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 · 103. PFAS - what you need to know about forever chemicals · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

And they're thinking about how to create an innovation pathway.

Oh, exactly.

So basically through uh the fees that you pay through EPR, they're sort of saying what is the kind of glide path to something becoming recyclable?

And at the moment we're looking at the more obvious things like flexible soft plastics.

You know, we say on the podcast they're not rubbish, they are recyclable, you can take them to a um uh uh retailer and uh to your local council site.

But actually to the average person who's just looking at their council services, they're saying, This is a niche and novel material and it doesn't fit with our current waste management systems, therefore it's rubbish, and it kind of will always be rubbish until I'm given a service provision that changes that.

And for in this example of the question, if you're a new business coming up with a new

new format that's much more niche and novel than just say flexible plastics.

It does pose a significant problem for how you can get adoption of your material when frankly the people that you're trying to sell this new packaging format to are saying

Does it comply with PPWR?

Will it be collected or not?

Wha hopefully, if people listen to the advice on greengrocer, they'll start to see that this is what everything should be packaged in anyway.

Absolutely and we'll start to see more uniformity in systems.

That was a nice way to end that one to lead into this one.

Uh so I was thinking this week, and we have talked about it in previous episodes.

Well, you talked about your love of bold beans.

So I thought we would go for beans, but then I thought we probably do need to be specific.

So we should just be going with baked beans.

Baked beans, okay.

So what'd you th my favourite.

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