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T'CMRFSingle-Sort Constituent Tesi <br />The following categories represent materials produced/sorted from the containe�r process <br />system: <br />• Steel items sorted by magx�.ets — mostly cans <br />• Scrap steel (hand picked) <br />• Aluminum cans <br />� Plastic containers (NHDPE, PHDPE, PET) <br />• Color sorted glass (amber, clear, green} <br />• Mixed broken glass and fines for beneficial use <br />• Residue <br />No additional sorters were added to improve sorting opezations for this tesi. Eleven <br />persons were provided foz sorting. <br />Data Collection: Both sorting systems have integral storage bunkers or silos for holding <br />the sorted matenals prior to baling. The single-sort process system e.mploys bunkers that <br />are fed airectly to an infeed conveyor for the baler. The container process system uses <br />the sarne conce}�t for storage of steel cans, plastic bottles and aluzninum cans prior to <br />baling. Because of the initial amount of material provided for this test, personnel were <br />abie to bale production grades as is normal practice. Very little handling of loose <br />ma#erials was required. Bales of materials were weighed �individually with a floor scale <br />in the facilify. <br />Glass products (including fines) are stored in buzikers on the exterior of the facility. <br />Glass is narmally loaded in bulk fashion into open-iop trailers for shipment to users. For <br />this tes#, glass production for each bunker was caught in contai;aers on forkiifts. These <br />cantainers were then weighed on the truck scale exterior to the facility. Figure 5 shows <br />an example of this collection method as employed in the brown glass bunker. <br />;� <br />r`: <br />;�� <br />'; .. <br />.'r <br />�; � <br />Y _.' <br />E:�i <br />, � ,. <br />� . <br />k'igure 5- Collecting Glass �'or Weiglung <br />7 <br />