The process (click to enlarge)
Bearing in mind the recycle debate going on I asked our Waste Szar for a visit to the local MERF (Materials Recycling Facility) located between Alton and Farnham. This is not to be confused with the tip in ElImoor Road in Farnborough (pictured above). I will try and explain and show with pictures what takes place.
You fill your blue bin and it gets taken to the MERF and emptied - paper, board and plastic
Plastic and paper is then loaded onto a conveyor belt together....
The machines and labourers sort it....
For the paper a huge industrial magnet takes out from the paper all metal like staples...
The paper is then further cleaned and refined and finally spills off the end of the conveyor into areas to be collected and recycled into newsprint:
While the plastic is collected and bailed in another part:
So do not listen to people who say it just gets put in with the rest of the waste - they are talking a load of rubbish!!
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