James Piper

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7,697 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Aug

James Piper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Talking Rubbish - The Recycling Podcast · 107. Why our bins keep catching fire · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

I don't hear all deposit return schemes. voice-verified

There are some I would be very, very keen to see in place, particularly ones that are linked to fires. voice-verified

But we'll come on to that. voice-verified

A while ago, we did an episode on battery fires. voice-verified

I think it was episode 73. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

And to set up, or the inspiration for that episode, I should say, was you and me going round a mirth in Avonmouth. voice-verified

That's right. voice-verified

And we were chatting to Stuart from Suez, who was telling us all about the fires. voice-verified

And it just so happens that that exact Murph that we toured that inspired episode 73 has itself now experienced a fire. voice-verified

Yeah, I just thought the irony of the site that we taught to have a discussion about fires that inspired our discussion about fires now having a fire is so depressing. voice-verified

And it is far from the only one. voice-verified

In July 2026 alone, there was a fire at a waste transfer facility in Southwark. voice-verified

a fire in a landfill site in Fife, a recycling centre in Wimbledon, Northampton, Widness, Perth, the sewers in Avonmouth, one that we've just talked about. voice-verified

And then August didn't start too well because on our anniversary, Robbie, August the 1st, there were two fires at a landfill site, at two landfill voice-verified

And it's the landfill ones. voice-verified

I mean, they're not the worst, but they're the ones that concern me because one of the very few environmental benefits of a landfill, when you have these people come on who say, don't incinerate, send it to landfill, that's because the environmental benefit of it is that you're locking away carbon. voice-verified

And you have a fire, it releases the carbon that you've locked away. voice-verified

So I've often, or we've often talked about fires at recycling sites, but not landfills. voice-verified

And where we've got things like heat waves, which are drying all of our landfills out, all of our packaging out, whatever's out there is getting drier and drier. voice-verified

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