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  This was attached to my email reminder about the black box collection. I often wondered what happend to the recylcing and where it went.
  
  "What happens next to black box contents ..... After collection it is taken to Richborough, when containers are full they are transported to a sorting facility where it's tipped on a conveyor to a large meshed rotating drum the glass crumb falls through and is collected. A magnet lifts off tins followed by an eddy current to remove the aluminium. This leaves plastic bottles and any contaminants. A team of people remove plastic bags, glass too large for the mesh and unwanted plastics. Plastic bottles are left on the conveyor. The plastic is shredded into a water tank, the plastic bottles with lids only partly shred and sink, the shredded bottles without caps float. The shredded plastic is skimmed off for recycling whilst the material that sank is landfilled."
  
  
  Terry

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