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A short film charting the journey of a plastic milk bottle from your kitchen on to the recycling process and beyond.
This short film shows the whole process and journey your pink sacks take when they are recycled by showing what plastic bottles can be recycled into.
Filming took place in the Basildon District, Marks and Spencer in Basildon Town Centre and Thetford, Norfolk. The film was produced by local production house 3ative (www.3ative.com).
This film is used to teach school children across the Basildon District about the benefits of recycling and to help schools achieve eco-schools status. It is also screened in five one-minute segments on community TV screens throughout the Basildon District.
The following is the transcript for the YouTube Video, Recycling - Your Pink Sack Journey.
Beginning.
Title credits appear on screen with caption: "The Pink Sack Journey" with the Recycle for Basildon logo, Basildon Council logo and text "A video by 3ATIVE. There is dialogue and background music throughout video.
Image of two schoolboys having breakfast. One of the boys picks up an empty plastic milk carton and leaves the table. Display caption "Part One: At Home.
Schoolboy walks into the kitchen and hands the empty carton to his mum who washes the carton in the sink. Display caption, "Please rinse out your food containers".
Mum puts down some cardboard next to the kitchen bin and a plastic bottle in the pink sack bin. Display caption, "70% of household waste can be recycled!".
Recycling operatives stand outside a home with pink sack waiting for recycling vehicle as it appears on screen.
Mum ties the ends of a filled pink sack. Display caption, "Tie up your pink sacks to secure contents...".
Mum puts pink sack in the hallway where schoolboy picks it up and walks to the front door.
Recycling operative outside move to put pink sacks in the back of the recycling vehicle.
Schoolboy walks outside with pink sack and places it on the pavement next to other Recycling bins. Display caption, "...on the day of collection".
Recycling operative pick up some pink sacks on the pavement. Display caption, "Crews load your recycling onto a freighter".
Recycling operative place the pink sack in the back of the Recycling vehicle. Display caption, "...and your pink sacks begin their journey."
Recycling vehicle drives off.
Recycling vehicle is driving on the road. Display caption, "Part Two: Barleylands".
Recycling vehicle passes a road sign for Barleylands Recycling Centre. Display caption, "Pink sacks are taken to Barleylands in Billericay".
Recycling vehicle drives into centre. Display caption, "Your pink sacks are then added...".
Recycling vehicle empties pinks sacks into an area with other stored pink sacks. Display caption, "...to all the others collected that day.".
Pan shot of pink sacks at the centre. An excavator picks up the pink sacks and loads it into a larger vehicle. Display caption, "A larger vehicle is loaded with the pink sacks".
Once loaded the larger vehicle drive on to a weighing device. Display caption, "The large vehicle is then weighed before...".
Once weighted the vehicle leaves the centre. Display caption, "it starts the journey to Thetford in Norfolk.".
Vehicle drives onto the main road. Display caption, "Transporting your recycling to Thetford means...".
Vehicle is shown driving on the motorway. Display caption, "your pink sacks can take more materials...".
Animation shows the journey the vehicle takes from Basildon to the Material Sorting Facility in Thetford, Norfolk. Display caption, "making materials from new!".
Vehicle reverses into an area of the sorting facility in Thetford where other pink sacks are stored. Display caption, "Part Three: Materials Sorting Facility".
Vehicle offloads its pink sacks cargo. Display caption, "The large vehicle unloads...".
Excavator picks up pink sacks and empties load into a large container with a conveyer belt. Display caption, "Pink sack are then unloaded in to bag splitter...".
Recycling operative empties a pink sack on the conveyer belt. An extractor is shown on screen which sucks up the discarded pinks sack once the operative has emptied it. Onscreen graphics display an arrow pointing at the extractor with the text "Emptied sacks go here". Display caption "Pink sacks are ripped open to be sorted.".
Operative separates materials on the conveyer belt by hand. Display caption, "Card, paper and plastics are sorted by hand".
Onscreen animation indicates where the plastics and cards go.
Pan out image of a large pile of plastic materials.
Large magnet attracting metal cans on conveyer belt is shown. Display caption, "Cans are removed with big magnets".
Conveyer belt with plastics and paper shown. Display caption, "Other plastics get sorted here".
Conveyer belt with falling paper material is shown. Display caption, "Paper ends here, ready to be shipped out".
Excavator drops a load of plastic materials onto another conveyer belt. Display caption, "Sorted material is loaded onto a conveyer belt".
Plastics are shown being compressed. Display caption, "compressed and bailed...".
An excavator picks up a bale of paper materials to transport it to another area. Display caption, "To maximise weight on vehicles, thus reducing carbon footprint & number of vehicles used.".
Excavator stacks the bale of material. Zoom in shot of bale. Display caption, "Bails are then stacked...".
Pan out shot of bales in storage area. Recycling officer points to a large bale. "Display caption, "With thousands of others ready for transportation...".
Animation shows map of England and Wales with graphics signifying what area each material end up at. Arrows show areas the materials are sold to. Display caption "to the reprocessors to make into new materials which are sold all over the U.K.".
Mum walks through the aisle of a clothing store. Display caption, "Part Four: Recycled Materials in Products".
Mum walks over to a display of jackets. Display caption, "Some textiles are made from recycled materials".
Mum picks up a fleece type jacket and walks off. Display caption, "Your recycling can be made into many things from plastic bottles to fleece jumpers...".
Mum goes to cashier to pay for the jacket. Cashier puts jacket into a bag which had been made from recycled bottles. Display caption, "to carrier bags.".
Pan out of mum leaving the store. Display caption, "Make your rubbish something amazing: Use your pink sacks. Recycle for Basildon".
Image of the earth spinning.
Image of materials for recycling. Display caption, "Starve your bin, recycle for Basildon. Text the word [pink] + your [postcode] to 82727 to receive a reminder message for your recycling collections. www.basildon.gov.uk/recycling.
End of YouTube Video of The Pink Sack Journey.