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This programmes deals with resources and recycling, particularly the recycling of aluminium and the use of water in the dyeing industry.
This programmes deals with resources and recycling, particularly the recycling of aluminium and the use of water in the dyeing industry.
| Module code and title: | T102, Living with technology: a foundation course |
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| Item code: | T102; 08; 1991 |
| First transmission date: | 18-05-1991 |
| Published: | 1991 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:07 |
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| Producer: | Philip Ashby |
| Contributors: | Mark Endean; John Naughton |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Aluminium; Manufacturing process; Natural resources; Pollution; Pollution, water; Recycling |
| Footage description: | Footage - View of town. Presenter talking. Bridge. River flowing underneath. Man throwing away fridge (0'28"-2'31") - View of town. Exterior of domestic rubbish dump. Cars leaving. Piles of scrap metal goods and rubbish. Sign. Scrap fridges (2'32"-4'29") - Man loading fridges onto JCB bucket. JCB carrying fridges to skip. Fridges being crushed in skip (4'30"-5'48") - Car park. Alcan recycling centre. Man bringing bags of aluminium cans which are crushed and sorted (5'49"-7'57") - Bales of crushed cans. Warehouse. Aluminium recycling plant. Furnace. Molten aluminium. Aluminium melt being poured into ingots. Solidified ingots being stacked. Exterior of recycling centre. Exterior of aluminium smelting plant (7'58"-11'38") - Presenter talking on a bridge. Views of flowing river (11'39"-12'29") - Standfast Dyers and Printers factory. Fabric being printed. Interior views of factory. Buckets of print pigments (11'39"-13'52"). Chief executive talking. Interior of factory. Cleaning process. Dyeing process. Drying process. Cloth being printed and fireproofed (13'53"-17'13") - Man rinsing equipment. Chief executive talking. Control room of effluent treatment plant. Data on computer screen. Chief executive talking. Man cleaning machinery (17'14"-21'59") - River. Domestic waste dump. People dumping rubbish (22'00"-24'07"). |
| Master spool number: | HOU6921 |
| Production number: | FOUT378N |
| Videofinder number: | 3805 |
| Available to public: | no |
