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Rubbish

Tuesday, 5 May 09

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What’s in your recycling bin and where does it go?

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Glass bottles, DVD players, milk cartons, banana skins, nappies, newspapers, pizza boxes, mobile phones, toothpaste tubes. Do you know what can and can't be recycled?

Do you really know what happens when you put the wrong thing in the wrong bin?

Find out what and where you can recycle

Each year we recycle more and more but do we recycle the right things and do we know what it costs?

Who is responsible for clearing up your rubbish? Is recycling a waste of time and could it be better to just send everything to the tip?

Join Insight with rubbish producers, throwers, collectors and recyclers as we talk garbage.

Guests Gerard Van Rijswijk, Dave West and Kane Hardingham will be available for you to talk to after the show on our Live Chat.

You can also follow Insight on Twitter.

Further reading

The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts has released a consultation paper, A National Waste Policy: Managing Waste to 2020

Senate committee – Container deposit Legislation?

National Packaging covenant

Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC)

Productivity commission  - report into waste management

Meet the Guests

  • Dave West

    Dave West is the founder of the Boomerang Alliance, a governance body made up of 17 green groups working towards zero waste.

  • Gerard Van Rijswijk

    Gerard Van Rijswijk is a consultant for the National Retailers Association who has been involved with recycling for over 20 years.

  • Cory Maxwell-Coghlan

    Cory Maxwell-Coghlan is a 27 year old student who is very keen to do everything he can to reduce his waste.

  • Sean Pleasance

    Sean Pleasance works the recycling sorting centre in Orange. Sean shows us how our recyclables are sorted and what happens when we put the wrong thing in the wrong bin.

  • Kane Hardingham

    Kane Hardingham is the Environmental Manager of Woolworths and is responsible for delivering employee awareness programs to the company's 190,000 employees.

  • Lee Smith

    Lee Smith is the General Manager of Marketing & Public Affairs for VISY- Australia’s largest recycling company.

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