Recycling Group Notes:

What We're Doing Now:

On Openbuild Days:

• Check bin surface for misplaced/ missorted materials
• Remove full gaylords, replace with empties
• Check teardown shelf for miscellany to be torn down/ sort for recycle
• (if not a lot of volunteers) go through build area for loose cards/ other recyclables

Weekly:

• Check stock of gaylords, pallets, shrink wrap for palletizing

Quarterly:

• Go through full gaylords and re-sort into empties. Remove CPUs and other leftover parts, batteries, aluminum from PCBs; ensure proper plastic sorting; remove anything misplaced.

On Recycling Days:

• Get gaylords onto elevator onto truck
• Put out new gaylords and pallets
• Procure a truck
• Drive the truck to our chosen recyclers
• Contact recyclers to warn them of our coming
• Pallet jack it up there!

What We Need To Do (New Tasks):

One Time Tasks:

• Make a special place for aluminum
• Have a formal printer triage/ recycling/ sales process

On Open Build Days:

• remove PCBs from HDDs
• Sort and triage printers
• Strip wire (need stripping tools)

Each Month:

• Palletize monitors

What we're not sure of:

• Processing Junk:
  • How do we process paper and cardboard?
  • How do we process CDs and floppies, and VHS(!)?
• Can we sell aluminum?
• IDE Cables:
  • How do we sort them?
  • How do we process them?
    • do we strip?
    • break off connectors?
• PCBs:
  • Can we sell them?
  • Which local recyclers buy PCBs?
  • Are these recyclers environmentally friendly?
  • Do they need us to sort stuff in specific ways different than we sort now?
  • Are HDD PCBs more valuable than other PCBs?
  • Should we separate HDD PCBs?
  • Are CPUs and memory more valuable than other PCBs?
    • Should we separate them?
• How do we need to process/ sort plastic differently for our chosen plastic recycler?

Bigger questions:

• Processing Junk:
  • How do we process paper and cardboard?
  • How do we process CDs and floppies, and VHS(!)?
• Can we sell aluminum?
• IDE Cables:
  • How do we sort them?
  • How do we process them?
    • do we strip?
    • break off connectors?
• PCBs:
  • Can we sell them?
  • Which local recyclers buy PCBs?
  • Are these recyclers environmentally friendly?
  • Do they need us to sort stuff in specific ways different than we sort now?
  • Are HDD PCBs more valuable than other PCBs?
  • Should we separate HDD PCBs?
  • Are CPUs and memory more valuable than other PCBs?
    • Should we separate them?
• How do we need to process/ sort plastic differently for our chosen plastic recycler?

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