June 26, 2024 • 22 mins
Ever wondered what on Earth greenwashing actually means? Have you heard the word wishcycling and wished you knew its meaning? In this episode we look at these words and a few other ethical buzz words that are associated with waste, recycling and helping planet Earth. #Wishcycling #Greenwashing #Contamination #Upcycling #Reusing #PlanetEarth #ChallengeToChange
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(00:10):
Hi there and welcome to theChallenge to Change podcast.
My name is Hazel and thispodcast is all about the
little changes we can all makethat will have a positive
effect upon planet Earth. Ifyou're new here, welcome. If
you've listened before,welcome back. The Challenge to
(00:33):
Change podcast has beenbrought to you on behalf of
ANSA Environmental Services.To find out more about ANSA,
please visit ANSA.co.uk. Let'sget into the podcast episode.
This podcast episode is allabout ethical buzz words, or
(00:57):
to put it another way, commonphrases that are associated
with waste recycling andhelping planet earth. So I'm
going to talk about a few ofthese phrases and we're going
to find out what they actuallymean. Are you ready? Let's
dive into the first word. Andthat is contamination. Now,
(01:23):
most people would know whatthe word contamination means
in general, but what does itmean when related to waste and
recycling? Well, basically itmeans anything that is not
supposed to be in your bin,but has found its way in
there. So here in CheshireEast, an example of
(01:45):
contamination, Would bebasically any item that cannot
be recycled through yourcurbside recycling service.
Maybe the item in question canbe recycled in general in
other ways, but it cannot gothrough that process of
(02:07):
recycling through your silverbin here in Cheshire East. So
there are five items that canbe recycled through your
silver bin here in theCheshire East area and we call
these the big five. So let'sfind out what those big five
(02:28):
items are. Paper, squashableplastic, cardboard, glass and
metal food cans and drinkcans. So that's the big five.
However, cardboard can beclassed as a contaminated item
(02:50):
if it's covered in grease,food, or if it's very wet. So
if it's completely soggy. Solet's think about the trusty
pizza box. If like me, youoccasionally partake in a
takeaway where a pizza isdelivered to your door, or
maybe you pick it up. So thepizza comes in a cardboard
(03:12):
box. And even though cardboardcan be recycled, it cannot be
recycled if it's covered ingrease and food, because that
cardboard has becomecontaminated. So what you can
do with that pizza box, and Ithink we have talked about
this before on the Challengeto Change podcast, you can
(03:36):
remove parts of the cardboardthat have not been
contaminated with grease andfood. Something that can help
with this is removing thepizza from the cardboard box
when you receive it and justplacing it on a plate or
another item in your house.But if you don't do that and
(03:58):
you leave the pizza in thecardboard box, you will find
that it will probably get alittle bit more contaminated
than it otherwise might havedone. But that's okay, that of
course is your choice. Butwhat you can still do is
remove the parts of thecardboard that have not been
contaminated with grease andfood. Generally speaking, that
(04:21):
would tend to be the lid. Soif you open your pizza box
quite quickly, and I know I doas soon as the pizza arrives,
the chances are that that lidwill not have become
contaminated with grease andfood. It may have done but
there's a great chance that ithasn't. So you can remove the
lid that's not beencontaminated and that can go
(04:45):
into your silver recyclingbin. However, if the lid is
also contaminated with greaseand food, you may well find
that the edges of the pizzabox are free from grease and
food. So again, they can alsobe removed. So you can either
tear them once you've eatenthe pizza or you can cut them
(05:07):
using scissors. But eitherway, you will most likely find
that some parts of that pizzabox And the pizza box that
I'm talking about of course isthe type of pizza box that you
have takeaway pizza in. If youbuy pizza from shops and
supermarkets that also comesin a cardboard box. It's
(05:30):
usually wrapped in plastic andthen it comes in a cardboard
box. So those cardboard boxeswould be fine in your silver
recycling bin. They are notlikely to be contaminated with
grease and food but if theyare for some reason the same
rule can apply where you justremove the parts of the
cardboard that have not beencontaminated. So using that
(05:54):
example there of a pizza boxwe can see what that word
contamination means. Itbasically means anything that
should not find itself in yoursilver recycling bin. Another
example of contamination thatwe do find here in Cheshire
East are batteries andelectrical and electronic
(06:18):
items. So these cannot go intoany of your bins here in
Cheshire East. They againwould be classed as items of
contamination and in the caseof Anything that contains a
battery there is also a healthand safety risk there as well
because when waste iscollected with the waste
(06:40):
collection vehicles if thereare batteries Inside your bins
that process of collecting thewaste can cause those
batteries to compress and itcan cause a fire and that can
also happen at waste transferstations as well. So
batteries, electronic itemsand electrical items are also
(07:02):
examples of contamination inactually any of your bins. So
that's the word contamination.So let's find out about our
next word which appertains towaste recycling and helping
planet Earth. And the word orphrase in question is
(07:24):
greenwashing. Now we havementioned the word
greenwashing on the Challengeto Change podcast before, and
you may well have heard itmentioned on social media and
in other areas. But what doesit mean? Let's find out. So I
think the easiest way tounderstand the phrase
(07:45):
greenwashing is to think of itas a type of paint. So a green
wash of paint and with paintwe cover something up. We
cover up a wall, we mightcover up a mark that is there.
So it's literally metaphoricalpaint so the idea is that
Organizations that greenwashor are greenwashing or
(08:09):
covering something up, they'rehiding something. So they're
hiding the reality of theirbehavior. So they're
presenting themselves as beingan ethical organization. When
in fact that's not the case.So that could be on quite a
grand scale where anorganisation is saying they're
(08:31):
doing one thing and they'redoing something completely the
opposite and that opposite ofcourse would be something that
is not ethical at all. Or itcould just be an implied So
perhaps through advertising orsomething like that, so where
a product is being advertisedand it's being presented as
something very ethical andhelpful to the planet, whereas
(08:54):
in reality that is not thecase. So that's what
greenwashing is.So now we know what it is,
what can we do about it? Wellreally the only way to know if
a company is greenwashing ornot is to look at the ethical
(09:19):
credentials of that particularcompany and we can do that in
lots of different ways. We canof course look at the company
website although as Thatinformation will have been put
together by the company inquestion. It's probably not
going to give us the fullpicture, but that's the first
thing that we can do. And wecan look at some of the things
(09:40):
that they say they're doingand we can find out how
ethical those things are. Soif they're a company, let's
say that uses bamboo in theirproducts, we can look into how
ethical bamboo really is. Sothat's another thing that we
can do. We can carry out ourown research online, we can
(10:02):
listen to podcasts like thisone, and we can basically look
at different materials, sodifferent sources of
information to find out ifthat company is as ethical as
they say they are. And reallythat's the only way that we
would know for sure that wewere making A confident
(10:25):
ethical purchase in a lot ofcases, obviously in some
circumstances we can be farmore confident that the
decision we're making is anethical one. So if you're
choosing to buy somethingsecond hand from a charity
shop, we can be confident thatwe are purchasing something
that is second hand and we canbe confident that we are
(10:45):
helping that charity. Andtherefore, not only are we
helping the charity inquestion, We are reducing our
carbon emissions by purchasingsomething second-hand. So
there are circumstances ofcourse where we can be
confident that the decisionswe're making are ethical ones
but for other types ofdecisions it can be perhaps a
(11:09):
little less straightforwardand we can try our best to
avoid companies that may begreenwashing. So that's
greenwashing. So let's move onto our next phrase. And that
(11:29):
is repurposing. Now, manypeople listening to this
podcast episode may alreadyknow what repurposing means,
but if you're unsure or youjust want a little bit more of
an explanation, let's findout. So repurposing basically
means you are using an itemfor another purpose. So you're
(11:54):
taking something that youalready have and you're
repurposing it, you're usingit again in a different way.
And this may well extend thelife of the item in question.
Certainly, If it's no longerusable for its original
intention and then it becomessomething else then basically
(12:17):
that's exactly what willhappen. So it could simply be
a plastic yogurt pot. If Ihave some yogurt, I eat the
yogurt and I wash out theyogurt pot and then I use that
yogurt pot as a pot forchildren's paint Then I am
(12:37):
repurposing that yogurt pot.The yogurt pot is not going
into my silver recycling binhere in Cheshire East. It's
being repurposed for anotheruse. And it may well be that
we continue to use that yogurtpot for children's paints for
quite a long time. And wehave, by doing that,
(13:00):
repurposed that yogurt pot. Somany items, of course, as we
know, are designed to besingle use and a yogurt pot is
a good example of this. So byrepurposing something, we
transform a single use iteminto a multi-use item. But
(13:21):
even when it's not designed tobe single use, if it stops
being usable for its originalpurpose and then gets used for
another purpose, then it hasnot been thrown away. It has
not gone to be recycled. Ithas been repurposed instead.
So of course, there is a greatethical win by doing this.
(13:45):
It's better for the planet torepurpose something. Then
throw it away, that goeswithout saying but it's
actually better for the planetas well if we repurpose
something rather thanrecycling it. Recycling as we
know is a really great thingto do and we should absolutely
all try our best to recyclebut if we can repurpose then
(14:09):
that is even better. So that'srepurposing, but linking in
with repurposing, there isanother ethical buzz word that
you may well have heard of andthat's upcycling. Upcycling is
essentially very similar toreusing. However, the
(14:29):
difference is we are reusingit in such a way that it
creates an item of highervalue than the original. So it
could be that we transform atin can that previously
contained food or drink, andthen we transform it into a
(14:50):
pen holder. Or we may have anold palette, which we then
transform into a shelf. Sothese are items that have been
upcycled. They are still beingrepurposed, but they have been
transformed into an item ofgreater value. Now, generally
(15:10):
speaking, when we think ofvalue, we tend to think of it
in terms of products and wethink of it in terms of money.
But we can also think of it interms of items that have value
for us as individuals. Whetherwe repurpose or upcycle, it
doesn't really matter becauseboth options are great for
(15:34):
planet Earth and in a generalsense, they are also better
than recycling because of thecarbon emissions associated
with recycling. But as notedpreviously, of course,
recycling is still a reallygreat thing to do. So now
(15:54):
that we have looked atrepurposing and upcycling,
let's look at our penultimateword and that is wishcycling.
It's quite hard to sayactually, isn't it?
Wishcycling. So you may wellhave heard this word also
mentioned on social media andin other areas, but what
(16:17):
actually is it? What do wemean by wishcycling? So wish
cycling is the disposal ofwaste in a recycling bin in
the hopes that it will getrecycled, or to put it another
way, the wish that it will getrecycled. But in reality that
(16:39):
cannot happen. When answerenvironmental services finds
items of contamination amongstthe recycling that is
sometimes where a householdmay feel that the item should
be recycled or can berecycled. They want the item
(17:02):
to be recycled. So theirintentions perhaps can be very
pure and coming from a reallygreat place. So they place
that item into their silverrecycling bin in good faith in
the hope that it will berecycled. But it's not
something that can be recycledin that way. Or maybe it's not
something that can be easilyrecycled at all. And that is,
(17:25):
or can be, I should say, anexample of wish cycling. So
maybe someone really wants aparticular item to be recycled
in their silver recycling bin.So I'm going to give you
another example here. Let'ssay. That a family has
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children and their childrenare growing up and there's
some cuddly toys that thechildren no longer want. So
those cuddly toys get placedinto their silver recycling
bin. The silver recycling binis collected by Anser
Environmental Services. Itcomes to our waste transfer
station. So we receive thatrecycling waste and we
(18:11):
discover that there are somecuddly toys in amongst the
recycling. So we will ofcourse do our best to take
those toys out but of courseat that point they cannot be
recycled so they will thenbecome black household waste.
So those cuddly toys couldhave been dealt with in a
different way. So if you havesome cuddly toys that you no
(18:34):
longer want, you could takethem to a charity shop and
they can then be sold toanother family and they can
then provide years of fun andenjoyment for some other
children. Another thing thatyou can do with cuddly toys
that you have and no longerwant is to offer them via a
(18:57):
community recycling facility.So that could be an app, it
could be a website, it couldbe a local group that you know
in the physical world ratherthan the virtual world. So you
could pass it on in that way.Another thing that you could
do with cuddly toys that youno longer want is to pass them
on to a friend or a familymember. So there are different
(19:22):
options to recycle or to passon a cuddly toy that's no
longer wanted. However, asnoted, if that cuddly toy
finds itself in the silverrecycling bin, it is classed
as contamination andunfortunately it will not be
recycled. So not only is it anexample of contamination,
(19:45):
which we mentioned at thestart of this podcast episode,
it is also or rather it can bean example of wish cycling
whereby somebody believes orjust simply wants that item to
be The name of the meeting isSo hopefully through that
(20:21):
example there, it's easier tounderstand what the word or
phrase wish cycling actuallymeans. So before I close this
particular episode, I justwant to talk very briefly
about the word reduce. Now, ofcourse, the word reduce is
very familiar to most people.It's an easy word to
(20:43):
understand. So the reason thatI have mentioned this word is
not so much to explain theterm, but really to remind all
of us that to reduce our wasteis the greatest thing that we
can do when it comes to wasteof recycling. And of course,
by reducing our waste, we arehaving a positive impact upon
(21:06):
planet earth. So all of thesewords that we've talked about
do kind of link in with that.It's great to recycle, it's
wonderful to repurpose, it'swonderful to reuse, it's
wonderful to upcycle but if wereduce our waste in the first
(21:26):
instance that is really one ofthe greatest things that we
can do to Have a positiveimpact on the planet in terms
of waste. So if we makereducing our waste the
cornerstone or the foundationof what we do as individuals
(21:46):
to help planet earth whenthinking about waste and
recycling then we really willbe making a massive difference
to planet earth. So I reallyhope that you found this
podcast episode helpful anduseful. I hope that if you
were unsure before, you nowhave a greater understanding
(22:07):
of some of those ethical buzzwords that I have described in
this episode. Of course, ifyou have any questions, please
do take the time to commentand I will do my best to
answer those. And if you can,if you would like to, please
do also like, share andsubscribe. Thank you so much
for listening and I will ofcourse check in with another
(22:29):
episode of the Challenge toChange podcast really soon.
Bye for now.
Hi there and welcome to theChallenge to Change podcast.
My name is Hazel and thispodcast is all about the
little changes we can all makethat will have a positive
effect upon planet Earth. Ifyou're new here, welcome. If
you've listened before,welcome back. The Challenge to
(00:33):
Change podcast has beenbrought to you on behalf of
ANSA Environmental Services.To find out more about ANSA,
please visit ANSA.co.uk. Let'sget into the podcast episode.
This podcast episode is allabout ethical buzz words, or
(00:57):
to put it another way, commonphrases that are associated
with waste recycling andhelping planet earth. So I'm
going to talk about a few ofthese phrases and we're going
to find out what they actuallymean. Are you ready? Let's
dive into the first word. Andthat is contamination. Now,
(01:23):
most people would know whatthe word contamination means
in general, but what does itmean when related to waste and
recycling? Well, basically itmeans anything that is not
supposed to be in your bin,but has found its way in
there. So here in CheshireEast, an example of
(01:45):
contamination, Would bebasically any item that cannot
be recycled through yourcurbside recycling service.
Maybe the item in question canbe recycled in general in
other ways, but it cannot gothrough that process of
(02:07):
recycling through your silverbin here in Cheshire East. So
there are five items that canbe recycled through your
silver bin here in theCheshire East area and we call
these the big five. So let'sfind out what those big five
(02:28):
items are. Paper, squashableplastic, cardboard, glass and
metal food cans and drinkcans. So that's the big five.
However, cardboard can beclassed as a contaminated item
(02:50):
if it's covered in grease,food, or if it's very wet. So
if it's completely soggy. Solet's think about the trusty
pizza box. If like me, youoccasionally partake in a
takeaway where a pizza isdelivered to your door, or
maybe you pick it up. So thepizza comes in a cardboard
(03:12):
box. And even though cardboardcan be recycled, it cannot be
recycled if it's covered ingrease and food, because that
cardboard has becomecontaminated. So what you can
do with that pizza box, and Ithink we have talked about
this before on the Challengeto Change podcast, you can
(03:36):
remove parts of the cardboardthat have not been
contaminated with grease andfood. Something that can help
with this is removing thepizza from the cardboard box
when you receive it and justplacing it on a plate or
another item in your house.But if you don't do that and
(03:58):
you leave the pizza in thecardboard box, you will find
that it will probably get alittle bit more contaminated
than it otherwise might havedone. But that's okay, that of
course is your choice. Butwhat you can still do is
remove the parts of thecardboard that have not been
contaminated with grease andfood. Generally speaking, that
(04:21):
would tend to be the lid. Soif you open your pizza box
quite quickly, and I know I doas soon as the pizza arrives,
the chances are that that lidwill not have become
contaminated with grease andfood. It may have done but
there's a great chance that ithasn't. So you can remove the
lid that's not beencontaminated and that can go
(04:45):
into your silver recyclingbin. However, if the lid is
also contaminated with greaseand food, you may well find
that the edges of the pizzabox are free from grease and
food. So again, they can alsobe removed. So you can either
tear them once you've eatenthe pizza or you can cut them
(05:07):
using scissors. But eitherway, you will most likely find
that some parts of that pizzabox And the pizza box that
I'm talking about of course isthe type of pizza box that you
have takeaway pizza in. If youbuy pizza from shops and
supermarkets that also comesin a cardboard box. It's
(05:30):
usually wrapped in plastic andthen it comes in a cardboard
box. So those cardboard boxeswould be fine in your silver
recycling bin. They are notlikely to be contaminated with
grease and food but if theyare for some reason the same
rule can apply where you justremove the parts of the
cardboard that have not beencontaminated. So using that
(05:54):
example there of a pizza boxwe can see what that word
contamination means. Itbasically means anything that
should not find itself in yoursilver recycling bin. Another
example of contamination thatwe do find here in Cheshire
East are batteries andelectrical and electronic
(06:18):
items. So these cannot go intoany of your bins here in
Cheshire East. They againwould be classed as items of
contamination and in the caseof Anything that contains a
battery there is also a healthand safety risk there as well
because when waste iscollected with the waste
(06:40):
collection vehicles if thereare batteries Inside your bins
that process of collecting thewaste can cause those
batteries to compress and itcan cause a fire and that can
also happen at waste transferstations as well. So
batteries, electronic itemsand electrical items are also
(07:02):
examples of contamination inactually any of your bins. So
that's the word contamination.So let's find out about our
next word which appertains towaste recycling and helping
planet Earth. And the word orphrase in question is
(07:24):
greenwashing. Now we havementioned the word
greenwashing on the Challengeto Change podcast before, and
you may well have heard itmentioned on social media and
in other areas. But what doesit mean? Let's find out. So I
think the easiest way tounderstand the phrase
(07:45):
greenwashing is to think of itas a type of paint. So a green
wash of paint and with paintwe cover something up. We
cover up a wall, we mightcover up a mark that is there.
So it's literally metaphoricalpaint so the idea is that
Organizations that greenwashor are greenwashing or
(08:09):
covering something up, they'rehiding something. So they're
hiding the reality of theirbehavior. So they're
presenting themselves as beingan ethical organization. When
in fact that's not the case.So that could be on quite a
grand scale where anorganisation is saying they're
(08:31):
doing one thing and they'redoing something completely the
opposite and that opposite ofcourse would be something that
is not ethical at all. Or itcould just be an implied So
perhaps through advertising orsomething like that, so where
a product is being advertisedand it's being presented as
something very ethical andhelpful to the planet, whereas
(08:54):
in reality that is not thecase. So that's what
greenwashing is.So now we know what it is,
what can we do about it? Wellreally the only way to know if
a company is greenwashing ornot is to look at the ethical
(09:19):
credentials of that particularcompany and we can do that in
lots of different ways. We canof course look at the company
website although as Thatinformation will have been put
together by the company inquestion. It's probably not
going to give us the fullpicture, but that's the first
thing that we can do. And wecan look at some of the things
(09:40):
that they say they're doingand we can find out how
ethical those things are. Soif they're a company, let's
say that uses bamboo in theirproducts, we can look into how
ethical bamboo really is. Sothat's another thing that we
can do. We can carry out ourown research online, we can
(10:02):
listen to podcasts like thisone, and we can basically look
at different materials, sodifferent sources of
information to find out ifthat company is as ethical as
they say they are. And reallythat's the only way that we
would know for sure that wewere making A confident
(10:25):
ethical purchase in a lot ofcases, obviously in some
circumstances we can be farmore confident that the
decision we're making is anethical one. So if you're
choosing to buy somethingsecond hand from a charity
shop, we can be confident thatwe are purchasing something
that is second hand and we canbe confident that we are
(10:45):
helping that charity. Andtherefore, not only are we
helping the charity inquestion, We are reducing our
carbon emissions by purchasingsomething second-hand. So
there are circumstances ofcourse where we can be
confident that the decisionswe're making are ethical ones
but for other types ofdecisions it can be perhaps a
(11:09):
little less straightforwardand we can try our best to
avoid companies that may begreenwashing. So that's
greenwashing. So let's move onto our next phrase. And that
(11:29):
is repurposing. Now, manypeople listening to this
podcast episode may alreadyknow what repurposing means,
but if you're unsure or youjust want a little bit more of
an explanation, let's findout. So repurposing basically
means you are using an itemfor another purpose. So you're
(11:54):
taking something that youalready have and you're
repurposing it, you're usingit again in a different way.
And this may well extend thelife of the item in question.
Certainly, If it's no longerusable for its original
intention and then it becomessomething else then basically
(12:17):
that's exactly what willhappen. So it could simply be
a plastic yogurt pot. If Ihave some yogurt, I eat the
yogurt and I wash out theyogurt pot and then I use that
yogurt pot as a pot forchildren's paint Then I am
(12:37):
repurposing that yogurt pot.The yogurt pot is not going
into my silver recycling binhere in Cheshire East. It's
being repurposed for anotheruse. And it may well be that
we continue to use that yogurtpot for children's paints for
quite a long time. And wehave, by doing that,
(13:00):
repurposed that yogurt pot. Somany items, of course, as we
know, are designed to besingle use and a yogurt pot is
a good example of this. So byrepurposing something, we
transform a single use iteminto a multi-use item. But
(13:21):
even when it's not designed tobe single use, if it stops
being usable for its originalpurpose and then gets used for
another purpose, then it hasnot been thrown away. It has
not gone to be recycled. Ithas been repurposed instead.
So of course, there is a greatethical win by doing this.
(13:45):
It's better for the planet torepurpose something. Then
throw it away, that goeswithout saying but it's
actually better for the planetas well if we repurpose
something rather thanrecycling it. Recycling as we
know is a really great thingto do and we should absolutely
all try our best to recyclebut if we can repurpose then
(14:09):
that is even better. So that'srepurposing, but linking in
with repurposing, there isanother ethical buzz word that
you may well have heard of andthat's upcycling. Upcycling is
essentially very similar toreusing. However, the
(14:29):
difference is we are reusingit in such a way that it
creates an item of highervalue than the original. So it
could be that we transform atin can that previously
contained food or drink, andthen we transform it into a
(14:50):
pen holder. Or we may have anold palette, which we then
transform into a shelf. Sothese are items that have been
upcycled. They are still beingrepurposed, but they have been
transformed into an item ofgreater value. Now, generally
(15:10):
speaking, when we think ofvalue, we tend to think of it
in terms of products and wethink of it in terms of money.
But we can also think of it interms of items that have value
for us as individuals. Whetherwe repurpose or upcycle, it
doesn't really matter becauseboth options are great for
(15:34):
planet Earth and in a generalsense, they are also better
than recycling because of thecarbon emissions associated
with recycling. But as notedpreviously, of course,
recycling is still a reallygreat thing to do. So now
(15:54):
that we have looked atrepurposing and upcycling,
let's look at our penultimateword and that is wishcycling.
It's quite hard to sayactually, isn't it?
Wishcycling. So you may wellhave heard this word also
mentioned on social media andin other areas, but what
(16:17):
actually is it? What do wemean by wishcycling? So wish
cycling is the disposal ofwaste in a recycling bin in
the hopes that it will getrecycled, or to put it another
way, the wish that it will getrecycled. But in reality that
(16:39):
cannot happen. When answerenvironmental services finds
items of contamination amongstthe recycling that is
sometimes where a householdmay feel that the item should
be recycled or can berecycled. They want the item
(17:02):
to be recycled. So theirintentions perhaps can be very
pure and coming from a reallygreat place. So they place
that item into their silverrecycling bin in good faith in
the hope that it will berecycled. But it's not
something that can be recycledin that way. Or maybe it's not
something that can be easilyrecycled at all. And that is,
(17:25):
or can be, I should say, anexample of wish cycling. So
maybe someone really wants aparticular item to be recycled
in their silver recycling bin.So I'm going to give you
another example here. Let'ssay. That a family has
(17:46):
children and their childrenare growing up and there's
some cuddly toys that thechildren no longer want. So
those cuddly toys get placedinto their silver recycling
bin. The silver recycling binis collected by Anser
Environmental Services. Itcomes to our waste transfer
station. So we receive thatrecycling waste and we
(18:11):
discover that there are somecuddly toys in amongst the
recycling. So we will ofcourse do our best to take
those toys out but of courseat that point they cannot be
recycled so they will thenbecome black household waste.
So those cuddly toys couldhave been dealt with in a
different way. So if you havesome cuddly toys that you no
(18:34):
longer want, you could takethem to a charity shop and
they can then be sold toanother family and they can
then provide years of fun andenjoyment for some other
children. Another thing thatyou can do with cuddly toys
that you have and no longerwant is to offer them via a
(18:57):
community recycling facility.So that could be an app, it
could be a website, it couldbe a local group that you know
in the physical world ratherthan the virtual world. So you
could pass it on in that way.Another thing that you could
do with cuddly toys that youno longer want is to pass them
on to a friend or a familymember. So there are different
(19:22):
options to recycle or to passon a cuddly toy that's no
longer wanted. However, asnoted, if that cuddly toy
finds itself in the silverrecycling bin, it is classed
as contamination andunfortunately it will not be
recycled. So not only is it anexample of contamination,
(19:45):
which we mentioned at thestart of this podcast episode,
it is also or rather it can bean example of wish cycling
whereby somebody believes orjust simply wants that item to
be The name of the meeting isSo hopefully through that
(20:21):
example there, it's easier tounderstand what the word or
phrase wish cycling actuallymeans. So before I close this
particular episode, I justwant to talk very briefly
about the word reduce. Now, ofcourse, the word reduce is
very familiar to most people.It's an easy word to
(20:43):
understand. So the reason thatI have mentioned this word is
not so much to explain theterm, but really to remind all
of us that to reduce our wasteis the greatest thing that we
can do when it comes to wasteof recycling. And of course,
by reducing our waste, we arehaving a positive impact upon
(21:06):
planet earth. So all of thesewords that we've talked about
do kind of link in with that.It's great to recycle, it's
wonderful to repurpose, it'swonderful to reuse, it's
wonderful to upcycle but if wereduce our waste in the first
(21:26):
instance that is really one ofthe greatest things that we
can do to Have a positiveimpact on the planet in terms
of waste. So if we makereducing our waste the
cornerstone or the foundationof what we do as individuals
(21:46):
to help planet earth whenthinking about waste and
recycling then we really willbe making a massive difference
to planet earth. So I reallyhope that you found this
podcast episode helpful anduseful. I hope that if you
were unsure before, you nowhave a greater understanding
(22:07):
of some of those ethical buzzwords that I have described in
this episode. Of course, ifyou have any questions, please
do take the time to commentand I will do my best to
answer those. And if you can,if you would like to, please
do also like, share andsubscribe. Thank you so much
for listening and I will ofcourse check in with another
(22:29):
episode of the Challenge toChange podcast really soon.
Bye for now.
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