The Secret World Of Your Rubbish
The Secret World Of Your Rubbish is a TV show on Channel 5. The long-running program has been available since 2019. A total of 16 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2024.
Last broadcast:24/03/2024 at 04:05
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Last episode
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The Secret World Of Your Rubbish
The methods used to clean up space junk orbiting Earth.
Series 1
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Refood diverts the rotting food we don't want from landfill, and plugs it into the national grid. If all the food wasted by UK homes was turned into energy, it could power more than 1.2 million homes. Terracycle sorts through the unrecyclable at drop-off points around Sussex.
1:00:00
Crapper and Sons salvage what they can from among 40,000 tonnes of plastic per year. S Norton uses a multi-million pound complex of hydraulic and electrical systems to shred 1.5 million tonnes of steel per year.
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Meet London's first female binman who clears rubbish four times a week from a rich borough, the Kennys who hand-built their waste business from scratch, and Mark, who salvages defunct planes. Meanwhile, a box full of human ashes turns up at Crappers near Swindon.