What goes where

Warehouse Floor Plan
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Ribbon Cable and Heavy insulated Wire
Home for all flat IDE and SCSI type cables. On occasion they will be attached to a steel faceplate held on by nuts. The nut driver should be used to remove the faceplate so that the ribbon cable can be placed in the bin. Thick heavy cords like those found on keyboards, mice, power cords, and the like go in here, also.
 * Vendor: CALBAG

Plastic
Check all plastic for metal clips, screws, and locks before placing plastic in this bin.
 * Vendor: TCG

Colored wire
This is where the multicolored wire clipped from the power supply goes. This wire is sorted for its light insulation to copper ratio, not for its color, so remember that black, white, and gray are also colors. All "skinny" wire goes here.
 * Vendor: CALBAG

Motor Bin
Here is where CDROM drives, Floppy drives, and other drives come to rest.
 * Vendor: CALBAG

Powersupplies
Before placing anything in here, remove all cable, wire, and steel casing, a little more work but worth it financially. Only the circuitboard of the powersupply should be in this box. Power adapters, like the powersources for speakers, printers and such, get their cord cut off, and then placed in a barrel.
 * Vendor: CALBAG

Printed Circuit Board
Only trained Advanced Recyclers should be putting stuff in here, because placing things here is tricky, boards must be checked before going in. A motherboard must have the processor and battery removed before placing it in the bin. Also, some bigger pieces af aluminum(heatsinks) should get removed. A daughter board must have the steel faceplate removed. These boards are referred to as low density boards.
 * Vendor: CALBAG

We also have high density boards. They are the circuitboards off the back of hard drives, and have their own gaylord. Please reposition the lid on this box after dumping high density boards in here. We need to keep this box clean (no random" you know what ").


 * Special Note: Clean Circuitboards

Steel
Computer Case and other steel goes here. This is the white postal tub that is armored with aluminum plates. Very Mad Max. This cart has wheels, but it is designed to roll on smooth, clean, unobstructed cement. It is important to note that the recycling floor and the parking lot outside are none of these things. When this bin becomes full, it needs to be rolled outside and tossed by hand into the forty yard drop box in the parking lot. Gloves are recommended as the inside edges of case steel are usually unfinished and brutally sharp. If today is Friday or Saturday, you will need to make it clear to all volunteers to fill the back of the bin as the front will almost certainly be full at this point in the week. There are metal stairs that you can safely climb to check the level of this bin or add things to it. If the Mad Max cart is too full, and it will get this way often without supervision, it is highly recommended that you empty it by hand from where it sits until the level of steel is low enough to allow it to be rolled outside safely.
 * Vendor: Waste Connection

Warehouse Bins and Barrels
These are gaylords on the warehouse floor that are fed mostly by receiving and you, the staff member.

Keyboards
Keyboards have their own gaylord, and is usually easily identifiable by the presence of keyboards. Before they can be placed in this box, the keyboards need to have the cords cut off. Wire-cutters are always available behind the recycling bench, and the severed cords are to be placed in the Heavy Insulated Wire bin.
 * Vendor: CALBAG

C.B.M.
Copper Bearing Material is sort of an electronic catchall bin. Stereo equipment, VCRs, telephones, speakers, mice, scanners, modems, line switches, and all manner of computer adapters belong in the C.B.M. gaylord. Pretty much anything that seems like it might have copper inside of it and does not fit the criteria for the other gaylords can live in this box. Cut all wires before adding things to this bin.
 * Vendor: CALBAG

Monitors
To be recycled monitors get placed tretris-style in one the gaylords. We now leave the cords and bases intact. Please don't put monitors with their screens facing down, but instead stack them in a way that will keep them from sliding and breaking. No more than 3 levels of monitors are stacked on top of each other, we have to be able to close the lid completely.
 * Vendor:CALBAG

Aluminum
We keep 4 aluminum barrels on the warehouse floor, along the western wall, with the labels "milled", "cast",  "extrudet", and "dirty". Only a person trained in telling one kind from another should be putting aluminum in them. If you don't know, ask a certified advanced recycler to show you, or leave them in a box by the adv. recycling bench.
 * Vendor: Quantum

NOTE: The shiny metal posts that are on the heat sinks from the slot type processors are non ferrous and are considered clean.

Stainless Steel

 * Vendor: Quantum

Laptops

 * Vendor: Quantum

Hard Drive Circuitboards

 * Vendor: Hallmark

Cell Phones

 * Vendor: ReCellular

Fans

 * Vendor: Quantum

Speakers

 * Vendor: Quantum

Hard Drive bin
This is the gaylord where they go when the barrel is full. This barrel will be a hundred or more pounds heavy and will require two people and a dolly to bring it over to the bin. They should be hand loaded into the bin while sorting out the inevitable floppy and CDROM drives.
 * Vendor: Quantum

Cardboard
There is a wooden cage that lives on or near the forklift, this is where broken down corrugated cardboard boxes go. When it is full, find a forklift driver to empty it. This only works Tuesday thru Friday before 4:30p.m. if it is Saturday or after 4:30, then make a pile of broken down boxes somewhere nearby but out of the way.

Paper
Books, manuals, and the like go in the blue recycling cans that are over by the forklift. Separate out all software, plastic wrap and wire bound manuals and put only paper in these cans. One of these cans is for bottles and cans, but we generate far more paper than bottles and cans in a week, so both are frequently used for office paper. If it is Tuesday, the cans need to be brought out to the curb next to the northern entrance to the parking lot on the little patch of concrete.