CRAIG REUCASSEL
Best known for his in-your-face presence on ABC TV’S The Chaser franchise (of which he was a founding member), Reucassel returns with his second season of the environmental warrior documentary, War on Waste (Tuesdays, 8.30 PM on ABC), which picked up a Logie for last year’s original four-part series. With this season focusing on plastic rubbish and e-waste, Reucassel talks garbage with WHO’S Cynthia Wang.
Congratulations on the Logie. Did you expect it for the first series? No, I didn’t. When we embarked on the show about going through people’s rubbish, I didn’t think it would be popular or win a Logie.
It seems the war on waste has become very personal to you ...
I certainly was interested in this area beforehand but I think the extent to which I’ve become fascinated by it and also the extent to which I’ve been able to change some of my own habits, it surprised me.
Are you inured to the smells you have been dealing with or is it still shocking?
It’s quite funny. We’re kind of really used to the smell of a tip nowadays. We can even kind of tell ... if you go to a bin and they don’t have food waste it always smells so much less as well.
Do you have a habit now, of walking by bins and being curious?
I genuinely don’t go and look in my neighbour’s bin.
Is it endearing or odd that people show you photos of their bin?
It’s very endearing. I love seeing inside people’s bins!