Green Gorilla: taking out the trash (cleanly!)

Once you throw out a bag of rubbish you tend not to think about what happens to it, but we got to take a look behind the scenes at Green Gorilla; a rubbish sorting facility in south Auckland.
This isn't any ordinary 'tip' though. This one's clean! Everything on site is electric powered, either by a mains connection or by battery power, and that electricity is climate positive. They also have their own DC rapid charging onsite, plus they collect their own rainwater!
Why isn't every business doing this? Saving money and reducing environmental impact go hand in hand, so what Green Gorilla are doing is pretty inspirational!
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[@Moore30]

Great to see new tech cleaning up old rubbish. And I love the lack of noise and the staff not needing to wear ear defenders.

[@kristie8727]

What an amazing place. We need that as all our landfills in nz

[@jimi-w]

Looks like an awesome place! Great work Green Gorilla!

[@chriskirkman6049]

Great to see this in NZ

[@patrick7228]

Amazing

[@GraemeFullerton]

Great video Gavin. All about the good stuff we need to do more of ! Recycling !!

[@ZoneKei]

That's pretty rad. I hope they get busy soon!

[@fleachamberlain1905]

I love that the plant is all electric 😊 Side note: How much for the Holden 'driver training' sign?

[@ericwolff6059]

Excellent stuff. When are these machines coming to the Happy Valley Landfill in Wellington.

[@simes5000]

Like a giant kiwicrane

[@theunknownunknowns5168]

I'd bet, because I know it's true in Norway courtesy of TB, electric heavy machines will have a additional advantage of being able to work longer hours in built-up areas due to being quieter. So surely this new government is going to get productivity going by incentivising electric heavy machinery. Eight Billion dollars kiwi, $8,000,000,000 nzd per year. We give to authoritarian petrostates including the Kremlin by burning fossil fuels in Aotearoa.

[@justohall]

I thought you were calling your self the green gorilla!