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The programme, filmed at refuse recycling plants in Tyne and Wear and in Holland, examines the recycling of materials and various processes available for this.
The programme, filmed at refuse recycling plants in Tyne and Wear and in Holland, examines the recycling of materials and various processes available for this.
| Module code and title: | T352, Materials processing |
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| Item code: | T352; 14 |
| First transmission date: | 11-09-1979 |
| Published: | 1979 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | Colin Robinson |
| Contributors: | G. F. Hancock; Jan Linssen |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Detinning; Domestic refuse; Electrolysis; Incineration; Papermaking; Pyrolysis; Recyling; Scrap metal; Waste disposal |
| Footage description: | Film shots of carbon anodes being recycled at an aluminium plant. Shots of oversize clay pellets being recycled at a brickworks and steel castings being remelted. Commentary by Hancock discusses, briefly, this type of recycling. He then points out that large amounts of scrap and rubbish are also available for recycling. Shots of a scrap yard and a municipal rubbish tip. Film of a rubbish tip, and of a large machine which makes compost from the putresable fraction of refuse. Commentary by Hancock points out the amount of refuse generated in the UK and the traditional method of disposing of it. Over film of the exterior of a pilot recycling plant in Haarlem, near Amsterdam, Hancock and Jan Linssen discuss the Dutch attitude to refuse disposal. Film shots, at the pilot plant in Haarlem, of refuse being broken up into its constituents various methods. Shredding, magnetic separation, separation by density in a zig-zag air classifier and separation of paper from plastic by wetting are all shown. Commentary by Hancock describe these processes. Film shots of a paper mill at Oude Pabela in northern Holland where waste paper is recycled into high grade wrapping paper. Commentary by Hancock explains the process. Film of aluminium separation by eddy current magnets and froth flotation. Shots of paper and plastic wastes being recycled to give low grade fuel oil and solid fuel pellets. Commentary by Hancock discusses these American techniques. Mike Hewitt, Dept. of Waste Disposal, Tyne and Wear Council, explains what is being done in the U.K. in waste recycling. Film of a ferrous metal recovery machine in the background as he talks. Gerry Hancock and Mike Hewitt discuss the project, at Tyne and Wear, to separate tin and unburned steel from tin cans. Film of tin cans being squeezed into bales, of the de-tinning plant, and of the separate steel being baled. Mike Hewitt goes on to describe Tyne and Wear's plan for recycling waste in the future. Hancock, Jan Linssen and Mike Hewitt each briefly discuss the economics of waste recycling. Shots of refuse yards with waste being moved around. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72887 |
| Production number: | 00525_5338 |
| Videofinder number: | 1441 |
| Available to public: | no |
