The case of the missing spectacles

Nov 08

STAFF at Greenview Environmental's Lackford composting site have reunited a Mildenhall resident with her glasses, after the spectacles made a remarkable three-week journey from her kitchen to the compost conveyor belt.
Irene Brown accidentally threw her specs into her brown composting box along with her kitchen peelings, which were then duly collected, delivered to Lackford, scooped up by a loader and tipped into a feed hopper, then taken by conveyor through a huge revolving screener barrel before being found on the picking line.
Peter Clarke, Greenview's site manager at Lackford said, “In the last 12 months we handled 27,000 tons of organic waste material, from tree prunings to vegetable peelings. One of our eagle-eyed sorters, Inga Lygutiene, spotted the glasses case travelling along the picking line, and saved them from destruction before they went through the grinder. Our team here all do a fine job and it is a testament to our exacting standards that an item as small as this was spotted amongst the 75-odd tons of waste that we processed that day".
Pete concludes. "There was a telephone number inside the case and I rang the lady up; she was quite taken aback that we had found her glasses.”
Mildenhall resident Mrs Irene Brown, 89, who lives only six miles away from the site, said: “It was most extraordinary to hear that they had been found. I took two bags of organic rubbish down that day, and have no idea why but I must have put my glasses in with them. They are for reading and writing so I did not immediately realise they had gone.”
Caption: Irene Brown thanks sorter Inga Lygutiene, who discovered her reading glasses before they were put through the grinder at Greenview’s Lackford site.

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