...or reduce, reuse, recycle! As part of our ongoing work on the environment, I had arranged two visits for HE families to our local Materials Recycling Facility to find out what happens next to the contents of our green bins, and the first of these was today.
Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take photos inside the actual plant, although Amy, the Waste Awareness Officer, has promised to send us a disk of stock pictures.
After a quick introductory talk, we donned our flourescent jackets and hard hats and headed in.
It was very dusty, and very noisy, so we were grateful for the headsets which allowed Amy to explain to us what was going on. I was amazed to find that their greatest problem is video tapes, which get tangled in the conveyors- it would never occur have occurred to me to put these in the green bin!
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