Listener Reviews

What an episode - inspiring, educational, and just simply brilliant. Having started listening in the very early days, I’ve always meant to write a review but it was this episode which compelled me to actually do it. I listen to your episodes in my daily lunchtime walks around the harbourside in Bristol and what embarrassment befell me when I laughed out loud at Robbie’s comment on taking his coffee black from now on. I had to stop and sit down to gather myself before continuing my walk. You guys brighten up my day no end! Thank you. PS - pretty sure I’ve walked past Robbie before whilst actually listening to the podcast. Keep up the great work! (And please consider doing some sort of event, webinar or recording with a live audience for us average binfluencers who aren’t a part of the sustainability industry but would love some live interaction!)

I’ve just clocked 30-yrs in the paper recycling industry (actually making the paper from kerbside collections) and find this such an informative and really well presented and funny podcast. James and Robbie both make the topic so relevant and manage to keep the content so fresh and engaging in a topic that a lot of people get the wrong information or headline grabbing sensationalism.Love it and listen to every episode.

I’m binging (bin-ging 😂) this pod on holiday and loving it. It’s so much more interesting than you would think. Loads of info about waste, what happens to it and how to reduce producing it in the first place by two knowledgeable and easy-to-listen-to guys. Not preachy, just very interesting and easy listening. I will sort my waste and share knowledge better as a result of listening. Highly recommend! Thanks guys.

I started listening to James and Robbie’s podcast last year after seeing them live at the NEC talking about paper bottles.Working in the waste industry, I went in slightly nervous. There’s a lot of greenwashing out there, and I wasn’t sure what I was about to hear.Robbie’s laugh did catch me off guard at first… but I was pleasantly surprised by the podcast content.I recently did a 400-mile round trip and worked my way through more episodes, so it was great to have you both keeping me company.It’s the perfect mix of serious and funny, but the honesty is the best bit. Because if I see one more headline about a ‘recyclable’ material that disappears off the face of the earth a week later, I might have to go live in a cave.Keep being honest, keep calling things out, (keep laughing Robbie) and keep changing the world one material at a time.Naomi - Biffa

Loving the podcast as a fellow recycling nerd! Still learning loads so keep up the good work. 8 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

Making waste interesting (for the unbelievable not waste ‘nerds’)! I’ve worked in and been passionate about waste for years but these podcasts are both fun, accessible and everyone can learn something regardless of their knowledge or experience. Keep up the good work and great chat/banter please, you’re doing a great job and hopefully gathering listeners all the time. Thanks for keeping me company whilst out walking too!

James (with help from Robbie) gave an excellent breakdown of the recent Guardian article on microplastic studies and its implications for us all. Huge congrats to them for this. The rest of the episode is high quality discussion. I will be recommending this episode to friends and colleagues

The hosts have an absolute rubbish heap of charisma. Their chemistry is never trashy, and they refuse to let the conversation go stale. Some might think a podcast called Talking Rubbish would be full of wasted potential, but honestly, this show is pure gold — the kind you find at the bottom of the sorting facility. The discussions are so engaging I’ve started listening on my commute, my lunch break, and yes, while taking the bins out.The production quality is spotless. The topics are meaty, the banter is sharp, and there’s zero residual waste in the editing. Every minute counts.If you haven’t subscribed yet, it’s anything but a load of rubbish.Well… technically it is a load of rubbish. And that’s exactly why it’s brilliant.10/10

I listen to your brilliant content doing my weekly bathroom clean (Nancy Birtwhistle home made cleaning potions, of course). This podcast gives me hope that there are an increasing number of people and businesses in the world that care about sustainability. Also love the jingle music and always have a little wiggle to it 😂 keep up the good work.

Great podcast the presenters make what could be a dry subject entertaining and really informative. I’ve been binfluenced!

I have been listening to this podcast for a while and found the latest episode very informative and I learned many new facts. James mentioned that some listeners may not appreciate so many details, but I for one do. Many thanks for the hard work that obviously goes into making the podcast.

Talking Rubbish has become my new fav podcast, so much so that my 8 year old daughter complains loudly when she gets in the car and finds it on yet again….admittedly I am biased (hi Robbie & James!) - but honestly there is so much I’m learning each week that I never knew I wanted to know! The complexities of making purchasing decisions based around environmental health - and also human health - are vast and really hard to unravel as a consumer, so I appreciate that the format allows for examination of the minutia as well as the big picture. Guys, keep up the good fight for your growing band of Binfluencers!

This podcast is a breath of fresh air. I’m a fellow waste warrior and I’m busy catching up on all the episodes. I really enjoy the light heartedness of what could be a rather dull topic. As a South African immigrant I also love Robbie’s impersonations of the accent. I have so many rubbish or not questions but will catch up on all the episodes to check they haven’t been covered. Please keep it up. I’ve even got my kids hooked to listening during the school run.

Stumbled upon this podcast today and I’ve listened to a number of episodes. I would happily say I’m a recycling nut - and regularly dive through our household black bag to recover whatever I can, collect vapes off the street and pickup recoverables in the pack / beach / roadside. I’ve a real issue with flexible plastics and great to hear that discussion in an earlier episode, but I’d love to see collected curbside! Other topics I’d love to hear more about: deposit return, pens (my wife is a teacher!), worn out clothing / cloth, nappies and anything with “not currently recycled” printed on them! Keep up the good work.

I have powered through 77 episodes since Nov 25 and Talking Rubbish has officially rewired my brain. I now wash my recycling (in left over suds), hoard soft plastics, read every label twice and getting more frustrated that I cannot (yet) give the council my food waste. It’s fun, informative and somehow has made rubbish the highlight of my day. My only complaint? I am now stuck waiting a whole week for the next episode 😩. A full blown 5 star show. Listen at your own risk: you may become a better human.

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This podcast reduces my stress levels, I can reuse all the episodes and recycle the info to anyone who will listen. And I’m also pretty sure James & Robbie are compostable!

Yes - I now genuinely look forward to finding out about rubbish!

Surprisingly fascinating. Really makes you think.

Love it!

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Longtime listener to podcasts, medium-time listener to The Rubbish Podcast, first-time reviewer.When I tell my friends that I listen to a podcast about recycling they roll their eyes in worry that I am becoming a grotesque parody of myself, and few of them take my entreaties that it’s a great listen seriously.Those that do take me seriously, out of parental obligation, have caught the bug hook line and sinker. Inexplicably relaxing and endlessly informative, Robbie and James (listed in order of propensity to laugh like an elephant seal) are engaging, knowledgeable hosts, whose wisdom is great for passing off as your own, and lovely company. I listen as a silent third wheel of a conversation between friends that just happens to refer to Extended Producer Responsibility and DRS, as though I too know what a Murf(?) looks like, and all is right with the world.Everywhere you have people you have waste. Rubbish is therefore the most universal of subjects, the teeming systems that keep our pavements free of spilling binbags or, even more pertinently, not. My thanks to all the binmen and binwomen (binpeople?), the recycler pros, the washer-outers of jars and cans, the landfill enthusiasts, packaging nerds, and assorted recyclo-geeks, and to the podcast and podcasters that lifts the binlid on them. I salute thee. Considered me binfluenced. (I’m cancelling my WGAC subscription)

A consistently excellent podcast about rubbish, recycling and sustainability, with a great balance of industry insight and practical advice for the “average” person wishing make informed choices and do their bit from home.