Link magazine, Spring 2008 [PDF, 4,450k] - South Norfolk Council

12E N V I R O N M E N T A L S P E C I A L - P U L L O U T A N D K E E PYou asked South Norfolk Council’s Chaz and Dave:“What happens to the recycling inmy green recycling bin?”Contamination costs! We have to pay extra to dispose of anything thatgoes in recycling bins which can’t be recycled... this costs us all. Makesure you know what can go in your green recycling bin.Chaz Scholefield,Direct Services ManagerAll of the recycling is made intonew products ready for you to useEnvironmental Servicesagain. This fleece can be madeThe Recycling Team often gets callsout of 25 plastic pop bottles!and emails asking “What happens toOnce you have finished withthe things I put in my green recyclingpaper, cardboard, cans, tinsbin?” All of the recycling collected and plastic bottles they can be 11from households in South Norfolk isrecycled again…taken to the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) owned by Norfolk Environmental Waste Services in Costessey. Last year in South Norfolk, we sent over 7,600 tonnes of recycling to the MRF to be sorted by some of the most hi-tech machinery in Europe. V-screen at the Materials Recycling Facility.Plastic bottles and cans go along a conveyorbelt and pass under a big overhead electromagnet. This removes all the steel cans. Aspecial electrical current then ‘flicks’ aluminiumcans off the belt. The separated cans are thensquashed and baled and taken away to berecycled. Plastic bottles continue along the beltand are sorted into 3 different types of plasticbottle, before being flattened and baled. Theplastic bottles are then sent to be recycled,mainly in the UK and Europe...Shredded paperand envelopes gumup our machinery!Please don’t put thesein the recycling bin.56Paper goes along a conveyorand passes across theNewscreen which separatesnewspaper and magazinesfrom mixed papers. Each paperstream passes under a Fibresortunit, which uses infra red toidentify contaminants in thepaper streams and uses jets ofair to blow these unwanted itemsoff the conveyor belts. All thepaper is baled and stored readyto be collected and sent to thepaper reprocessing mill...