Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury, the ‘Say What Wednesday’ Edition. We recently had an awesome email from Zoe about a potential market solution following the ‘Solution for pollution’ episode last week; “We sort our cans from our mixed recycling in our Sydney CBD office building to donate the 10c return to charity. We collect 50 cans per week on our floor which is on level 22 of a 23-level building. Staff are incentivised to sort their waste through the small charitable 10c donation. However, it is difficult to return cans in the city as there is no spare space to hold sorted recycling. This could be fixed if we could hold sorted recycling in our office buildings. Rather than sending mixed and often contaminated waste to large holding areas outside of the CBD, we could send clean product directly to appropriate recycling facilities.  There are hundreds of office building across the country holding contaminated recycling then paying waste companies to remove their rubbish. With a small 10c donation to charity for e