After spending a day collecting and sorting recycling, Mirror writer Nia Dalton found there is a mistake households are consistently making that creates the 'grossest' part of the job, Bristol Post reports. Despite spending a 'wet and miserable' morning as a recycle bin loader at Bristol Waste, she was reassured by driver loader Simon Bohin that she was lucky it wasn't windy or a hot day.
Recycling bin collectors were considered key workers during the pandemic, continuing to work while most of the nation came to a standstill. Her shift began at 6am, when she head out on a typical Thursday route with Simon and Dave McKenna, a loader who said the public 'really appreciated' their efforts in the pandemic.
Nia said: "Watching the three men weaving in and out of each other like clockwork was impressive. It was fast moving and hard work keeping up with their pace, and took me a while to suss out what went where. But with a little help from them, there really was nothing I couldn't do and I questioned why there were so few women doing the job, with only a handful of females at Bristol Waste."
