How is a contaminated waste bin identified
Contamination Series - #1 Contamination (CC)
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I'm being driving forward where's my
number 25 years this is Christmas tree
propane and plastics bag not recyclable
only bottles cans paper and cardboard go
in the recycle bin some recycling
programs have over 25 percent
contamination
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we spend too much time sorting through
contamination not enough time sorting
through good material to help the
environment the oddest thing I have seen
was a skin tear I saw a badger dead with
his eyes open and they terrified I
thought it was going to wake up sorry I
didn't touch that one the most common
thing I would secret American lion
beetle Christmas lights water hoses they
stop the stars from spinning around and
anytime we get jammed the whole system
shut down right now as you can see
everything is shut down because we have
to clean the machine
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there's a lot of plastic bags that we
get through the system grocery bags bags
filled with leaves that's also get
caught up in screens string cleaning is
when we go inside the screen and we take
out the unwanted material old clothing
old shoes metal material when we go
inside the screens you might have a pole
sticking out the shaft we have to pry it
out or we might have pores that's
wrapped around three shelves or ropes or
chains and we have to use the tool to
get those things out the tools we have
is a hook knife so wire cutters and some
pliers
six times a day we stop the machines to
clean or contamination well it will
probably take us up to two hours to
clean the string now when recycling is
not done properly we try to clean the
screen a hundred percent so they can run
smooth as possible without causing any
jam now that I work here at waste
management I tell my friend that
recycling is really important if more
people will recycle right we can process
more recycling a day
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