Top tips - What to do with watery waste - Countney Giddens - Reliance Recovery
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This podcast was produced by RFM Dunedin with support from New Zealand on the air. Top tips for avoiding the tip. Let's reduce, reuse and recycle together. Our guests and listeners share their top tips for minimising waste. Here we are with Courtney Giddens from Reliance Recovery. We've been talking today about all types of um solid and liquid waste. Courtney, do you have a top tip for our audience at home?
Absolutely. When we think about our red bin, it is not just for all waste. Remember that.
Fantastic.
Fantastic. And so what do you um what do you mean by that? So obviously people are have got their stuff in in their household and they've got their yellow bin and their blue bin and their green bin and then everything else goes in the red bin, doesn't it?
Yes, well uh yeah, I I admittedly, years ago used to think that as well. But when it comes to things like used cooking oil that you might have at home and you might think, Oh, just chuck it in the red bin, na na, call us we can uh take it down south and it gets made into biodiesel, that stays right here within New Zealand. There's always another way and it doesn't always have to go in the red bin.
How does Courtney Giddens define the proper use of the red bin?
That is a fantastic top tip because I think a lot of people su see the red bin as the end of the line. So it's wonderful to um open our minds to opportunities where um that can actually go to um doing some good and avoiding um creating new types of of of energy, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
And I I guess i the the existence of the red bin is is is an interesting one because we didn't used to have it and we used to have to pay for a bag to put our rubbish in. And paying for a bag to put your rubbish in is a moment that catches you and you think Do I really need to buy this bag? Is there something else I can do? Whereas now i it's it's it's a bit easier. Yeah, the red bins there and you can chuck your stuff in it. And so yeah, just taking that moment every time you lift a red bin lead, just think, does this need to go in here? Because of course there are other things, you know it's tetrapack recycling, there's soft plastic recycling that's not done through the kerbside. So it's not you the
Th there are things that there are systems in place for that we we can remember. You always need a poster on the underside of the red bin. Yes, you do.
Perhaps even that one that the recycling in Ochpoti Dunedin does. Yes. Yeah, which um is is on a fa on the Facebook page where um there's an update semi regularly on all of the other recycling schemes around Dunedin. Yeah. Um not a bad idea to print one of those off and pop it under the red bin and as a reminder. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's all habit forming, isn't it? You know like You know, yeah. Like i the a lot of it is about being conscious, um, as you go and remembering um, you know, you don't have to do everything at once. Mm. Maybe addressing your cooking oil um is is a really good first step, um as is as an alternative of something to do, particularly um, as we talked about earlier on, the um impact of of that type of thing on the leachate and the contamination levels at the landfill.
Mm.
Um
So So you know, you really are um Mm-hmm. avoiding a whole lot of waste by um thinking about doing something differently with that particular stream.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why should used cooking oil be diverted from the red bin to biodiesel production?
Fantastic. Thanks so much, Courtney. It's been been fascinating talking to you and a great top tip. Take a moment when you lift up red blitz. What a great weekend.
Thanks, Hebs Courtney. Thank you.
Thanks for listening to Rethinking Waste. We hope we helped you rethink waste in Ortiporti Dunedin and gave you some ideas for reducing, reusing and recycling. You can listen again, find other episodes, or subscribe to Rethinking Waste at oar.org.nz on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your podcasts. You can also listen on Otago Access Radio every second, Thursday. Tuesday at 6 pm on 105.4 FM and 1575 AM. Thanks to the DCC for supporting this podcast. This podcast was produced by All FM Dunedin with support from New Zealand on the air.
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