Transcript for 'What happens to my recycling? Waste collection contractors operate between 7 am and 6 pm; please wait until after 6 pm before submitting a request for missed collection. If your request concerns a missed collection, all material must remain at the curb to be collected once reported. If the week had a statutory holiday, your regular collection day may occur one day later. Your bin may not have been collected if it contained prohibited items.
If the week had a statutory holiday, your regular collection day may occur one day later Your bin may not have been collected if it contained prohibited items Report a problem with black bin collection. Video transcript: What happens to my recycling? Visual: Text appears. What happens to my recycling? Visual: Animated icons of recyclable material appear. Visual: Split screen — a full blue bin and a full black bin are being placed at the curb. Blue and black bins are collected on alternating weeks.
Visual: Truck stops, waste collection operator picks up bins, puts contents into vehicle. On average, each recycling truck makes 1, stops a day. Visual: Collection vehicle drives onto scale.
Visual: Blue bin icon re-appears. Conveyor belt moves glass, metal, plastic upwards. Visual: Conveyor belt now moves horizontally. Staff sifting through material. Visual: Hands with gloves pulling out items, throwing them into nearby opening. On the pre-sort line, workers open bags and remove garbage … Visual: Conveyor belt moving up again, material falling from top edge into machine with quickly shifting iron panels.
The ballistic separator removes 2 dimensional items… Visual: Plastic bags and film plastics falling into bunker, forming a large pile. Visual: Conveyor belt moving material upwards. The recyclables then travel up to the drum magnet. Visual: Animated graphic to show how magnetic sorting works. This spinning magnet captures tin cans and other metals and drops them onto a conveyor belt.
Visual: Conveyor belt moving materials. All materials other than metal and glass flow down the conveyor belt, towards 2 optical sorters. Visual: Staff removing garbage from conveyor belt. Workers at quality control stations remove any leftover non-recyclable items. Visual: Hands with gloves sorting what is left into chutes. The remaining materials continue on for manual sorting. A baler crushes various materials into cubes for easy shipping. Visual: Large cubes of aluminum, stacked.
Bales of steel such as tin cans… Visual: Bale of cartons. Bales are inspected for quality before they are shipped. Visual: Paper and cardboard items falling off a conveyor belt onto separate belts.
A disc screener sorts the large cardboard from the rest of the material. Visual: Pieces of cardboard moving upwards. The cardboard then travels directly on a conveyor belt to a baler. Visual: Paper and boxboard moving upwards. The remaining material is moved on two parallel conveyor belts to the main sorting room.
Visual: Staff sifting through material, putting items into different chutes. Visual: Large piles of cardboard and paper, separated by concrete walls. These materials are dropped into the appropriate bunkers directly below the main sort room. Visual: Growing pile of paper. The only remaining material is paper, which falls off the conveyor belts into its own bunker.
Visual: Tunnel full of items like bags, film plastic, bubble wrap. Garbage removed from the recycling is transported to landfill. Visual: Front-end loader dropping paper in front of baling machine. Material is then moved from the bunkers for baling. Visual: Large cube of boxboard leaving baling machine.
Visual: White truck leaving the facility. The material is made into new products. Visual: Animated water bottle appears, morphs into t-shirt. Number 1 bottles are transformed into fleece, t-shirts, and parkas. Visual: Animated laundry detergent bottle appears, morphs into pipe. Better still, consider buying a divided container that lets you sort as you dispose i.
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Even the fact that accepting plastic bags for recycling means you also get many non-recyclable plastic bags including sandwich bags, potting soil bags and plastic wrap. These have to be hand sorted by staff so other recyclables are not missed on our conveyor sorting line. Click here to download a printable version of the Press Release.
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