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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: He's a comedian, a writer, an actor, a lawyer, an

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Speaker 2: overachiever by the sound of it, and a man on

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Speaker 2: a mission to save the planet. This guy has gone

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Speaker 2: from making us laugh on the Chaser to exposing the

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Speaker 2: shocking truth about our garbage. The multi award winning show

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Speaker 2: We're On Waste is back for a third season on

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Speaker 2: the ABC, more eye opening than ever. Craig root Castle, Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 2: jens Man.

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Speaker 1: How do you guys?

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Speaker 3: We are great and really I have taken up your teachings.

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Speaker 3: I'm very good at recycling now. Also, I hang on

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Speaker 3: to clothes a lot longer now, sloppy Joe's and stuff,

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Speaker 3: And you don't have to watch You don't have to

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Speaker 3: wash sloppy Joe's all the time.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, look wear them longer. I mean it depends how

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Speaker 1: to smell you are. I realize it's different for every person.

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Speaker 4: If you're a real sweater, you might have to wash

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Speaker 4: your sweater a bit more often, but otherwise you can

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Speaker 4: let it go a bit longer because, bizarrely enough, one

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Speaker 4: of the things we look at in this series is microplastics,

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Speaker 4: and lots of it actually comes off washing our clothes.

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Speaker 4: And I didn't experiment to find out how much microplastics

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Speaker 4: actually inside me, outside you, inside me, and madam.

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Speaker 1: You know that.

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Speaker 5: But you know the period of your TV career where

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Speaker 5: you somebody says to you you're going to have to pull

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Speaker 5: in a jar career.

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Speaker 2: I do it just for pleasure, nothing professional about.

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Speaker 1: It, exactly.

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Speaker 5: So, yeah, we literally look at not only you know,

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Speaker 5: plastics in our environments, and that we looked at inside

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Speaker 5: of me.

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Speaker 1: How are we getting them?

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Speaker 2: How are we getting them in our bodies?

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Speaker 5: Well, amazingly, a lot of it's just literally from in

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Speaker 5: the air, like it's breathing it in and that's the

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Speaker 5: kind of fascinating And that's a lot of that's coming

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Speaker 5: from our actual clothes and that so I mean, amazingly,

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Speaker 5: it kind of blew my mind away. Like over sixty

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Speaker 5: percent of our clothing is made of plastic, which.

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Speaker 6: Is it really?

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's extraordinary. So it's become the norm, and

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Speaker 1: that's kind.

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Speaker 5: Of we're at the real start of figuring out what's

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Speaker 5: the impact of this breathing and this stuff.

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Speaker 6: So is it bad for you to have microplastics in you?

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Speaker 1: Look, I don't think it's the greatest thing. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: make it your general diet. Maybe I should put it

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Speaker 1: look out.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Look, we're at the very early stages, so it

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Speaker 5: depends how much we're getting in there.

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Speaker 1: That's what we can't look into. Yeah, but when.

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Speaker 6: You compared to lead or asbestos and things like that, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Not quite that bad yet, but we don't know.

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Speaker 5: Look, the interesting thing about it is it's also not

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Speaker 5: necessarily just the plastic, Like when we make plastic. There's

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Speaker 5: all these other chemicals that go into it to like heat,

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Speaker 5: fire retardants and you know, fastest and all this kind

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Speaker 5: of other stuff.

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Speaker 1: So it's a question of what do they do to

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Speaker 1: us as well.

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Speaker 4: So it's you know, it's become this kind of constant

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Speaker 4: part of our society and we're still trying to figure

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Speaker 4: out how to deal with it.

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Speaker 2: Really well, speaking of how to deal with it, you

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Speaker 2: did touch on something I need to go back to.

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Speaker 2: So you puot in a jar and then had to

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Speaker 2: hand it over to your colleagues, to your cameraman or

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Speaker 2: camera woman and have people look at it.

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Speaker 5: No, look, I had to pack it away in Somemisee

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Speaker 5: and send it to the university in Queensland.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, to some professional scientists who dealt

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Speaker 1: with it, who were very you know that they're very

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Speaker 1: professional about the whole situation. I'm not extremely uncomfortable about it,

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Speaker 1: let's be fair.

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Speaker 3: I guess it makes for a nice change you sending

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Speaker 3: it out, because you would have received a fair bit

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Speaker 3: of it when you were on the chaser.

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Speaker 1: That's all right, that's right. I've gone from being full

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Speaker 1: of shit to actually just counting my ship.

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Speaker 2: You also look at soft plastics recycling and the failure

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Speaker 2: of the recycling scheme to deal with soft plastics.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a big one, and it's one I

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Speaker 5: still get stopped on the street a lot to ask

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Speaker 5: you about because so many people were really keen about

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Speaker 5: dropping off.

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Speaker 1: The soft plastics of their coals and woolies. And it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a it's a fascinating story of how it.

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Speaker 5: Fell over, and we talked to the person that founded it,

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Speaker 5: and we kind of speak to people who had all

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Speaker 5: of it in their warehouses for years.

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of a sad story of you know, just.

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Speaker 5: People setting out with the right intentions but just not

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Speaker 5: having the system there.

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of one of those things.

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Speaker 5: I hope that in a way that kind of public

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Speaker 5: exposure this help works to have a better system long term,

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Speaker 5: Like there's no point just picking it up and dropping

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Speaker 5: for coals, AND's no point just picking it up.

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Speaker 1: To me, you actually have to be able to recycle

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Speaker 1: it to actually make it work.

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Speaker 6: And all you got to do is watch it. You

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Speaker 6: don't have to do a poo and a jar.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're not asking for everyone to do that.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully, really hopefully it really catches on, you know, and.

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Speaker 3: Don't forward it under Craig Rewcastle, man, it's always great

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Speaker 3: to talk to you.

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Speaker 6: Season three War on Waste premier is tonight.

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Speaker 3: At eight point thirty on ABC and ABC I view

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Speaker 3: Craig Recastle, Thank you

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Speaker 1: Thanks Jazen, Amanda