Leisa de Klerk

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REthinking Waste - From Recycling to Resources · S2 Ep 20 - Community Champions and Common Queries - Rowan Cooke · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

Let's dive in and start rethinking waste recycling.

So in this episode we are chatting with a Rowan Cook, the education officer for Enviro NZ.

Welcome back to the show, Rowan.

So you've previously been on um our show before um and have worked with us quite a bit on on some of these episodes.

But for those who perhaps haven't heard from you, can you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about yourself?

Yeah, I think one of the key th takeaways from running this podcast in general is the fact that there's no shortage of innovative ways and community groups that are actually making a difference in Dunedin.

Yeah.

And so like uh from your perspective, um, you know, working with these community groups and seeing what it is that they're actually doing out there, um what kinds of approaches or initiatives um coming from these groups are the ones that really work?

And holistically as well, because if we're talking about the way that most of these groups work, it is that social and community space, you know, and we all know that humans aren't comp compartmentalized, you know, we can't just shut off parts of ourselves and so why would this be di any different for how we work with sustainability?

Yeah, I think um uh w this is a s something that comes up with schools quite a bit, um, all the time because they're not necessarily aware of just how global our food system is.

So when we're getting something from

Oh, it would say it would be packaged in Australia or but it's actually made from imported ingredients and local ingredients, but doesn't specify what those are.

And so, you know, ha the where it's come from is um where it can usually be recycled.

And I remember as a child saying that um seeing on um cans that you could take it to recycling stores to get twenty five cents back.

Yeah, yeah.

And I was just like, uh we we knew that we could do that at one point in time.

So if we're looking at doing it s simply for us, so that we're we're we're doing that imperfectly.

Um, do you foresee a future where businesses will also make it more simple for for us as well?

Well, thank you so much for for that so far, Rowan.

It's been really um really good to have revisit this conversation and um looking forward to your n top tip which's coming up next.

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