00:00This year alone, I think there's been at least six incidents of baler fires involving gas
00:28cans which is a lot more than any other years since I've been here. You've just got to make sure that
00:35you're looking out for anything with the word gas in it. Anything gas doesn't go into your household
00:40stuff. It needs to be recycled separately. A lot of lighter fluids come through which can be easily
00:45mistaken for general aerosol. A lot of gas cans coming through which are a bit more identifiable
00:54but still slip through the net. We do have guys up on the picking line which do try their best to
01:00pick out as many as they can but obviously some do make it through. It's great that people are
01:06recycling more than ever in Cornwall. Rates are now up to 52 percent. That's just such good news but
01:13it's really important that we are recycling the right things in the right containers. So aerosols,
01:20whilst aerosols that don't contain gas can go into your curbside recycling, anything that contains
01:27gas or batteries, please could you put it into a specialist place and that could be a household
01:33waste and recycling centre or it could even be the shop you bought it from. The problem is that when
01:39something like this or this goes into the curbside recycling, it can actually explode at the recycling
01:48centre and that can damage machinery and most importantly most concerningly it can actually
01:53hurt people. So we don't want things like this that contain gas here going into the recycling.
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