Recycling Plant Tour

A weird and random thing I did the other day was go on a recycling plant tour! It was actually quite interesting.

This is a photo of a recycling truck dumping its contents after collecting items from "blue bins" that residents put out in front of their homes. The truck collects the bins once a week. The most popular item to recycle is cardboard (from all the Amazon deliveries!)

[Lesley]

I’d be interested in that too. I love find out how things work.

[kali]

what a geeky tour haha How we all appease our capitalistic consciences , ours are yellow bins! very hard to avoid a pile of waste at the end of the fortnite, and in our outoftheway place a lot of it gets dumped in the landfill anyway!

[Suzanne]

Yellow recycling bins here. Tour sounds really interesting

[Ingrid]

We have a recycling bin too in where we combine paper, plastic and glass. I would love to have a tour and see how this works!

[Dawn]

So interesting I’d be into that too

[George]

A rubbish photo. Brilliant!

[Randy Lubbering]

I would bet most of that stuff is not recyclable. Pretty cool photo though

[Krista Marson]

@randy23 next step is the sorting machine!

[*lynn]

interesting shot

[Walks @ 7]

Tours should be a requirement for all to understand the process more.

[Diana]

Great capture of this fascinating subject!

[Richard Brown]

Interesting. Our bins don't allow black plastic which as someone who works in the plastic industry I find exasperating as the easiest colour to make recycled plastic is black!

[Issi Bannerman]

I would love to do this. I think it would raise awareness, and help people understand what happens to recycling but also to know what NOT to put in recycling bins. It should happen everywhere.

[Bill Davidson]

We have four bins, the smallest of which is for content that cannot be recycled. Each bin is emptied on a fortnightly basis.

[Brian]

Excellent choice of topic and image

[moni kozi]

@gaf005 Hahahaaaaa!!!!!