A police officer dies five days after being hit by a train while trying to help a distressed man on the tracks. good morning from the first carpet recycling factory in northampton. i explain why old carpets like those can be turned into plastic pellets here and made into other products instead of going into landfill. cruising through. a british clean sweep on day two at the us open with the six players in action all reaching the second round, including andy murray. good morning, it may be august but christmas decorations are out. i am at a garden centre in north yorkshire where we will find out why some businesses are tackling a slump in sales after a soggy summer.
Has left tens of thousands of passengers stranded. a police officer dies five days after being hit by a train while trying to help a distressed man on the tracks. good morning from the first carpet recycling factory in northampton. i explain why old carpets like those can be turned into plastic pellets here and made into other products instead of going into landfill. cruising through. a british clean sweep on day two at the us open with the six players in action all reaching the second round, including andy murray. good morning, it may be august but christmas decorations are out. i am at a garden centre in north yorkshire where we will find out why some businesses are tackling a slump in sales after a soggy summer.
Or if you work in the trade you ll know that getting rid of old carpets can be a bit of a task and not very environmentally friendly. are mainly made of plastic. most unwanted carpet currently ends up in landfill even though it could be upcycled into other products. ben can tell us more. good morning from the uk s first carpet recycling factory here in northampton. this is one of several truckloads that will arrive today alone. this is a whole mix of unsorted different material types of carpet, that is how they arrive all bundled up. they then get cut up and sorted into sizes that can be put through the machines according to material, that it is another pallet that has been cut up and ready. the first stage of the process turns it into this, have a look at that. that is the best bit of processing but