Bin Lorry and Newspaper Do You Know?

# There are lots of things all around us

# Exciting things that surround us

-# But how does it work?

-Do you know?

-# How is it made?

-Do you know?

# Things that go up, things that go down

# Things that go pop, things that go round

# With special cameras to show you inside

# It's going to be a big surprise

-# But does it work?

-Do you know?

-# How is it made?

-Do you know?

-# Do you know?

-Let's find out! #

Hello. I'm Maddie. I'm just putting the rubbish out.

Did you know that lots of things you throw away can be used again?

It's called recycling.

I've got some paper and card here, they go in this brown bin.

Do you recycle at home?

It's a good thing to do because it means, instead of all these

old things just being thrown away, they get made into new things.

But do you know how your rubbish gets from your house to be recycled?

Well, it all starts with a bin lorry and I want to know how it works.

Ha! Look, there it is, the recycling lorry.

Hoo, it's big, isn't it? And noisy.

Shall we take a closer look?

When your recycling is collected,

the bins are wheeled from your house to the lorry.

Then the bin is hooked on to a platform,

which lifts it upside down so that everything tips out into the lorry.

It's brilliant, isn't it?

I like the way the whole bin gets tipped upside down.

The lorry is just like a big robot and this bit at the back,

where it all happens, is called the hopper.

You should never play or go near a lorry,

but I've got special permission to see how they work.

I want to see what happens when the rubbish gets tipped upside down,

so let's put my special camera inside and get a closer look.

Ha-ha!

Look at all that recycling!

It smells a little bit.

And now this huge metal arm inside the hopper has come down

from the lorry and is dragging all the recycling up

and pulling it to the back.

Hoo-hoo! The recycling lorry sounds alive, it's making so many noises.

Even when it stops, it goes tschoo.

TSCHOO

It's a bit like it's sneezing.

That was so much fun. Let's see it again in slow motion.

Here comes the bin.

Tipping, tipping and there goes the recycling.

It looks amazing, but do you know how the hopper tips the bin?

Let's find out.

On bin day, your bin is wheeled to the back of the lorry and hooked

on to a robotic arm at the back called the rear loader.

When the bin is locked into position,

the rear loader arm starts moving.

The first part moves upwards, lifting the bin higher and higher.

Then it starts to move backwards and this tips the bin upside down.

The lid tips open so that all the recycling falls out.

Inside the lorry, the recycling falls into a big tank.

Next, a moving wall pushes all the recycling to the back

of the lorry, crushing it together.

This means there's room for more recycling.

This bit at the back, the hopper, is really clever, isn't it?

And, look, there go two more recycling bins.

And, remember, inside the lorry, you have a big moving wall that

is pushing the recycling together to save space.

But, once the rubbish is inside the lorry,

do you know where it goes next?

Well, follow me.

When the bin lorry has finished collecting all the recycling,

it heads off to a recycling plant.

It's a big place where all the different recycling gets sorted out.

And here they are now.

This big pile of plastic and paper here is recycling collected from

lots of people's homes and our lorry is adding to the pile right now.

Wow! Just look at all that.

I can't believe how much recycling was squeezed into this lorry.

Next, a digger truck scoops up the recycling and tips it into this.

It makes its way...hoo-hoo...

..to this large metal wheel, which crushes up the recycling to

make it flat, where it's ready to go on to the next stage.

In here, people are sorting through the recycling,

taking anything that can't be recycled out.

Everything else keeps going along the conveyer belt through here.

The recycling goes into a huge drum.

The drum spins around and the heavy things fall to the bottom,

and the lighter bits of recycling stay at the top.

When the recycling comes out of the drum,

it goes into three different conveyer belts.

Big, medium and small.

The small bits of recycling include some plastics and some paper,

and now they need to be separated.

This special machine blows the plastic and paper apart.

The paper drops down inside this machine,

which crushes it into big blocks called bales,

and these bales of paper and card will be sent to factories all

over the world to be made into new things.

What did you like most about seeing how the recycling lorry worked?

Can you remember what we call the back of the lorry,

where all the recycling goes in?

That's right, it's called the hopper.

Did you hear the sound the bin lorry made when it stopped?

It was like a sneeze.

TSCHOO

And did you see the way the bin was tipped upside down by a robotic arm?

So, now you know how a recycling truck works and how some of

your recycling gets taken here, to a recycling plant.

But do you know how it gets recycled or what it gets made into?

Let's find out.

One of the places your old recycled paper might end up is here -

in a paper mill.

Here they turn your recycled paper and cardboard into this,

newspaper, and I'm going to show you how they do it.

This is all recycling that was collected from people's homes

and offices, and turned into bales at a recycling plant.

The bales are being placed on to this moving belt,

where they go to be broken up into loose pieces,

and then are carried all the way to a special machine called a pulper.

And this is the pulper.

It spins all the old paper round and round, and mixes it with water,

so it's a bit like a washing machine.

This pulper is enormous - it's one of the biggest in the world.

All of the spinning and mixing with water breaks the paper up and

turns it into something called pulp.

It looks like muddy, sludgy water, doesn't it?

I don't want to get too close, so let's use my special camera instead.

Are you ready? Let's go for a dip.

Euurgh.

Can you believe that this muddy, sludgy pulp is going to

become newspaper?

Yuck.

Luckily, my camera is in a waterproof case.

Sorry, special camera.

The pulp goes through a giant sieve and anything we don't want in

our paper, like bits of plastic, gets taken out.

Then the pulp goes to the next part of the mill,

which is enormous and very noisy.

So noisy that you can't hear anything else, but follow me.

The pulp travels through this pipe into another big machine.

Come and have a look at this.

The pulp is going round this spinning roller to be washed -

this gets rid of all the ink.

It's very messy.

When it's dried, it comes out white.

Come and have a look.

There it is.

When the paper comes out the other end,

it's wound on to one of these huge reels.

They're called jumbo reels and all that paper weighs 100 tonnes -

that's the same as ten of the biggest elephants that ever lived.

THEY TRUMPET

I have never seen so much paper in my whole life.

This reel of paper is far too big

to be turned into a newspaper, isn't it?

So, it has to be cut down into smaller pieces

and that happens over here.

And now these smaller reels of paper are ready to go off to the

printers to be turned into newspaper.

But first they have to be packaged up by these robots.

This is a newspaper printers and here the reels of plain

recycled paper we saw made at the paper mill are loaded onto

this machine, ready to be turned into newspaper for us to read.

But before the newspaper can be printed, the words and pictures

are put onto something called a printing plate.

Once the plates have been created,

they're put on to this long roller, it's called a cylinder,

and the cylinder is a bit like a stamp.

And when it's covered in ink and rolled over the plain paper,

it leaves a mark.

Just like my stamp here, it works a bit like this.

The stamp, or plate,

gets pressed into the ink and the ink gets pressed on to the paper,

leaving the words and pictures that we need to make a newspaper,

but the printing press goes much, much quicker.

Ooh, wow, I cannot believe how quickly this machine is

printing newspapers.

Wow.

The press prints 20 newspapers every second.

Once the paper has been printed, it goes to this machine,

where it's cut to size, folded and stapled together,

making a finished newspaper.

I loved seeing how old paper was recycled and made into

newspapers to read.

What was your favourite part?

Can you remember what you call the old paper when it's been

mixed up with water?

That's right, it's called pulp.

Did you hear the sound the pulper made?

HUMMING

And did you see the way the printing press worked very quickly to

print all the words on the paper, turning it into newspapers?

It has been so exciting seeing how all our old rubbish can be

recycled and made into new things, like this newspaper.

And the best thing about a newspaper is that,

once you've finished reading it, you can pop it in the recycling bin,

ready to be recycled again.

See you next time.

# There are lots of things all around us

# Exciting things that surround us

-# But how does it work?

-Do you know?

-# How is it made?

-Do you know?

-# Do you know?

-Let's find out! #