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Let’s test your recycling knowledge…
What goes in your clear bag? Plastic bottles Plastic food Foil food trays Empty drinks and lids tubs and pots and food cans Empty spray Paper, Juice cartons Cardboard cans newspaper and envelopes
What goes in your yellow bag? All household batteries
What goes in your blue box? Glass bottles and jars
What goes in your green bin? Small branches Teabags, tea Bread and pastries Leftover food leaves and coffee Raw and uncooked Cheese and other Grass cuttings Leaves, weeds, meat, including bones dairy products – no soil! flowers, plants and twigs
What goes in your black bag? Cling film Used tissues Used nappies and and kitchen roll wet wipes Disposable coffee cups Animal poo Crisp, biscuit and and bedding sweet wrappers
So, what happens at Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park?
Stage 1 – arrival of the waste What happens here? Every waste wagon is weighed • upon arrival It then goes to our tipping hall • where the waste is sorted by the operatives in loaders They are weighed again when • they leave so we can keep track of how much waste was brought in
Stage 2 – sorting the waste What happens here? The black bags are split open and • the contents are emptied Moving conveyors are used to • move the waste about Plastic and metals are removed for • recycling and put into big blocks These are then sold on to be made • into other things
Stage 3 – organic waste What happens here? Organic waste is removed and • turned into compost We can also gather energy from • the bugs that create gases, which are then used to drive the turbine
Stage 4 – creating energy What happens here? We send what is left along a • conveyor to a big pit A grabber moves it into a big oven • where it is baked The large ovens then bake the • waste and the energy is produced in the gas coming from the waste Enough energy is created to power • over 11,000 homes!
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