Robbie Staniforth

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2,901 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

You can actually do it every time you go grocery shopping, you can deposit your batteries. voice-verified

And likewise with the vapes, whoever's selling them to you should have a scheme to take them back. voice-verified

So it's sort of similar. voice-verified

It may be a grocery, maybe a smaller format store, but there are places to take these things. voice-verified

It isn't as difficult as waiting for your annual run to the tip. voice-verified

there's plenty of ways to avoid this. voice-verified

Okay, to a much wider audience. voice-verified

Fortify yourself against this risk. voice-verified

Yeah, absolutely. voice-verified

They're not going to set up, and they do have some, but they're not going to set up full screening at the front and go digging into it themselves. voice-verified

It's just way too expensive. voice-verified

This is a push the problem back upstream in terms of mitigate it or avoid it altogether. voice-verified

And, you know, people are very resistant. voice-verified

These same types of people who think it's the problem of the waste managers are very resistant to anyone looking in their bin and saying they can't do what they've already done sort of thing and unpick the battery going into the bin. voice-verified

The technology is pretty good and pretty readily available. voice-verified

So it's a kind of be careful what you wish for. voice-verified

I personally think it's probably an eventuality. voice-verified

at some point in the next five to ten years, that there will be more screening of what goes into the recycling and the general waste truck even, because this is getting to be such a huge problem. voice-verified

Insurance going up massively for all of these sites, because the insurers and the underwriters are just sitting there saying, it's happening more often, what mitigations have you got? voice-verified

No matter what mitigations you've got, it's still more likely to happen... voice-verified

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