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Hello, my name is Erin McCluskey. [br]I am an outreach worker for BDA Scotland.

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I’m very excited to be making this [br]video with my amazing guest today.

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Could you introduce yourself please?

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Hi. My name is James Colhoun.

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In this video we’re going to cover an [br]interesting topic. Under the BSL (Scotland)

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Act 2015, local councils across Scotland [br]have certain obligations.

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One of the services councils provide [br]is rubbish and recycling collections.

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In this video we want to focus on why[br]it’s important to separate out your recycling.

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Before I get carried away, [br]I should ask James to explain his role.

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Sure. I work at a recycling centre [br]dealing with the glass.

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The glass is all processed and recycled [br]and reused to make the special white paint

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used to paint lines on motorways. [br]The glass makes the paint glow at night

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when it is lit up by headlights. [br]It is also used to create a similar effect

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in the reflective strips on Hi-Vis jackets. [br]These things are both made from recycled glass.

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They are really made from glass? [br]That’s amazing! Can I ask James,

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why is it so important to separate out [br]your recycling, your glass, your paper,

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your plastic and so on? Why do we have [br]to put all these things into separate bins?

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It is really important, yes. I really want [br]to emphasise that. It’s important to

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separate it all out. In Glasgow, [br]the green bins are for general waste

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so anything that’s not suitable for [br]recycling should go in those.

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The purple bin is for your bottles and jars, [br]the brown bin is for food waste,

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the grey bin is for plastics, and the [br]blue bin is for cardboard and paper.

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You can put shredded paper in there too.[br]It’s really important to keep all this

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waste separate, and I will explain why. [br]So, as I said before, I work on the glass.

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When the lorries come into the recycling [br]centre, all the glass that they have collected

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up is put into a big hopper. It is my job [br]to load it into the hopper,

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which is like a giant funnel.

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So the glass goes into the top of that?

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Yes, that’s right, into the top and then [br]down into the hopper. Obviously, I can’t

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see inside it. If a piece of wood for [br]example or some food waste or plastic

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gets mixed up with that, it makes a real [br]mess and destroys the whole process.

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It can break the machinery and then that [br]will need to be fixed. This means that the

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lorries returning to the recycling centre [br]back up because they can’t unload.

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It’s the same thing with the plastic. [br]If it gets mixed up with other types of waste,

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it causes all sorts of problems. [br]Please, please don’t do that!

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There is no way for us to sort through it [br]so if it does get mixed up, we just have to

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throw the whole lot away. It gets [br]compressed and dumped into landfill!

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So that means it can’t be recycled?

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Unfortunately not, no. It has to be dumped [br]because it’s contaminated.

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Lots of people don’t follow the system and [br]just dump their waste into any bin,

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so it all gets mixed up. It’s no good [br]though if it’s not done right.

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I see your point. Recycling needs to go into [br]the correct bin and that’s really important,

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judging by what you say.

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It is, yes. If everything was separated [br]out correctly, the process would run really

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smoothly, and everything would get [br]recycled. Recycling helps the planet,

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it saves trees. We all need to look [br]after the environment.

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If people just sorted their rubbish[br]properly, the recycling process would

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run smoothly. If people ignore the [br]instructions, we’re just going to end up

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repeating the same thing.