This photo shows the two bays which hold the mixed light waste and the mixed heavy waste (mainly mixed hard fill).

The mixed light waste is then loaded into semi trailers and taken to landfills. The mixed heavy material is then put through the Trommell (rotating drum with holes around it).

As the Trommell spins, the soil and small rocks fall through the holes and make their way via a conveyor belt to the far RHS storage bay. The larger rocks, concrete, tiles, rubbish etc come out at the end of the Trommell and via a conveyor belt, go through the picking station where the labourers pick out whatever rubbish is still in the mix.

The clean products, of brick, tile, concrete, rock and cement, fall off the conveyor into the far LHS storage bay, and are then transported to other yards where they are crushed to make aggregate for roads or concrete manufacture.

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