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Good Podcasts on Rubbish, Recycling and Sustainability

  • SHENEVA
  • Sep 3
  • 2 min read

Here are some of our favourite podcasts that deal with waste, recycling and sustainability.



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Talking Rubbish - a weekly podcast that unpacks the complexities of recycling, whilst having a lot of fun. Hosted by Hosted by James Piper, author of The Rubbish Book and Robbie Staniforth, Policy Director at a leading environmental consultancy.

If you are obsessed with rubbish as much as we are – this is for you. What happens with the waste in skips? Is recycled plastic worse for human health than virgin plastic? Do we really only recycle 9% of plastic? Does plastic cause heart disease? If you want to know the answers to these questions – dive in!


Every single episode is a gem and is genuinely fun!



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Sliced Bread - a BBC podcast. Together with experts, the podcast host Greg Foot investigates the so-called wonder products making bold claims. Are they the best thing since sliced bread, or marketing BS?


We were particularly interested in these episodes focusing on the eco/sustainable products:


  • Bedding - Can changing your sheets be good for you - and the environment?

  • Christmas Trees – which Christmas tree is better for the environment - real or fake?

  • Chopping Boards – Which chopping board material is best for hygiene and the planet?

  • Cleaning sprays - Do we really need all those cleaning sprays?

  • Eco-friendly Toilet Paper - How green can your loo roll be? Lots of companies have sprung up offering what they say are the most eco-friendly ways to wipe - and there's a lot to think about.

  • Laundry Products – are EcoEggs, Laudr sheets and microfibre capturing better for the planet?

  • Reusable Nappies – are they really better for the planet, and your pocket?

  • Sustainable Period Products – What are the lost eco0friendly period products?



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Buried - a 10-part series from BBC Radio 4 investigating the secret dumping of an estimated million tonnes of waste – some of it now highly toxic – near a drinking water supply in Northern Ireland, has revealed officials may have broken the law in their handling of it. Utterly shocking!


 
 
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