The truck which empties all the recycling bins transports the materials to the Southern Materials Recovery Facility (SMRF) at Seaford Heights.
The SMRF uses automated machinery to separate and sort all of the yellow bin materials into different categories or 'streams' of mixed paper and cardboard, steel, aluminium, glass, and five grades of rigid plastics.
After the materials have all been sorted, they are crushed into bales and transported to various manufacturers where they are reprocessed into new products such as glass jars, plastic containers, cardboard packaging and steel products.
It is important that you follow the recycling guidelines to help reduce contamination of the recycling products and ensure the safety of those working on the sorting lines.