Visy Trip
31/7/13
- There is a machine that sorts plastic bottles. A scanner (optical eye) looks at the different types of plastic bottles that are on a conveyor belt and sends a message to the computer which then sends a message back to the machine to tell the machine how much air needs to be blown so that the different types of bottles are flicked up into the correct sorting bins
- There are three sorting bins for the plastic bottles
- coke and lemonade drinking bottles
- any other bottles eg. hair shampoo bottles
- Room 18 weighed 1300 kg and Room 14 weighed 1440 kg, a difference according to Riley of 140kg
- A big magnet is used to sort aluminium and steel cans from all the recycling materials, sucks up the cans, spins around and drops the cans onto a different conveyer belt
- Glass gets separated by colour; brown, white and green in the glass recycling building
- Big bins sort out light and heavy materials by moving up and down so the light materials come up to the top and the heavy materials stay at the bottom. Paper is the lightest and steel is the heaviest
- Aluminium cans get squashed together and then put into ship containers and taken to China, Korea, Malaysia and Australia to be recycled
- Recycled plastic gets formed into a long tube and then hot air is blown into it to make a coke or lemonade bottle
- 150 trucks deliver recycled rubbish every day to MRF (another name for Visy)
- MRF works 24 hours a day/6 days a week
- MRF stands for Material Recovery Facility
- MRF can recycle paper, plastic, aluminium, cardboard and steel
- MRF sells cardboard boxes, plastic bottles for coke or lemonade and aluminium cans
- MRF cannot recycle plastic bags
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