Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Parul Sood: Auckland Council Deputy Director of Resilience and Infrastructure on e-waste in rubbish bins

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Parul Sood: Auckland Council Deputy Director of Resilience and Infrastructure on e-waste in rubbish bins · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, rubbish tracks are blowing up. Well, blowing up might
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  Speaker 1: be an exaggeration, but there have been loads of fires
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  Speaker 1: and rubbish and recycling trucks nine over the past little while.
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  Speaker 1: On top of that at Ukhan's recycling facility that has
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  Speaker 1: one or two small fires every single week. So Auckland
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  Speaker 1: Council Deputy Director of Resilience and Infrastructure Paru Sued joins
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  Speaker 1: me right now.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Pero, good morning Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: What's blowing up?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's all the wrong items that people
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  Speaker 2: are putting into those trucks and they are predominantly lithemain
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  Speaker 2: batteries that we've got so many of them in our
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  Speaker 2: devices that are blowing up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so give us a list what's blown up? What's
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  Speaker 1: the stuff we shouldn't be putting in the in the
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  Speaker 1: rubbish truck.
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  Speaker 2: So one thing to clearly remember is what you should
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  Speaker 2: be putting into your recycling bins. It is meant for
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  Speaker 2: packaging only that comes out of your kitchen, laundry and
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  Speaker 2: your bathrooms and of course paper that you might have
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  Speaker 2: and actually nothing else. What people are doing, or I
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  Speaker 2: guess they're doing it by mistake or some of them
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  Speaker 2: are thinking, is wish cycling. They're actually putting in things
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  Speaker 2: like batteries. They're also putting in canisters that might have
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  Speaker 2: got some gas in it, or LPT bottles or even
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  Speaker 2: being found in it that can very easily, once damished,
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  Speaker 2: catch fire.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so where should we put them? Like in December alone,
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  Speaker 1: nearly six hundred laptops and over three hundred and twelve
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  Speaker 1: vote batteries found their way into our recycling re facility,
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  Speaker 1: which you just know that's bad. So where should those
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  Speaker 1: people that put the laptops and batteries?
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  Speaker 2: That's right, And if you think of just you know,
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  Speaker 2: visit Council's website. There is a whole list of places
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  Speaker 2: where you can take them, and it's an easy search
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  Speaker 2: that you can find them. But there are also retailers
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  Speaker 2: that actually offer you can take them to those retailers
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  Speaker 2: and they'll take it back for free. So Mighty ten
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  Speaker 2: and Bunnings for example, have battery drop offs. There are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of organizations that do e waste collections and
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  Speaker 2: take back as well. We also have some community recycling
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  Speaker 2: centers that take eway back. So I guess just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of research on where you can take it
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  Speaker 2: near your house is what you need to do to
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  Speaker 2: be able to get these materials to the right place
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  Speaker 2: and disposed of correctly.
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  Speaker 1: So is there anything you can actually do to crack
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  Speaker 1: down on the people who are either lazy or ignorant
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  Speaker 1: to put this down or do you just have to
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  Speaker 1: rely on community responsibility?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I think it's community responsibility is all on us
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  Speaker 2: to actually do the right thing. We can look through
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  Speaker 2: footage to see where it's come from. It's quite hard
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  Speaker 2: to do that, but I think if we all just
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  Speaker 2: think a little bit before we put that material in
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  Speaker 2: the bin, I think that's the best way to go
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  Speaker 2: because that's then preventing it from entering into the win
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  Speaker 2: and we're not spending time wondering and policing it.
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  Speaker 1: Pedal, Thank you so much for your time today produceud
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