Mechanical separation hall at New Earth's Canford site http://www.newearthsolutions.co.uk/our-facilities-and-projects/ Household waste from Bournemouth and East Dorset that would previously gone to landfill is sorted here from incoming refuse lorries. Metals, glass and hard plastics are extracted and sent for re-use elsewhere; the leftover softer materials are then composted at [[2430743]].
Uploaded to Geograph by Mike Faherty on 28 May 2011
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