Sharon Brett-Kelley

Why would it be in our food even?

How much of our food does have petroleum-derived product?

And just getting back to household, what's in our households that, you know, in our typical day, I guess it is kind of everywhere, isn't it?

Like cleaning products, would that have any kind of petroleum?

So if it's not in the products, it's in the packaging of the product?

Clothing would have some sort of petroleum derivative?

what we sit on, the curtains that we use.

Then we come to cosmetics and perfume.

It's in your lipstick.

I mean, obviously it's not dangerous to have it in small amounts in products.

Is this going to prompt some really serious thinking about our manufacturing processes and our heavy dependence on petroleum?

Or have people like you been thinking about that for a long time?

What would be an alternative?

And is that what you are focused on at the moment?

And do you feel in New Zealand that the pace of work that's going on in this area is picking up now, or where are we at now?

That's it for today.

The Detail is a Newsroom production supported by RNZ and New Zealand On Air.

Today's podcast was produced by Gwen McClure and engineered by Phil Benj.

Thanks to Brent Young, Adam Jackson and Ruben Cutts.

I'm Sharon Brett-Kelley.