We all have bins in our houses which we keep filling up with rubbish. Different sorts of rubbish get thrown away in different rooms of the house.

When our inside bins get full, we empty them into our big bins outside. Most people have got wheelie bins. These are much bigger than the dustbins we used to have, but some people still manage to fill them up very quickly.

Once a week, the rubbish lorry comes to collect our rubbish. The machine picks up the bins and empties them into the back of the lorry. The rubbish is crushed so that it takes up less space.

The rubbish gets taken to a transfer station, where it gets put into huge containers. These containers then get loaded onto lorries or a train.

The rubbish is then taken to a landfill site. A landfill site is a huge hole in the ground which is being filled up with rubbish.