1: of context as to like how much waste might have

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Speaker 1: already been dropped.

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Speaker 2: Off in terms of iron? The stockpile is huge. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: a bit hard to tell in terms of meter's cube,

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Speaker 2: but it's massive and it's just growing, I think. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: as I said, there's probably over a thousand vehicles that

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Speaker 2: came in yesterday, both residential and truck, so dumping in

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Speaker 2: different piles, and yeah, it's quite a feat. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think I just can't stress enough that if we

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Speaker 2: can just get the public just coming through there and

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Speaker 2: then Shelbay and make Rood for the commercial operators. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, James Bracash, the managing director of VTG Waste and Recycling.

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Speaker 1: Really good to catch up with you. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for your time and no doubt you're going to

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Speaker 1: have a busy one today mate.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Henny, thank you,