Hello everyone!
I’m spending the day with some real recycling trucks today.
to see how these amazing vehicles tidy away our waste whilst also looking after our planet!
There’s so much happening here at the recycling depot with trucks coming and going!
Just look at how the little forklift trucks zoom around taking the rubbish out of the
sides of the trucks and tipping them into their own special places.
But our story begins at home!
Have you ever wondered what happens to the rubbish you put in your bins?
Recycling trucks have special days when they come past your house to collect all of the
rubbish.
Recycling is a way of separating different types of rubbish that you throw out, so that
it can be used again and again.
This all starts at home, so it’s up to all of us to separate plastics, paper, cans and
food waste into their different bins to get them ready for collection!
Here comes the truck now!
It’s purple!
I LOVE purple!
This is Simon and Daniel, and they drive the recycling truck down the street, collecting
all of this rubbish.
They jump out of the truck and put the different types of rubbish in their own special place
onboard!
Look there’s a place for everything.
Cans and plastic go here, glass goes in here, food waste goes in here, with paper and cardboard
at the back in these compartments.
When the truck is full it’s time to head back to the depot to empty everything out!
First, the truck drives onto some weighing scales.
These are just like scales in your bathroom at home, but instead of weighing people, they
weigh trucks!
This tells the control centre just how much rubbish is on board the truck.
Then its time for the zoomy little forklifts to do their whizzy work.
They pull each container out from the sides of the truck and drive them to their own special
place at the depot.
Wow listen to that noisy glass!
Huge bulldozers are used to push all the loose materials into a big pile.
Then to make everything smaller so that it can easily transported for recycling, loose
materials like plastic, cans and paper are squashed into bales.
The final stage of recycling is called reprocessing.
This is the bit where these bales are turned into something new that we can use again!
The bales are taken on the back of big lorries to special factories for reprocessing.
Glass can be melted down and made into new bottles, and the bales of cans can also be
melted and turned into new cans ready to be filled with new drinks!
When we recycle, it means we don’t have to cut down new trees to make paper, we can
keep reusing the paper we already have!
Recycling is amazing, but not as amazing as our beautiful planet that we all live on.
That’s why we have to work together to recycle and reuse our rubbish.
Thanks to all the team at Kier for taking me out on their special recycling trucks today.
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See you again soon!
Byeeeeeee.