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RRA Mitchell Shire - Deputy GM Ally Glendenning, Kelly and Matt interviewed on Seymour 103.9 FM - August 2026
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Jeff. Good morning.
SPEAKER_03Good morning to you, Damon. Good morning to all our listeners. And Damon, we've been tracking. How much longer have we got left in winter?
SPEAKER_04Uh, you know what? We've got about five days left. Can it please warm up a bit, please? Yeah, it's rather been chilly, but uh it's a rather warm atmosphere in our studio today because we have the studio packed out. We have, we certainly do, Damo. Oh, it's just wonderful. And this is just fantastic to see smiling faces. Uh we'll kick it off. The due the Deputy General Manager of Resource Recovery Australia, Ali Glen Dinnings in the studio. How are you?
SPEAKER_02Good morning, Damien. I'm fantastic.
SPEAKER_04Uh, can you pull the microphone a little bit closer to you? That would be great. Yeah, how are you going?
SPEAKER_02Very well, thanks, Damien.
SPEAKER_04Oh, it's good to see you back. Uh, of course, you've flown in overnight and uh you're in Seymour, but you're from the Adelaide Hills. How did you survive with the rain out there?
SPEAKER_02Oh, look, we've had a lot of rain in the last few weeks, let me tell you. The good weather for ducks.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. It's just uh great to see you here. Uh what's been happening since we last saw you?
SPEAKER_02Uh what's been happening? We've had a lot happening right around Australia with all our stores. Great donations coming in, uh, lots of people visiting the stores, and um things have been going nice down here in Seymour and Wallon.
SPEAKER_04Yep, as we are following on the Facebook pages, uh always love the mystery item, don't you? Certainly love that that part of it, Dama, for sure.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yep, yep. Uh Jeff, uh you got some questions to ask Allie? I certainly have Allie. You uh just wanted to know a bit of your background. Previously you were a chef, I believe.
SPEAKER_02I was, absolutely, Jeff.
SPEAKER_03How did it come about that you ended up getting the this role of the Deputy General Manager of Resource Recovery Australia? How did that all It's it's a funny thing, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02Like going from a chef to uh working in the waste industry. But uh for me we had a uh there was a shop like this, a reuse shop in Moss Vale, and I used to frequent it quite a bit because I love old things and I think you know to be in these shops you have to have a a feeling or a flair for those old things. So I w I was just in there one day and Mission Australia actually happened to take the shop over, and they were looking for someone to run the shop and um they asked me, Were I interested what when I was in there? And I said yes I was, and then it happened from there, and then resource recovery took over two years after that, and then I just uh yeah, went from running the Moss Vale shop into then a regional sort of manager, and then from there on, yeah, into running all the revivors and becoming the deputy general manager.
SPEAKER_03You mentioned off air that you're going to Darwin in a couple of days. How do how do you handle the travel? There's a lot of travel involved.
SPEAKER_02Uh there is a lot of travelling involved, but all I can say is it's always great to see our teams and what the shop is doing. Uh I I would say the RRA, we call it RRA for short, um, is just it's just like one big family, and all our team members right across the country get in contact with each other. We have a monthly meeting, so everybody knows everybody, so it is a real family feel.
SPEAKER_03Certainly would be. Is there a a master plan to target more stores Australia-wide?
SPEAKER_02Look, for us, it's really important to keep waste out of the waste stream, so anywhere we can do this in any town or city across Australia, we're keen to.
SPEAKER_03Oh, fantastic. Well, it's also Damo in the studio. Yep. We've got the Callie, uh, the area manager of Seymour. Welcome to you, Callie.
SPEAKER_01Good day, how's it going?
SPEAKER_03And also we've got the manager of the Wallins Centre, Damo Matt. Welcome to you, Matt.
SPEAKER_06Good morning, guys. How are you?
SPEAKER_04Good to see you, Matt.
SPEAKER_06It's good to see you too, mate.
SPEAKER_04It's really good to see you, Kelly. Um, I've seen you on all the Facebook mystery item videos. I just love what you're doing on Facebook.
SPEAKER_01Oh, thank you. Yeah, my uh favourite finds of the week. I have a good laugh doing those videos, and everyone seems to love them.
SPEAKER_04Uh so can I ask you, uh Kelly, are you born and bred in Seymour?
SPEAKER_01I'm not, but I have been here since late primary school.
SPEAKER_04So late primary school years. You know the area well.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yeah, I do, yeah.
SPEAKER_04So working out at the uh Revivor Shop, do you enjoy it?
SPEAKER_01Oh, absolutely, yeah. It's a great job out there. I love um, you know, all aspects of it, getting to uh help out the community, save things from landfill, you know, and retail is yeah, I love retail.
SPEAKER_03Just on a bit of your background, Kelly. Uh how long have you been involved with the Revivor Shop and what were you doing before this role?
SPEAKER_01So I've been um involved with the Revivor Store since it's opened here back in March. Um and prior to that I was working at Toy World here in Seymour for quite a few years. Yeah, so quite a few years at Toy World. Um and yeah, I've worked in a few local businesses in town, and originally my background is also a chef.
SPEAKER_03Oh, you chef! Well, same question you how did it come about if you were working at Toy World that you got this position as the area manager with the revivor shops?
SPEAKER_01Um, well, a a friend of mine actually actually saw that the job was going and suggested that I might be a good fit for a position like this. And um, yeah, I'm a big community person, um, and also, you know, I really like to save things from landfill and recycle and uh love some secondhand furniture, you know. That's yeah, all the things that I like, it fit perfectly.
SPEAKER_04Um have you got enough room in your house? What I'm saying, do you find some bargains out there that you just love and you have to take them home? Oh, look because that's what I do.
SPEAKER_01Yes, it can be hard, yes.
SPEAKER_04There's been compulsive buying.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, I'm actually quite good at it. I don't have a very big house, so I can't fit a lot, so that's helped me.
SPEAKER_04Now, can I ask you, uh just off the top of your head, what are some of the standout items that have been donated where you have gone, wow.
SPEAKER_01Well, I would say the video I recently did with the um portable hairdryer, that was quite cool because I thought it was just a case, a beauty case, and when I opened it, it was inside. We got it tag tested, it all worked, and it you know, for something from the mid-60s to still be working in perfect condition, nearly. Um, there was a gramophone which was super.
SPEAKER_04I loved that. I wanted that, and I had to refrain from coming and buying it.
SPEAKER_01And and like something like that when it came in, yeah, it wasn't like fully working, but I just looked into it, did a bit of research, and got it going myself. So that was really cool, you know. I'm learning a lot.
SPEAKER_03Learning as you go. Uh, welcome to you, Matt. You're the manager of the Walland Centre. Yes, that's correct. How long have you been in that role?
SPEAKER_06So I started the same as Kelly in March. Um, so we opened the same day.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_06Um, yeah, that's um I enjoy doing the role. I'm by myself, so I don't have anyone Oh, you manage the whole lot by yourself.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, myself, yeah.
SPEAKER_06So but that's good because I place myself, like I set myself tasks. So like if I need to go to e-waste, I'll go to e-waste at this time. If I need to go up to the um Al Cages, I'll go up to the cages and go go through the cages, any donations that were um bring to bring them down back to the shop. And I just keep the shop neat and tidy because my background is um retail. Retail. So I've been in retail for over 26 years. Wow, you don't look old enough, mate. I know I always get saying that, but I am old. So just to clarify, I'm very old. But um, yeah, I love retail. So retail it's always changing every day. So you go into a shop, um, it you don't know what's gonna happen. So that's what I love about retail. And I love about this job too, you don't know what items we're gonna get. We might get a lot of certain items one day than certain items the next. So that's what I love about it. And it's all stuff that we can use again, which is good. So it's all good quality stuff we get in, and the customers are very happy with our our pricing and our service.
SPEAKER_03You brought up a good point, and I might go back to you, Ali, on uh all the donations that come in. How do you price it all? It's a good price for you know the people to shop around and buy.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, Jeff, we we like to be really fair in our pricing. So we have a few different ways that we do it. We do have our own internal price guide that was written, you know, some years ago, taking all the things into consideration, um, you know, such as the quality of the item, the age of the item, uh the make. Uh, but mainly our staff tend to use Google Lens or eBay or um Gumtree or any one of those um you know platforms where items are available to look at and gauge against. So the staff do a lot of research on all of our items to make sure that our pricing is really fair.
SPEAKER_03Excellent, excellent. I was gonna ask you, Kelly, um where do the um the proceeds of all the incoming with when you sell things, where does that get distributed to?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so we're a not-for-profit organization and the way it works with us is all the money comes um back into us. So into the staff and training opportunities, um, and you know, to keep everything going, equipment that we might need. But yeah, it's all all sort of a circular back into to our daily work. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's amazing what you you you actually do for the community. Now, uh I'll quickly run over this.
SPEAKER_01The uh revivor shops are open when from uh so both of our stores, Seymour and Wallon, are sat uh Thursday through to Sunday and ten till four o'clock.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I always get the days mixed up, but I wanted the listeners to know when you can pop out. They're easy to find. You just go to the uh to the Wallen or the Seymour transfer station.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the uh recovery centres and yeah. Recovery centre at Seymour is uh not open, the tip itself on a Friday, but we are definitely open. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and by the smile on your face, you can both see uh both of you, including Matt, that you absolutely enjoy your jobs.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we're very lucky. It's a really great job. The company we work for is amazing, and what we get to do on a daily basis, and then the widest spread uh you know effects towards the community and what we're doing. Yeah, it's great. It really is.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, look, I was down at the uh Wallen uh Reviver shop yesterday. I went in to see Maddie for five minutes. Uh Matt, I stayed about two hours till. Two hours, that's correct. Yes, you did. I even went back for a second time, Jeff. And in the next part of the interview, we got it to disclose why I was in there and the bargain that I picked up. And Matt, the way you've got the shop set out there is wonderful. Thank you very much. Uh and just to see the people browsing around the items, Jeff. Um, portable barbecues, um, cutlery, um, glassware, furniture, beautiful coffee tables, and dirt, dirt, dirt cheap. Cheap, exactly. Super cheap. Yeah, so Matty, you do a wonderful job. And you know what, Callie? I'm gonna pop out to the Seymour one because I want to have a look at that one as well. So I'm gonna head out there one day and surprise you.
SPEAKER_01That would be fantastic. We've been waiting for you.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, Matt, you were saying that you run the store by yourself. That's correct, yes. Is there a need for volunteers? And you're always on the lookout, Callie. Do you have volunteers that help you at the Seymour?
SPEAKER_01Uh I have staff, so uh there's always uh another staff member on with me for a few hours a day on and on opening days. Um but yeah, yeah, volunteers are welcome. Um, yeah, do there's lots of different ways you could volunteer. You might like to come in and fix up some mowers, you might have an interest in books where you can um let us know, you know, this book over here is worth much more than two dollars. Or uh, yeah, just you know, get out into the uh out of your home if you know, if you're looking for something to do in your t spare time, you might want to spend a few hours out hanging out with us and helping out around the shop.
SPEAKER_03Do you both uh to you, Matt, do you do your own pricing when new items come in?
SPEAKER_06Yes, I do, yes. So I what um Ali was saying that I Google Lens and see what the prices are, the market prices, and I'll make them a little bit cheaper because we don't want to compete with the same um pricing. So we want to make a bit cheaper.
SPEAKER_04It's a great initiative for the whole for the whole Mitchelshire, and uh these two shops are beautifully run. Now, Jeff, it's not the first time I've been into the Wallon one. No, come on, tell us the story, Damon. I'll tell you the the first story, and in the next bit I'll tell you the second story. The first time I go in there, me working in radio, my idol was Graham Kennedy. Yes, yeah. Uh a famous radio man, television man. I walk in for three bucks the whole DVD set of Graham Kennedy the King. I've just got to have this. So I it's sitting on my shelf at home. Matt, awesome. That was my first buy. I'll tell you about the second buy later.
SPEAKER_03I'll just tell you, I actually, this is showing my H now. I went, he had the show in Melbourne tonight. Yep. I actually went, was in the audience many moons ago. I won't say many moons when he had the show, but he was like the king of TV in those days, wasn't he, in the 50s, 60s, 70s.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but to get that bargain out of out of the uh reviver shop in Wallon was just great. You know what? On that note, we're gonna take a break and we're gonna come back with the uh Deputy General Manager Resource Recovery Australia, Allie Glen Dinning, and also Callie, who is the area manager from the revivor shop in Seymour, and good old Maddie sitting over in the corner who looks after the revivor shop in uh Wallon. We'll be back in a moment on the streets of your town. This is 103.9 Seymour FM. We're making our way through a Wednesday morning with a studio of lovely people in-house today as we wind through this Wednesday morning and we keep going with the interview. Our Deputy General Manager of Resource Recovery Australia, Allie Glen Dennings, in the chair, along with Matt and Kelly, who were both from the uh revivor shops in Seymour and Wallingef.
SPEAKER_03Yes, Damo, and I was gonna ask Allie um the tender process when you're looking for new sites which you are Australia-wide, what's what's involved with that process?
SPEAKER_02Look, Jeff, um most councils decide that they uh need a not-for-profit social enterprise to run, you know, these shops uh and transfer stations we also do. Um, and so in that when they put out um uh a tender and they have to do that every so many years, you know, a tender is usually around five, five to eight years. Uh they uh we'll put the tender out, we'll apply. There's lots of other companies that can apply too, but um uh we we're we're popular, of course, because we are value for money and we're well aligned with councils, and I can certainly say that Mitchelshire here, you know, could see that alignment and know that we could uh you know do something great for them.
SPEAKER_03Do you have to sort of like have a scout that's sort of looking out for potential new sites? It's part of their job with the Resource Recovery Australia?
SPEAKER_02There is. It's uh our general manager Matt Curtis, he has uh access to the tender portals, and so they'll come across his desk and he'll um decide whether that opportunity is worthwhile for us.
SPEAKER_04Right, Allie. So um on the drawing board at the moment, we know that you've locked in Darwin. Um you're also in Grafton as well.
SPEAKER_02Yes, we are. That's uh Clarence Valley, and so there's a few sites up there. There's eight sites altogether that we run for Clarence Valley.
SPEAKER_04Uh and successfully doing it like down here in the Mitchelshire?
SPEAKER_02Look, we opened their Grafton shop um a couple of months ago, and it has gone gangbusters.
SPEAKER_04Well done. Well done.
SPEAKER_02Looking forward to opening one um for them up in McLean, hopefully sometime around Christmas.
SPEAKER_04Where's McLean for people down in Victoria?
SPEAKER_02It's northern New South Wales.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so just just up before the border, really, an hour before the Queensland border.
SPEAKER_03Will you eventually go out west too, to Western Australia? Is that in the world?
SPEAKER_02Oh look, we'd love to, and if an opportunity came up, if there was a tender out there, we'd definitely definitely be keen.
SPEAKER_04It's amazing, in Australia-wide. Yeah, because you don't have one in Tasmania, do you, at the moment?
SPEAKER_02No, we've looked at a couple of tender opportunities over there and have actually gone for one, but it was given to a local uh not-for-profit, which is also great. I mean, when not not-for-profit social enterprises are winning these things, we're happy.
SPEAKER_04You know what, Allie, you don't like Darwin because it's too hot.
SPEAKER_02That's right.
SPEAKER_04Uh I lived in Tassie for five years and it's too cold.
SPEAKER_02No, I'm I'm happy to go there. The colder the better.
SPEAKER_04I agree with you, Allie. All right, Matt, uh, let's get down to business with you.
SPEAKER_06You you're a Wallon boy, aren't you? Yes, so I lived in Wallon for over 20 years. Yeah. Um, originally from Craigyband, so I've always been on the outskirts of Melbourne. Right.
SPEAKER_04Now, uh, what's your background? Who have you worked for before you become to the Revivor Shop?
SPEAKER_06Yes, I worked for the Salvation Army, Salvo stores, yep. In Melbourne, um, a couple of stores, and I actually work for the Vinny's company too. So I've been in the secondhand opportunity um business for over six years now.
SPEAKER_04So I you you you're a master at then, you know, they they you're well hired with the wealth of experience that you've got. Uh for you, what are the standout? Is there a standout item that's ever been donated to the shop that you have gone wow?
SPEAKER_06Well, I had that um one I think I've shown you, the Cliff Richards one you showed me about the um the record. Yeah. That was only for the um uh for radio play only.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, what it is, Jeff. When um when albums are first released and given to the radio station, they're stamped um sample only, not for sale. Okay, yep. So that it's a pretty rare find to get these. Obviously, somebody I've got them at home because I've worked in radio, but these are like first editions. These haven't even been released, so they they're worth big money. Now, I was in there yesterday. Let me share you the story. Tell us about it, Damo. Silly Damo decided that he's going to Defrosty's fridge and got impatient. So he put a knife into the freezer box and stabbed the thing and gassed myself. And gassed yourself, gassed myself. Out the gas come everywhere. Now, the the good thing about this was because I degassed the fridge, it was free to dump it at the transfer station in the metal bin. So that was free. I whiz around to Matt No Go, can you help me out? And he's got a little bar fridge there. He saved, Matt, you saved the day, but I was disappointed because he said to me uh two days earlier, I had a better one here, but I've already sold it, so I'm still on the lookout for it, Matt. Definitely, yes.
SPEAKER_06We did get a lot of good quality items.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and you've got it well set out there uh with everything down there. Um what do you love about the job the most?
SPEAKER_06Um I love that we're saving it from landfill. Yeah. Because they come in, the customers come in and do you want this? Yes, we'll take it. Because it will go straight to landfill if it didn't happen. So that's that's a big thing. And I love the customer service. I love customers coming in, we've got regular customers and hi mate, how you going? So I love I love that side of feel. And um I just I just love what we're doing for the company.
SPEAKER_05Now, one thing I'm gonna we're gonna have a laugh here. Yeah, what did one man buy off a mannequin doll yesterday? He bought a dress, he bought a $15 dress, and um yeah, I said, You're gonna look very pretty in that one, aren't you, mate? And it was a running joke, and I think his wife was there. His wife was there, for some reason he wanted the dress.
SPEAKER_04He could be buying it for his daughter, maybe. No, maybe he was buying it for his wife to take her out on a wedding anniversary or something. But um the place has a really good friendly vibe, Matt, and we were all laughing about it.
SPEAKER_03I I had a great time down there. Kelly was going to ask you, uh, do you have any standout memorable items over the the journey that really sticks with you?
SPEAKER_01Oh, there's always great items coming in. So um, you know, the antique furniture, I really love that. I I'm right into the mid-century modern type era, so when things like that come in, that's really hard for me to hold back.
SPEAKER_07Yep.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, yeah, there's great stuff. Like I said, with the gramophone, um, that was fantastic. Um, yeah, always different stuff. It's hard to pick out s single items because there's just so many great things.
SPEAKER_03I bet you would be by now, you would probably wouldn't have to worry about looking up what the price. You would probably have an idea when an item comes in. You and Matt too and Allie would all know, well, I think that's about the price, but I'll just check. But you would have a good eye for it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, I look, I actually I have been thinking lately I'm getting good at this. It was it was a new industry to me, and um, yeah, so I was pretty strict on going to the price guide. I do look things up because you want to make sure you're being fair, fair to you know, to the to the not-for-profit that I work for, and fair to the customer, you know. So um, yeah, sometimes you think, oh, maybe I'll just look this up and see if maybe there is a bit of extra value in there that I know of. But yeah, no, it yeah, it's great.
SPEAKER_03Have you had any weird and wacky items that have really stood out to you that have come through the system?
SPEAKER_01Oh, nothing too much that I can think of. There is at the moment uh a bottom of a dog with the tail, and people keep asking, what is that? And it hangs on the wall. It's a hook to hang your jacket on, but it's the bottom. Of a dog.
SPEAKER_04Oh, that's great. That's good. I love when you go through these shops and you see something that brings back a childhood memory, like a yo-yo, a Coca-Cola yo-yo. I remember them, and I saw one at the shop recently. I thought, oh, that takes me back to my childhood. So as Allie and I always said, one person's trash is another man's treasure.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. Correct.
SPEAKER_04So there is always a bargain out there for anyone. Now, not only do you guys do customer service, there would be sort of uh a psychological support network for some people that come in. Do you do you find that you get stories that are emotionally upsetting or anything with customers?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, look, customers um they do feel comfortable with you, which is really great. And yeah, we do have some um deep conversations, you know, there's light conversations, but yeah, you you do, you can see that, and um yeah, people do open up to you and tell you a few things about their story. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04That's a you've got a wonderful job. I might steal your job, Callie.
SPEAKER_01It is really nice, yeah. It is it is very nice.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I was gonna ask you, Allie, when you when you visit, like you in if you're going up to Darwin, what does a visit entail? What sort of things are you looking at? Is it just drop in and say hello, or are you just looking at how everything's running or the the whole operation?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, all of those things, Jeff. It's about connecting with the team and making sure that they're okay and that they don't need anything, or you know, if there's something that we you know have to get on to, like some book work or something, we'll do we'll do that. Um I'm there to make sure that the shops are in order and look good and are up to the revivor standard because we do have a standard. It is a retail experience for us. So um, you know, we always want to make sure that we're putting our best foot forward, I guess. And these shops here are always fantastic in Seymour and Wallin.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, uh working with the Mitchelshire like with Mary and that been a wonderful experience.
SPEAKER_02Mitchelshire have been absolutely amazing, is all I can say. They have just been so supportive of what we're doing. Um they they love it because you know it's great for them too to be offering this service to the community, you know. It's it's a win for them that here they are doing everything they possibly can to save landfill in, you know, a fantastic facility at Seymour. And, you know, I know that they'd love to build bigger at Wallen because it is quite small down there for the amount of people that we have. Uh, but they're you know they're they're absolutely on to that as well, and doing, like I say, the best that they can to provide for the community those, you know, quality secondhand items and keeping items out of landfill.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I know the CEO of Mitchell Shire, Mary, is over the moon with what's going on and uh speak to her regularly, and uh yeah, she she's all for the revivor shops, and that that's a wonderful thing that you're all working in together. Uh I'll go back to you, Kelly, and we'll quickly mention this. Um, big hello to Sam Hugle out there. Jeff? Yes. Um and I hope her pet pigs are going all right. Believe it or not, they get let inside near the open fire. Sam, you're part of the uh Thrive Hub in Seymour, but uh Callie, you've got a new casual member on board that by the name of Sue that has been brought to you by the Thrive Hub in Seymour. Can you tell us about that uh what's happened there?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. So um that is a part of what we do at RRA, is that we um we like to employ people, you know, who might have some barriers to employment, who've maybe been out of work for a while. And um, yeah, Sue's been involved there at the Thrive Hub and previously with the Seed Project.
SPEAKER_05Yep.
SPEAKER_01And um, yeah, so she, you know, was supported by them to come and apply for the job. And um, yeah, we're so lucky to have her. She's been a real asset to to us out there at Revivor, and yeah, she's she's a great employee. We love her.
SPEAKER_04Excellent, excellent. And that's that's part of the networking in in town as well, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01Absolutely, yeah. They do great things there at the Thrive Hub.
SPEAKER_04Now, to put you on the spot when you're a chef, did you actually cook in Seymour?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I did. I uh ran the Railway Club Hotel for quite a few years back in my back in my twenties.
SPEAKER_04This is why we call it the streets of your town. Yeah, because we always say, Jeff and I, and we're always on the hunt, because we would walk past you in the street. We would not know that you were Callie.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And uh yet we do now through the uh the Facebook of the uh reviver shops, we know who you are now, but there's always another side to somebody, and like, hang on, you're a chef.
SPEAKER_01I was, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it was and you cooked at the at the railway. And I'm like, well, there you go. With the these are the people in the history that and people people that listen to the radio can relate to this. They will remember you as the chef.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, they'll remember me. A lot of people know me around town from the different jobs that I've had here for sure.
SPEAKER_03Wanted to ask Allie, we're talking about it briefly before Callie was referrals to people out there, people are struggling, cost of living, you know, places to live, rent is very high, housing. Do you have are you in connected with organisations that you can help people when they're struggling when they come in and see you?
SPEAKER_02We can, Jeff, you know, because uh w uh and the way we help straight up is that our items are at a very reduced price. So if you're looking for something, come and see us because inevitab inevitably we've got it at a at a price point that you can afford. You know, so let's take, you know, a suitcase for instance. We might have a $20 suitcase, but we also might have a $5 suitcase if someone needs it. You know, we're willing to help anyone that uh we can and anyone that's struggling and in need, and we have a great um uh I guess system in town here where we're in contact with all the other charities so that you know we can push someone to the right place, you know, to get the help that they need.
SPEAKER_03Yes, because there would be people a link to other yeah, yes. That's fantastic, because there's a lot of people. We've done a lot of interviews, haven't we, Doma, with the Harvest Hub, with St. Vincent de Paul, and then the what they highlight is the need and Paul from St. Vincent said that Mitchell Shire is the poorest Shire, didn't he? He was talking about that in all of the I think all of Melbourne or Victoria, I think he said, Yeah, so people generally need help and the way you do it by the lower prices certainly helps, and referral if they need help in other areas.
SPEAKER_02And there is just I'd like to just, you know, point out too, Jeff, that when people do donate that good quality, those great quality items to us, that's what allows us basically to, you know, keep this going around in its own little circular economy in an area where times are tough.
SPEAKER_03Yep. You mentioned donations, people can donate freely. Do you have to advertise that or usually they just come in, people are so good they'll just donate?
SPEAKER_02Look, I think people now that people know that we're there, they'll absolutely just come and donate, especially when they realise that we are a not-for-profit social enterprise and that what we are trying to do is help the community, that this this gives the community a great opportunity to to come in and buy those items cheap. And when someone wants to get rid of it, they don't want to see it go to landfill. So they know that that quality item is remaining in service and now is you know, the someone else can use it.
SPEAKER_04Yep. Well, you know what, guys, it's been great having you in the studio. Uh, I guess we call it a wrap. We've covered everything.
SPEAKER_03We have and thank you very much. Realize what a fantastic job that Resource Recovery Australia does. It's fantastic. Yep, Matt, we want to thank you for coming all the way up from Wacky Wallon.
SPEAKER_04Thank you very much. It's great to see your smiling face. Uh, to the area manager Callie and the video movie star of Facebook.
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SPEAKER_04Once chef, now bargain hunter. Yeah, we want to thank you for coming in as well.
SPEAKER_01Uh thanks for having us and thanks to the community for all the support.
SPEAKER_04And quickly before we let you two go, um the hours of the revivor shops again?
SPEAKER_01Uh yes, so it's Thursday through to Sunday and it's 10am to 4 p.m.
SPEAKER_04And you'll find it at the Wallen Transfer Station and the Seymour Transfer Station?
SPEAKER_03Just a quick one. How do you decide on the mystery of the week? The mystery item of the week.
SPEAKER_01Oh, so we just keep our eye out for things that come in, and uh, yeah, if we're stumped, maybe someone else will be as well.
SPEAKER_04Well said, Allie. And finally to the uh Deputy General Manager of Resource Recovery Australia, Allie Glen Dennings. Thank you for coming in again as always.
SPEAKER_02Thank you so much for being here, Damien and Jeff. It's always a pleasure. Like I say, I love Seymour and Wall and Mitchell Shire is yeah, definitely one of my favourite.
SPEAKER_04Yep, now uh you'll be back on a plane. Where are you heading to once you jump on a plane this afternoon?
SPEAKER_02Uh back to Adelaide this afternoon.
SPEAKER_04Back to the hills of Adelaide to home sweet home. Um and uh how are your little ducks going?
SPEAKER_02Look, they're loving life at the moment with all this rain.
SPEAKER_03Ellie, are you in the Mount Barker region?
SPEAKER_02Uh across the other side, Montacute side. So wonderful.
SPEAKER_04Guys, thanks for coming in. And uh when are you back again, Ellie?
SPEAKER_02Uh I'll be back in the beginning of October.
SPEAKER_04So in October, do you three want to pile in the studio again for another chat?
SPEAKER_02Sounds fantastic. Yeah, that'd be great. We'd love to.
SPEAKER_04Uh thank you very much for coming in.
SPEAKER_02Thanks for having us.
SPEAKER_04Thank you.