Australians make a real effort to manage their household rubbish, and most of us believe we’re good recyclers. But up to 35% of rubbish put in recycling bins ends up in landfill unnecessarily.

Dr Pooria Pasbakhsh joined us on the Thursday Daily to talk about how we can recycle better. He’s Research Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor in Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne.

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