Coco Kahn
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 12 Jun
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Okay, so we're back in the studio and Nish, I must talk to you about the bins. Must you? I must. You know how I feel about the bins. I just think if I may have a moment to just be like really like deep about bins. Don't you think it's amazing? Collective sanitation. What an unbelievably amazing thing that we did. We all got together as a society and we decided let's just clean this up.
Otherwise before you just threw your shit on the street. Disgusting.
And, you know, that wasn't that long ago. Anyway, I just think society is great.
I was listening to, because I sometimes listen to bin-based content. It's a big part of my background. I've always wondered if it's like a particularly British thing to have an obsession with the bins. I don't know. I actually don't know if that's the case.
Anyway, this has gone a bit too far. But I was listening to a podcast about the bins and about how British people uniquely are a bit obstinate about bins. In other parts of the world, people are happy to have seven bins and recycle. But there seems to be something about the British who are like, I'm not having extra bins. You can't stop me. I'm going to put everything in one bag.
That's my right as a Brit.
I've got a bin for batteries, bruv. You've got a bin for batteries? Yeah, well, it's just a bag that I leave on top of the bin. Anyway. Oh, really? Yeah, it's a service that our cancer offers.
Yeah, I know. But look, you know, look what the state could do for you. It could help you. Anyway, the reason we're talking about the bins is that Bristol is bidding to become the first council in England to move to a four week black bin collection cycle. So that means they're not talking about the recycling bin, the green bin that will be collected more.
But the black bin, which is the stuff that tends to go to landfill or be incinerated, is meant to be full of stuff that you can't recycle. But in reality, often is full of stuff you can recycle. So that will be picked up every four weeks. It's caused a massive fuss in Bristol and Labour are taking advantage. It's been Labour who are behind a petition to get this policy overturned.
It's still in consultation stage anyway. It's been national news. It's been an interesting thing to see progressives online who, you know, the Greens picked up a lot of progressive support.
Hugely, especially under the under 40s. It's been interesting to see those people online being like, oh, please, no, stop it. This is not the hill to die on, Greens, please. It's been really fascinating to see. So I think this is probably a big test for them. What are you? You four-week, two-week bin? What sort of bin are you?
Well, I mean, I think what people are finding frustrating is that the Greens have a point when they say that we... don't recycle enough and are putting too much stuff in that black bin bag. And if you're forced to kind of know you have limited space, it might push you to recycle a little bit more.
A number of the recycling rates in Bristol have been flatlining, even though Bristol is famously very good at recycling. So they're giving this ecological argument. But the reality is, is that they need to save money. Like every council in Britain that has come out of 14 years of conservative rule, there's no effing money. And so it will save them two million pounds.
So I think there's this sort of frustration of being like, just be honest. Like you need to do this for cost cutting. But there's a lot of posturing being like, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is a great idea. This is objectively a great idea for the planet. I think people find that annoying.
His buttocks uncovered. I was carrying him and he just decided to unload.
I mean, yeah, definitely. And I think there are questions to be answered about if this does go ahead, what will happen? Will there be specialist nappy collections, for example? Because you're right, there is just stuff, human shit, that needs special treatment and needs more regular treatment.
Look, I think it's a really difficult position for progressives when they come in to power because they obviously make promises about like, we're going to be the anti-austerity candidates or we're going to roll back some of the cuts. But fundamentally, if from Westminster, there is not money going to those councils and there's just going to be more cuts coming down the line.
We've talked about this before in our previous episode about councils. And so I do understand that the Greens are in this really, really difficult position. There is a part of me that is fascinated with this because obviously Labour want to win Bristol back. It's been a seat for them for a long time. And it's just amazing that this battle will just distill to be about the bins.
I think this is a conversation we should keep an eye on because there's national interest in it just generally because of the conversation around bins. But also I think this speaks to something that Labour will be trying to take advantage of while also not accepting that they do the same thing.
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