New £1m machine to help sort Swindon's rubbish

Swindon council hopes the investment will help it raise cash from selling old plastic and metal.

A new million pound machine under construction to help boost recycling in Swindon should be operational by Christmas.

Plastics and metals arrive in the same container but Swindon's current facilities do not have the capability to properly prepare the materials, so the council relies on other companies to deal with this off site. "We have two types of magnets and the conveyor will separate it out, then we can bail it up as a really good commodity to sell and hopefully get an income from", she said.

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