James Piper

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

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

It makes those fires more likely. voice-verified

And you're just undoing the benefit that a landfill brings. voice-verified

and that's why recycling is so likely to catch fire because you've got dry cardboard and these things that are very ignitable and you're putting with them a battery or an electronic or a vape or something that's just started a little fire voice-verified

it very quickly can spread amongst the dry recycling. voice-verified

And typically when you see CCTV of fires that have happened in recycling centres, that's what's happened. voice-verified

You've got a small ignition to start, but it rapidly spreads through the recycler. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

The fires that we talk about and we read about are just the incidents... voice-verified

where the fire was big enough to write about it. voice-verified

I mean, we don't talk about the ones that were detected, but managed and stopped. voice-verified

And there are more than 100 incidents a month across recycling. voice-verified

But again, we're only talking about maybe a dozen that actually made the headlines. voice-verified

There are lots that are controlled, managed, put out. voice-verified

that just we never hear about. voice-verified

And from memory, it was essentially doubling. voice-verified

It had gone from 700, I think, in 2023 up to 1,300 in 2024. voice-verified

So it will be higher again. voice-verified

When they release new numbers, it will be higher again. voice-verified

You'll start getting into 2000, 3000, 4000 instance, and it will just keep increasing because ultimately our bins have changed. voice-verified

You know, 20 years ago, our household bin contained what? voice-verified

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