 What does climate action mean to me means doing what we can when we can as often as we can We never can do everything, but if we all do just a little bit, it'll make a big difference My name is Chris. I run Sassafas of Paddington in Paddington, Brisbane. We are a sustainable cafe So I'm a chef by trade and grew up on a cattle and small crops mix farm Which means that we were fairly well self-sufficient sustainable for the environment But we're also able to enjoy the benefits of that and that has really instilled in me a Philosophy to carry that on and do the same thing and bring that to the city Share that philosophy with the rest of the world So when I took over Sassafas here about ten years back, we used to use just general waste bins So to put it in perspective, we were using about ten really bins a week There was a few problems arising from that one it was the cost involved two we had Pest and vermin three during summer all of that material because it was only being collected once a week We're starting to create a bit of a bad odor and we needed to solve all of these problems And we started to look at our organic waste and trying to find a solution for having that Waste not going to landfill and also to have it collected more readily how we would store that waste how we would get that Waste transported to a composting plant So we started working with a contractor who was able to collect our organic waste a few times a week And that helped us to eliminate the odors and the pests in the vermin problem that we had it also enabled us to Reduce the amount of landfills from ten wheelie bins a week down to just two We've been able to save about a ton of waste from going to landfill every month So over the year we're looking at saving greenhouse gas emissions by not sending all that organic waste to landfill We also turn all of our used cooking oil into biodiesel both of those help us save quite a lot of emissions each year I would encourage other hospitality businesses to jump on board and have a look online for some great resources There are definitely contractors out there who can help you out for a very very good price To effectively take care of your waste By doing this it's actually saving us up to 50% costs on our waste management And it's helping to reduce our other purchases probably by about 10 to 15 percent over the year as well It's not as difficult as it seems to get yourself on board and it actually makes economic sense to do so