Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Sort materials, such as metals, glass, wood, paper or plastics, into appropriate containers for recycling.
- Operate forklifts, pallet jacks, power lifts, or front-end loaders to load bales, bundles, or other heavy items onto trucks for shipping to smelters or other recycled materials processing facilities.
- Sort metals to separate high-grade metals, such as copper, brass, and aluminum, for recycling.
- Clean recycling yard by sweeping, raking, picking up broken glass and loose paper debris, or moving barrels and bins.
- Clean, inspect, or lubricate recyclable collection equipment or perform routine maintenance or minor repairs on recycling equipment, such as star gears, finger sorters, destoners, belts, and grinders.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Cut discarded products, such as appliances and automobiles, into small pieces using saws, blow torches, or other hand or power tools.
- Extract chemicals from discarded appliances, such as air conditioners or refrigerators, using specialized machinery, such as refrigerant recovery equipment.
- Collect recyclable materials from curbside for delivery to designated facilities.
- Deposit recoverable materials into chutes or place materials on conveyor belts.
- Dismantle wrecked vehicles by removing parts and labeling and sorting parts into containers.
- Operate automated refuse or manual recycling collection vehicles.
- Operate balers to compress recyclable materials into bundles or bales.
- Operate processing equipment, such as fiber-sorters and grinders, to sort, crush, or grind recyclable materials.
- Operate shredders to reclaim steel from discarded appliances.
- Record logs of recycled materials or waste chemicals removed from products.
- Clean materials, such as metals, according to recycling requirements.
- Collect and sort recyclable construction materials, such as concrete, drywall, plastics, or wood, into containers.
- Remove copper from circuit boards.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
