Inexplicably wonderful listening, become the Rubbish Nerd your parents warned you about

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)