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© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Hello everyone! My name is MRF. Do you remember me from your visit to Farington Waste Recovery Park? Today we’re going to look at the things that you saw when you went on the walkway tour. We’ll follow the process that the waste goes through from start to finish. Are you ready to remember what you found out when you came to visit? Let’s try an easy one first: © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Farington Waste Recovery Facility Fact: It took 3 years to build it all! © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Question: Can you remember how many football pitches we could fit here? 10 20 30 That’s the same as 146,000m2 © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Well done if you remembered that fact. We have 3 sections in our facility: MBT – for your waste MRF – for your recycling Green Waste – for your garden waste © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Question: Which one of these materials can be recycled? Crisp packets Sweet wrappers Newspaper Old paper can be made into new paper, which saves trees! © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Things that can be Recycled! Paper and Cardboard Glass © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Things that can be Recycled! Steel and Aluminium Plastic bottles © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Some people don’t sort out their waste to be recycled – they just throw it all in their rubbish bin! All the rubbish bins are collected by the bin lorries that come to your houses. The lorries then take the waste to . . . © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Hello I’m MBT, do you remember me? My full name is Mechanical and Biological Treatment. People and machines sort through the waste to recover useful stuff like paper and metal cans so that it can be recycled. We have lots of waste to sort through – up to 700 tonnes a day! © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Inside of MBT Can you remember how all of our different sorting machines work? Let’s start from the beginning of the process and follow the materials through to the end. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Grapples Fact: This is where the bin lorries bring all of your waste that you threw into your bin at home © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Question: How much waste can a Grapple crane pick up at a time? 1 tonne 1 gram 1 kilogram That’s the same as 1,000 kilograms © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 That’s the same weight as 24 of you and your teacher! Now that the waste has been lifted onto the conveyor belts, the machines in MBT have to sort through it all. Let’s see our next machine: © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Trommels Fact: These machines are like giant sieves; cylinders with lots of holes all the way around them. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Question: How do the Trommels separate materials?: By colour By weight By size Small things fall through the holes and big things carry on to the end of the cylinder. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Windsifter Fact: These machines use fans to blow some materials into big green tubes so that it can be separated from the rest of the waste. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Question: Which one of these materials is most likely to be blown by the Windsifters?: Potato Plastic carrier bag Teddy bear It has the lowest mass, so it easily blown by wind © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Hand sort cabin Fact: People sort the materials by hand in here. They wear protective clothing to keep themselves safe from cuts and illnesses. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Fill in the blanks: The handsorters recover plastic bottles, paper and cardboard so that they can be r______, turned into something new. ecycled Plastic bags and wrappers are also removed from the conveyor belts – they get baled up and sent to l_____ sites to be buried. andfill © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Magnets Fact: The yellow block is the magnet and it has a conveyor belt that spins around it. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Question: Which one of these materials is attracted to the Magnets?: Aluminium drink can Cardboard cereal box Steel baked bean can Steel is a magnetic metal © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Eddy current separators Fact: A spinning magnet inside these machines makes electricity. This passes easily through metals like Aluminium and Copper because they are good conductors. The electricity creates a temporary magnet inside them. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Question: What happens when you put two magnets together?: North and south ______ each other North and north or south and south _____ each other attract repel The temporary magnet inside the Aluminium cause it to be repelled away from the spinning magnets. It can then go on to be recycled. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Shredder Fact: Cuts large pieces of waste into small pieces. This waste goes to be made into compost – even babies’ nappies! © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Percolators Fact: These are the largest machines in the facility. Inside, the food waste is mixed together with warm rainwater. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Question: Which science word describes what happens when materials like salt or sugar mix with the warm water?: Dissolve Melt Disintegrate Soluble materials like sugar and salt will dissolve into a solution. Insoluble materials like potatoes won’t dissolve, but they will get made into OGM compost. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Biodigesters Fact: This is where the dissolved food comes. These two tanks each hold one million litres of the solution. Helpful bacteria break it down and turn it into methane gas, a bit like our bodies do with some of the food we eat! © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Did you know that we can turn the methane gas into electricity, which can then power most of our sorting machines! We can produce 1.8 megawatts of electricity every day – that’s enough to power 1,000 homes! © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Organic Growth Medium Compost Fact: Made from insoluble food waste and babies’ nappies. Up to 10,000 tonnes of compost can be held in here at one time. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Question: How many worms help to make our compost?: 1,000,000 1,000 None We use micro-organisms like bacteria to make our compost in just 6 weeks! Green waste compost is kept separately and is made from the contents of your garden waste bins. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Control Room Fact: The operators who work in here work 12 hour shifts. There are over 1,000 pieces of machinery that have to be looked after all of the time, so it is manned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – even Christmas day! © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 All those machines, people and energy to sort out the waste. This is because some people don’t sort at home! MRF’s full name is Materials Recovery Facility. All of your materials that you put into your recycle bins and boxes come to his section. We know that lots of you do sort out your waste at home, so let’s take a look at what happens when you do. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Inside of MRF Plastic bottles, Steel, Aluminium and Glass are sorted into different piles by machines and people. Paper and cardboard are baled separately. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Optical Polysorters Fact: Sorts out plastic bottles by shining light on them to see how see through they are. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Question: Which science word means that a material is see-through?: Transparent Translucent Opaque © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Question: Which science word means that a material is not see-through?: Transparent Translucent Opaque © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Question: Which science word means that a material lets let shine partly through?: Transparent Translucent Opaque © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Baler Fact: Once the materials have been sorted out, they are baled and sent away to different factories to be recycled. © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 When you came to visit, did you see how much quicker, easier and cleaner it is if you sort out your recycling at home? We can all help to save precious natural resources like trees and crude oil when we do the 3 Rubbish R words. Can you remember them? © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 The 3 Rubbish R-words: R_________ - use less rubbish by buying one big cereal box instead of lots of small ones. R_________ - use something again, filling up a bottle with more water. R_________ - turn something old into something new using energy, like when plastic bottles are melted to make new ones. educe euse ecycle © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Well done, you’ve made it to the end! Did you remember everything? Maybe you could design your own sorting machines and become engineers for the future! © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013

© Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013 Thank you for taking part. We hope your onward journey project goes well. Why don’t you send us pictures of what you are doing in school to help the environment? Goodbye! Write to us: The Education Team Environmental Education Centre Farington Waste Recovery Park Sustainability Way Farington Lancashire PR26 6TB Email us: education@globalrenewables.co.uk © Global Renewables Lancashire Operations Ltd August 2013