June 21, 2024 • 8 mins
We all make waste, some of us more than others.
But how do we deal with it? It can be tough to keep everything organised and sorted.
Kate "Ethically Kate” Hall joined Jack Tame to walk listeners through the best way to set up an efficient waste system in their homes.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at B and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Time to getch up with our sustainability expert Kate Hall
aka Ethically.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Kate hey k, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Okay, So this morning we're talking about how to set
up an efficient waste system in your home and I
had to pause for a moment and get out my
hand and count on my fingers how many different bins
we have at our place? So what would you say,
off the top of your head? Do you know how
many bins you've got at your place?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yep, and by this I mean like a rubbish bin,
you know, like a food scrape spin, different receptacles. Yeah, exactly.
So how many? How many have you got?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Five?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I've got four?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Four?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh okay, so I want to know are yeah? Okay,
so my four I've got your rubbish bin, recycling bin. Yep,
food scraps and soft plastics. Okay, I'm missing nice.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah. So actually, now I think about that, I probably
have about.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Eight one bin off k. That's pretty decent. But okay,
well I.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Didn't do my accounting right yeah. So okay, so so
the ones you said yep? Great, So waste to landfill. Also,
I don't know if you've been lined, but mine isn't.
Because if you hear about all the different other binds
that I put stuff, you don't need a bindliner because
it's not we can work on that. Hey, it's good.
(01:44):
This is room for improvement. That's always true.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah. So yeah, rubbish bin recycling, and we know that
we can only put a number one too and five.
So that's your curb side recycling, right, So we have
different bins that we take to our local recycling center
because curb side only takes a certain amount of things.
(02:08):
But that doesn't mean that there's other things we probably
have in your life that you could take from your
waist bin and actually take them to a local recycling center.
So that's so that's that's so we've got waste recycling
compost as you know, soft classics, we have soft plastics
are getting clean and dry, and we now bend that
(02:29):
we take to the recycling center has all the lids.
So you can't put any lids into your curb side,
not even ice comin container lid, Nope, not a no
wine lids, no, you know the lid on your orange juice.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Not that container lid.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
No, you can't know.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Like it's mainly just stuff you can't put in their A.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yes, well, we have to think about the infrastructure that
I know it is. It is sad because we do
we have like hundreds of different materials and obviously we
can only recycle certain certain ones and useland but you
can't have so let's them because of ice cream container lid. Unfortunately,
the technology that the sorting recycling machines often recognize that
(03:17):
as paper and then it gets put into a you know,
the paper recycling and that contaminates a paper waste stream.
So that's why lids have been taken out because they
cause all sorts of issues with our sorting machinery. But
your local recycling center very likely all take them. So
we have a container for our lids. So there's a
(03:37):
you know, particularly yogurt that Tim loves, and there's this
medium sized black lids, so we have a lot of
those there, ye take them, So we did that yesterday,
actually went to our local recycling center. They often collect
soft pasticks too, so you can kind of take it
all at once.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
With the soft place decks. Yes, come on, are they
are they going anywhere? That isn't a landsfill.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well, I actually boycotted having a soft pest I've only
recently got a surf pestick recycling than at our house
because I realized that, actually, you know, we talk about
recycling way too much than it deserves credit for, because
we need to reduce it from the get go. So
I noticed that when I knew I had a self recycling,
you know, been at home, and yeah, it could be recycled,
(04:23):
and yes, future posts take them, turning them into fence
posts and use for different you know, vegiplanter beds and
stuff like that. But we need to reduce it from
the get go because we just have too much, you know.
So I noticed in my habits that I would be
at the supermarket and I would buy more things than
soft plastics. When I had a soft plastics bin, right,
(04:44):
you know, it was like.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
To get it or something.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Eh, yeah, exactly. And so when I didn't collect myself plastics,
I would actually reduce my way. So sure then there'd
be more subspects going to landfill, but reduction is key.
So I kind of change I v on that recently,
but yeah, we'll see how it goes. But my other
interesting bins are one for clothing that just cannot be
(05:11):
reused or reworn or I kind of store that app
and I use it to stuff cushions or footstools. Yeah.
I made my parents a footstool actually stuff with actually
a lot of the clothes from my late grandmother's boardrobe
being but they often yeah I can, I kind of, yeah,
(05:32):
keep a little pile growing, and then I'll go and
stuff and kind of replump up their footstool so that
that helps. Batteries all there's been three fun I do
just a little. It's a little reciprocal and it takes
long to stock up because we were tragables from Pale
Blue now so we can plug those in and charge
(05:53):
them just with a micro usb.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I always just take mine up to Bunnings, you know,
because they've got them. Having a little ben's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yea, yes, you just have a little spot. But there
have been three rubber truck fires in our local area
and recently because people put batteries in their rubbish bin. Yeah,
so it's really a huge hazard of you know, it's
terrible environmentally, but yeah, so bat trees. I also have
a bend for my returnable items, for like my toothpaste
(06:23):
comes in a glass jar and I gather those in
a bind and then I can send them back to
solid roby them from and they will refill them. So
I kind of same with my makeup from last So
I kind of have is two bends for yeah, my
makeup empties and my toothpaste empties that once those of
them get filled, yeah, then I will send them back
(06:45):
to them. So yeah, batteries, the reusables, clothes, compast, soft plastics,
clib side recycling, local recycling, and rubbish. So that is
ace actually you win.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that is like
kind of seriously impressive. It's funny though, way Like I
think a key for people who are in households where
they're driving things is sometimes actually just making sure everyone's
on the same page. Like I reckon, if I went
home to my wife right now and I said, can
you recycle the lids from ice cream containers? And I'll
(07:22):
be honest with you, ours is a house that gets
through quite a bit of ice cream, I reckon, She
would say, yeah, of course you can. You know, it's
just one of the you know, stuff like that. Sometimes
you just think, oh, for sure, but actually actually making
sure that he runs on the same page with what
you can and can't recycle, throw away soft basics, all
that stuff and the right bens for things is kind
of vital.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yes, label things have instructions. When someone comes into my
house and I know that they're new to my house
and they might be there for a little while, I
tell them about the diffrunaway streams. Yeah, because you know,
there's a talking point and they're clear, they know where
to push. It's like down, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is
the induction to my home. I'm so chatting about why
(08:03):
you're doing it too, and not just forcing your household
into it. Yeah, like having an open dialogue around hey,
what could we do to be better? And you know, yeah,
divert things.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
That makes a lot of sense. Hey, thank you so much, Kate.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks ed B from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at B and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Time to getch up with our sustainability expert Kate Hall
aka Ethically.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Kate hey k, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Okay, So this morning we're talking about how to set
up an efficient waste system in your home and I
had to pause for a moment and get out my
hand and count on my fingers how many different bins
we have at our place? So what would you say,
off the top of your head? Do you know how
many bins you've got at your place?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yep, and by this I mean like a rubbish bin,
you know, like a food scrape spin, different receptacles. Yeah, exactly.
So how many? How many have you got?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Five?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I've got four?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Four?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh okay, so I want to know are yeah? Okay,
so my four I've got your rubbish bin, recycling bin. Yep,
food scraps and soft plastics. Okay, I'm missing nice.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah. So actually, now I think about that, I probably
have about.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Eight one bin off k. That's pretty decent. But okay,
well I.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Didn't do my accounting right yeah. So okay, so so
the ones you said yep? Great, So waste to landfill. Also,
I don't know if you've been lined, but mine isn't.
Because if you hear about all the different other binds
that I put stuff, you don't need a bindliner because
it's not we can work on that. Hey, it's good.
(01:44):
This is room for improvement. That's always true.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah. So yeah, rubbish bin recycling, and we know that
we can only put a number one too and five.
So that's your curb side recycling, right, So we have
different bins that we take to our local recycling center
because curb side only takes a certain amount of things.
(02:08):
But that doesn't mean that there's other things we probably
have in your life that you could take from your
waist bin and actually take them to a local recycling center.
So that's so that's that's so we've got waste recycling
compost as you know, soft classics, we have soft plastics
are getting clean and dry, and we now bend that
(02:29):
we take to the recycling center has all the lids.
So you can't put any lids into your curb side,
not even ice comin container lid, Nope, not a no
wine lids, no, you know the lid on your orange juice.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Not that container lid.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
No, you can't know.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Like it's mainly just stuff you can't put in their A.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yes, well, we have to think about the infrastructure that
I know it is. It is sad because we do
we have like hundreds of different materials and obviously we
can only recycle certain certain ones and useland but you
can't have so let's them because of ice cream container lid. Unfortunately,
the technology that the sorting recycling machines often recognize that
(03:17):
as paper and then it gets put into a you know,
the paper recycling and that contaminates a paper waste stream.
So that's why lids have been taken out because they
cause all sorts of issues with our sorting machinery. But
your local recycling center very likely all take them. So
we have a container for our lids. So there's a
(03:37):
you know, particularly yogurt that Tim loves, and there's this
medium sized black lids, so we have a lot of
those there, ye take them, So we did that yesterday,
actually went to our local recycling center. They often collect
soft pasticks too, so you can kind of take it
all at once.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
With the soft place decks. Yes, come on, are they
are they going anywhere? That isn't a landsfill.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well, I actually boycotted having a soft pest I've only
recently got a surf pestick recycling than at our house
because I realized that, actually, you know, we talk about
recycling way too much than it deserves credit for, because
we need to reduce it from the get go. So
I noticed that when I knew I had a self recycling,
you know, been at home, and yeah, it could be recycled,
(04:23):
and yes, future posts take them, turning them into fence
posts and use for different you know, vegiplanter beds and
stuff like that. But we need to reduce it from
the get go because we just have too much, you know.
So I noticed in my habits that I would be
at the supermarket and I would buy more things than
soft plastics. When I had a soft plastics bin, right,
(04:44):
you know, it was like.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
To get it or something.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Eh, yeah, exactly. And so when I didn't collect myself plastics,
I would actually reduce my way. So sure then there'd
be more subspects going to landfill, but reduction is key.
So I kind of change I v on that recently,
but yeah, we'll see how it goes. But my other
interesting bins are one for clothing that just cannot be
(05:11):
reused or reworn or I kind of store that app
and I use it to stuff cushions or footstools. Yeah.
I made my parents a footstool actually stuff with actually
a lot of the clothes from my late grandmother's boardrobe
being but they often yeah I can, I kind of, yeah,
(05:32):
keep a little pile growing, and then I'll go and
stuff and kind of replump up their footstool so that
that helps. Batteries all there's been three fun I do
just a little. It's a little reciprocal and it takes
long to stock up because we were tragables from Pale
Blue now so we can plug those in and charge
(05:53):
them just with a micro usb.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I always just take mine up to Bunnings, you know,
because they've got them. Having a little ben's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yea, yes, you just have a little spot. But there
have been three rubber truck fires in our local area
and recently because people put batteries in their rubbish bin. Yeah,
so it's really a huge hazard of you know, it's
terrible environmentally, but yeah, so bat trees. I also have
a bend for my returnable items, for like my toothpaste
(06:23):
comes in a glass jar and I gather those in
a bind and then I can send them back to
solid roby them from and they will refill them. So
I kind of same with my makeup from last So
I kind of have is two bends for yeah, my
makeup empties and my toothpaste empties that once those of
them get filled, yeah, then I will send them back
(06:45):
to them. So yeah, batteries, the reusables, clothes, compast, soft plastics,
clib side recycling, local recycling, and rubbish. So that is
ace actually you win.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that is like
kind of seriously impressive. It's funny though, way Like I
think a key for people who are in households where
they're driving things is sometimes actually just making sure everyone's
on the same page. Like I reckon, if I went
home to my wife right now and I said, can
you recycle the lids from ice cream containers? And I'll
(07:22):
be honest with you, ours is a house that gets
through quite a bit of ice cream, I reckon, She
would say, yeah, of course you can. You know, it's
just one of the you know, stuff like that. Sometimes
you just think, oh, for sure, but actually actually making
sure that he runs on the same page with what
you can and can't recycle, throw away soft basics, all
that stuff and the right bens for things is kind
of vital.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yes, label things have instructions. When someone comes into my
house and I know that they're new to my house
and they might be there for a little while, I
tell them about the diffrunaway streams. Yeah, because you know,
there's a talking point and they're clear, they know where
to push. It's like down, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is
the induction to my home. I'm so chatting about why
(08:03):
you're doing it too, and not just forcing your household
into it. Yeah, like having an open dialogue around hey,
what could we do to be better? And you know, yeah,
divert things.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
That makes a lot of sense. Hey, thank you so much, Kate.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks ed B from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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