The cages where the recycling trucks unload Bagged plastic milk bottles from household's kerbside collections Weighing ourselves on scales used to weigh collected material! Sorting machine that separates cans from plastic bottles Separate conveyors for cans and plastic bottles Watching plastic bottles filling the cage Close up of plastic bottles coming off the conveyor Mixture of PET (drinks bottles) and HDPE (milk bottles) The can cage under the second conveyor - each can worth 2p! Crushed, baled cans - each bale weighs 500kg! Close-up of baled cans A drop-off centre cardboard bank arrives... and is emptied in just a few seconds! Another vehicle scoops the cardboard to the "baler" conveyor An awesome machine cutting a spoiled roll of paper! Shredded paper from CPC's confidential collection service Paper packed into bales - pink ones are lottery tickets! A continuous stream of bales from the baling machine Only newspapers and junk mail aren't baled This crane with a special bucket scoops up the papers... And loads them into the open-topped artic trailer!