Recycling Centre by Cameron

On the 30^th of August, the parents, Room 4, Room 5 were going to the Recycle Centre.

Once we got there, we were introduced to Briony the tour lady. She briefed us about the dangers.

We started walking to a big green shed, but before we could we had to cross a busy lane that all the rubbish trucks use.

After that Briony said, “That’s the Recycling shed.” We walked in some huge doors; it was very noisy (190 decibels).

There were 29 conveyer belts and 1 huge magnet. 1 minute later and all the machines stopped but 1, The Crusher!!!!!  (The crusher crushes all the cans and milk bottles).

After that we all got in cars and drove to the compost area. The Timaru compost area is the most high tech compost centre in the southern hemisphere. We saw a huge mulcher and a giant covering machine. I still can’t believe someone would put a lawnmower in a green bin.  It takes 3 ½ months to make everyday food scraps into compost.

I think the recycle centre was very interesting because I had never been there before.

By Cameron.



This is one of the conveyer belts that lifted up most of the rubbish.