When you place your recyclable waste into that yellow bin marked for recycling, what happens to it? From the moment the rubbish is taken off your property, quite a lot goes into the process of turning rubbish into a usable format at the recycling station.
4 Waste is a Brisbane rubbish removal company that focuses on environmentally friendly waste disposal. In this article, I’ll take you through the entire journey from when we collect the rubbish from your home to the process it undergoes at the recycling station.
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The Rubbish Arrives at the Recycling Station
Once the rubbish leaves your home, it heads straight for the recycle station where it is emptied onto the tipping floor. Next, the material goes through preliminary sorting by the Recycling Station workers to ensure that materials that are not recyclable are taken out.
After the initial sorting, the material is tipped into a hopper using a loader; from there it is all placed on a large conveyor belt for further sorting by workers. This process is to make sure that there are no contaminants which could cause harm to the plant or compromise the quality of the end product.
Taking the Rubbish through the Trommel
The recycling journey at the recycling station is almost like several degrees of separation and the trommel is another level of separation. This is a large cylinder that is used to sort out the material according to shape and size. It is almost like a sieve that rotates. By the time your rubbish has gone through the trommel, the flat pieces will be in one place and the container material would be in another place.
The separation process is necessary because the different kinds of materials are processed in different ways. For instance, a ballistic separator is used to shake off the broken glass from cardboard and paper before separating it, while some recycling stations use optical sorters that make use of cameras to separate plastic containers, placing them in different grades.
Each item that has been sorted is packed in bales and then moved to other facilities for further processing.
Sorting Your Household Rubbish
It is important to know what you can and cannot put in your recycle bin. Not every waste material can be recycled and sorting it out beforehand saves a lot of trouble, particularly if you are taking it to the recycling plant yourself.
While waste materials such as paper, cardboard, plastic containers, aluminium cans, glass bottles and jars are among some of the items that can be recycled, others like ropes, hoses and plastic bags cannot be recycled. As a matter of fact, if you put your recyclable waste in a plastic bag, it can’t be recycled.
If you are not sure about what is recyclable and what isn’t, this recycling guide can help. Otherwise, just order one of our Junk skip bins, throw in all your rubbish and leave the sorting to our skilled rubbish removalists. It helps that our skip bins are large and have a uniquely designed rear hinge door to make it easy for you to dispose of your rubbish.
Conclusion
The rubbish removal journey from your home to the recycling station begins when you drop your rubbish in your skip bin. The waste trucks take the rubbish to the recycling station where it goes through a sorting process. It, first of all, goes through a manual separation and then it’s placed in a trommel for further separation. Once the different kinds of materials have been placed in different places, they are then sent off to different facilities for further sorting.
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