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Bus passes baskets and bins that'snowhere near the half of it ladies andgentlemen we give you a day in the lifeof Newport City Council good morningNewport it's 630 a.m. and hearing thestories making the news today a runawayostrich has been sighted in the pilgrimflea area of the city okay so it spinsbut it's not what do you thinkI'm Andrew okay my elbow what you do myfeet are you mad obviously all othergreen waste i will invent the vitamin orgreen waste over between i educate thepublic improve recycling would jazzbottles plastics cabos most most mostthings now and it goes up there andfamily likewhat's good for yours only it's good for12 is actually the plug and also fordomestic refuse soju so long so much alandfill sites then hopefully onwardsand upwards if you want to know whathappens to this green garden waste youbetter stand back this is the citylandfill site where the green gardenwaste is recycled into prime compost tobe used on the city's parks gardensschools allotment societies and variouscharities thirty-eight thousandhouseholds are using the orange bincomposting scheme with 5,500 using homecomposters unfortunately not everythingis rosy in the landfill and as a city weare still fairly wasteful in an averageyear the landfill has to swallow around40 9995 tons of refuse what a load ofrosebut help is at hand working alongsidethe charity waste savers the council isnow recycling thirty-seven percent ofall collected household rubbish the timeis now fast approaching 9am has thetraffic report the m4 newport is walesyoungest city with a population of137,000 of whom 7500 are employeddirectly by the council making it one ofthe city's largest employers and as youwill see this vital workforce plays manycrucial roles in the distribution ofservices and care to Newports diversecommunity the council will spend over209 million pounds with a hundred andtwo million targeted towards educationand 58 million on social services