Episodes
Today on Trash Talk, Kenny Lam from Love Recycling Plus shares with Marcy Trent Long about his goal of helping everyone in Hong Kong get into the habit of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Published 11/06/23
ADMCF’s Sam Inglis comes onto Trash Talk this week to share with Marcy Trent Long their latest report on wildlife trade in Hong Kong.
Published 10/30/23
This week on Trash Talk, Pokfulam District Councillor Paul Zimmerman talks to Marcy Trent Long about his 20-year journey in designing Hong Kong and protecting Hong Kong’s waterfront and nature.
Published 10/16/23
Founder Ocean Recovery Alliance Doug Woodring comes onto Trash Talk this week to tell Marcy Trent Long about legos not adopting recycled plastics into their materials and the negotiations on the UN global plastic treaty.
Published 10/10/23
This week on Trash Talk, Marcy Trent Long speaks with Heidi Spurrell, Founder and CEO of Future Green, about sustainability and big issues in the food and beverage industry in Hong Kong.
Published 09/25/23
This week on Trash Talk, repair expert Andrew Kinghorn talks to Marcy Trent Long about the difficulty of repairing and fixing broken appliances and furniture at home.
Published 09/18/23
Maggie Tse, the Event Director at ReThink Hong Kong comes onto the show today to tell Marcy Trent Long more about their Rethink conference, this year.
Published 09/11/23
Breer founders Anushka Purohit and Naman Tekriwal speak with Marcy Trent Long on this week’s Trash Talk about how they use leftover bread to create craft beers.
Published 09/04/23
Plastic Treaty, Dana Winograd This week on Trash Talk, Marcy Trent Long speaks with Dana Winograd from Trash Talk’s partner Plastic Free Seas about the plastic treaty.
Published 08/28/23
This week on Trash Talk, Marcy Trent Long speaks with Jeff Bond from Elevate, LRQA, an organisation that provides social supply chain and environmental audits; and they talk about traceability and sustainable supply chains.
Published 08/21/23
This week, Marcy Trent Long speaks with Sam Nunn from Hilti Group about his scheme that leases the use of construction tools to make them more sustainable.
Published 08/14/23
ALBA’s Nigel Mattravers comes onto the show today to discuss with Marcy Trent Long about the idea of advanced waste sorting facilities in Hong Kong and what can be done to get us back on track to better reuse and recycling here.
Published 08/07/23
Marcy Trent Long speaks with Linda Burgoyne, CEO of Matilda International Hospital, about their green charter back in 2018 and their green efforts in these past years under the charter.
Published 07/31/23
This week, Crystal Wu steps in for Marcy and speaks to Michelle Yu from Junior Chamber International Tai Ping Shan, to tell us about their medicine collection programme, which aims to reduce water and soil pollution from medicine and antibiotics.
Published 07/24/23
Marcy Trent Long speaks with Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum’s education officer Deirdra Wirakusumah about the history of this new museum, as well as the unique biodiversity in Hong Kong.
Published 07/17/23
This week on Trash Talk’s 200th episode, Marcy Trent Long chats with Parks & Trails CEO Agnes Cheng about the waste situation on hiking trails currently and the impacts of removing trash bins from hiking trails.
Published 07/10/23
This week on Trash Talk, Marcy Trent Long speaks with Trash Talk friend Sidhant Gupta, founder of the Clearbot project, about how a university project transformed into a growing eco-entrepreneurship
Published 07/03/23
Marcy Trent Long speaks with Dr. Yan Wa-tat from the Hong Kong Marine Ecological Association about their flagship project and how oysters can save our seas.
Published 06/26/23
This week on Trash Talk, Merlin Lau, Head of Policy of the Business Environment Council shares with Marcy Trent Long about their findings on their Zero Waste Design for Buildings Report.
Published 06/19/23
Marcy Trent Long speaks to Daniel Leung, Hong Kong Housing Authority’s Assistant Director of the Development & Construction Division, about HKHA’s pilot program with modular integrated construction and how it helps reduce construction waste while buil...
Published 06/12/23
Fiona Sykes from ARUP comes onto the show today to share with Marcy Trent Long about her work in ARUP that reduces construction waste and focuses on designs that would minimize waste generation.
Published 06/05/23
Marcy Trent Long speaks with Circular City’s Tim Parker about how he started an eco-start up after working as a teacher teaching kids about reuse and recycling.
Published 05/29/23
Marcy Trent Long speaks with Fanny Lee from Feeding Hong Kong about their latest program that involves food businesses in their mission to reduce food waste.
Published 05/22/23
This week on Trash Talk, Marcy Trent Long speaks with EPD’s Vanessa Mak about the government’s implementation of the Enhanced Plastic Shopping Bag Charging Scheme.
Published 05/15/23
This week on Trash Talk, Marcy Trent Long speaks with Chester Cheng, co-founder of Carbon Wallet about how his start-up gives positive reinforcement to the general public’s environmentally friendly actions and motivates them to do more.
Published 05/08/23