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<br />TCMRF Single-Sort Constituent Test <br /> <br />The following categories represent materials produced/sorted from the container process <br />system: <br /> <br />. Steel items sorted by magnets - 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 /> <br />No additional sorters were added to improve sorting operations for this test. Eleven <br />persons were provided for sorting. <br /> <br />Data Collection: Both sorting systems have integral storage bunkers or silos for holding <br />the sorted materials prior to baling. The single-sort process system employs bunkers that <br />are fed directly to an infeed conveyor for the baler. The container process system uses <br />the same concept for storage of steel cans, plastic bottles and aluminum cans prior to <br />baling. Because of the initial amount of material provided for this test, personnel were <br />able to bale production grades as is normal practice. Very little handling ofloose <br />materials was required. Bales of materials were weighed individually with a floor scale <br />in the facility. <br /> <br />Glass products (including fines) are stored in bunkers on the exterior of the facility. <br />Glass is normally loaded in bulk fashion into open-top trailers for shipment to users. For <br />this test, glass production for each bunker was caught in containers on forklifts. These <br />containers 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 /> <br />Figure 5 - Collecting Glass for Weighiug <br /> <br />7 <br />