TheTruthWillOut
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See, to me there is nothing there that says that the recycling centre it went on to was that at Barton Mills/Mildenhall, especially as that one is very clearly a household recycling facility.
http://www.greensuffolk.org/recycling/HWRC/mildenhall-hwrc/
These were commercial pickups so "The recycling centre" suggests to me that it went on to a commercial facilitity elsewhere.
This surely shouldn't be a difficult point to put to bed once and for all, especially given the amount of confusion it has caused over the past 2 months.
BBM.
Not that bin lorry though. The bin lorry emptied its load at the recycling centre for sorting (paper, cardboard, alu cans, glass etc) and the rest ends up in a compactor that according to Tony goes to landfill elsewhere. It could go to a incinerator instead?
The waste is emptied out of the vehicle and then a supervised sortation process occurs. We are told that it is possible that a phone might pass through this process and be destroyed or disposed of in landfill, but we are told that a body would have been found at this point. It was decided that the amount of effort involved to search the landfill was not worth the potential return of what by then would be a physically contaminated and probably smashed phone. This is why the landfill was never searched. It is too late to search it now as there are tens of tonnes of refuse on top of the area where the phone may (or may not) be.
I know the process myself because in the late nineties I worked at a recycling facility. I too would like it to be clarified once and for all if the sorting process and bin lorry final destination was Mildenhall HWRC. Not sure that can be done now, though.