1. Running Order
Documentary: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Channel: BBC2
Scheduling: Wednesday, 6pm – 6.30pm
Duration: 28 minutes
Montage (bins being emptied, items being dropped at tip,
recycling centre.) Introducing topic with narration, brief
overview of programme.
30 secs
Opening Titles 20 secs
Vox Pop with people in the street asking question: ‘do you
recycle?’
30 secs
Quick montage introducing alternative ways of recycling
(using eBay, depop, sculpture making, using charity shops,
car boot sale footage) with narration explaining that
recycling isn’t just about different bins.
20 secs
Establishing shots of a charity shop, narration gives
statistics on charity shops in the UK.
20 secs
Charity shop interview with staff of the shop focusing on
the different items that they receive, how they price items
and some of the interesting items that they have received
over the years. Intercut with shots of items inside the shop.
90 secs
Interview with a customer in a charity shop asking
questions about why they visit the shop and why they buy
the items that they buy.
60 secs
Shots of car boot introducing next topic of the programme 10 secs
Vox Pop asking car boot salesmen ‘why do you sell at a
car boot sale?’
20 secs
Interview with car boot organiser. Discusses why they
started it, how many visitors it gets per week, and also how
many sellers it receives.
90 secs
Archive footage of old car boot sales. Narration talks about
their growing popularity.
30 secs
Shots of recycling centre. Tilt from the sky down into one of
the large refuse containers. Narration moves the topic back
to traditional recycling methods.
30 secs
Interview with manager of recycling centre about the day to
day running of the plant and how different materials are
recycled. Intercut with various shots of the plant in action.
150 secs
Archive footage of the ‘How it Works’ Recycle Now video.
Narration reads recycling statistics. Facts superimposed on
screen.
30 secs
2. Shots of different artwork on display at the Creative
Recycling Gallery, Manchester. Narration explains that as
opposed to recycling conventionally, the artists turn used
items into art.
30 secs
Interview with gallery co-founder, Glennis Andrews, asking
why she founded the project and when it was established.
Also poses the question on whether she founded the
gallery based on a love of art or a love of recycling.
90 secs
Montage of sculptures in the gallery. 20 secs
Fast motion footage of a sculpture being built by the artists. 20 secs
Footage of Glennis Andrews explaining what a certain
piece of art means in the gallery and what the inspiration
for it was.
20 secs
Interview with gallery co-founder, Fiona Norton, asking
what her favourite piece of art is in the gallery, which major
projects she has contributed to and also whether she
thinks the gallery is personally helping the environment.
90 secs
Archive footage of polar ice caps, graphs made by UNEP
(United Nations Environment Programme) showing climate
change. Narration reads climate change statistics. Music
bed using Earth Song Instrumental (Michael Jackson).
30 secs
Interview with environmentalist about the effects of
recycling on climate change, greenhouse gases and the
ozone layer.
60 secs
Footage of an avid water recycler going through his day to
day water recycling routine. Shots of him reusing collected
water. Narrator explains that although some people may
find it strange, water recycling is a very viable form of
helping the environment.
30 secs
Interview with the water recycler asking about when they
started to recycle water, whether they feel their life is
massively different than before and whether they have
received any negative backlash from people who know
about their take on recycling.
90 secs
Montage of people buying and selling online using sites
such as eBay and Depop. Shots of various different items
auction pages and people bidding and also listing items.
Narrator explains that whilst most people may feel that
water recycling is too involved or would change their life
too much, buying and selling second hand items online is
something a lot of people do often and can even be
considered recycling.
30 secs
Vox Pop asking passers by on the street ‘have you used
eBay? What did you buy?’
30 secs
Interview with a highly rated eBay user who uses the
service almost daily. Discusses what are the most bizarre
items they’ve ever bought or sold second hand, how they
decide to price their items and whether they personally
consider it a form of recycling.
60 secs
3. Archive footage from the popular Channel 4 programme
Grand Designs showing recycled materials being used to
build eco friendly and self-sufficient houses. Narrator
explains that this phenomenon, much like eBay, has came
about during the modern era due to advances in
technology.
30 secs
Interview with the owners of an eco-friendly, recycled
materials home on the day to day life living in one, how
much it cost and what are the key materials that were used
in the construction.
120 secs
Footage of the home owner giving a tour of the home’s
interior.
60 secs
Various shots of bins being emptied, bin trucks coming
down streets. Narrator explains that simple tasks such as
just correctly using a designated bin makes a lot of
difference.
20 secs
Interview with member of the local councils recycling team
about the significance of using local recycling sites and
more niche schemes that you can get involved in.
90 secs
Montage of local recycling centres and community projects
using recyclable materials. Narrator explains to check local
council websites in order to see what you can do locally.
30 secs
Vox Pop asking ‘do you feel recycling is important to
saving the environment?’
30 secs
Facts about recycling superimposed over a variety of shots
of the content shown in the programme. Narrator reads
statistics and climate change projections.
30 secs
Closing credits superimposed over a montage of shots of
different forms of recycling and also archive footage of
nature.
40 secs
TOTAL TIME: 28 minutes
