Where Full Boxes Go

What to do with the Boxes When They are Full

Audio/Visual

• Take to Audio/Visual Incoming (see map).

Advanced Testing

• Take to Advanced Testing Incoming (see map).

Anti-Static Bags

• Check with the Store to see if they need any. The rest get tossed in the dumpster outside of the warehouse (unless you can think of a cool art project for them).

Batteries

• Test Alkaline and Lithium Batteries. Use the voltmeter above the tools in receiving. Take good batteries to the Store in a bag and sorted bad batteries to Recycling Check-In (see map). (Here are some details we might want to add, but I'm not sure if they are completely accurate so another NPA should check them: dead alkaline batteries go in a box in near Recycling Check-In. Alkaline batteries do not have to be put in plastic bags. Other types of batteries are put individually in plastic bags and then taken to recycling.) --Elizabethwt 03:21, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Cards/Mobos

• Put them under the Card and Motherboard sorting table in Hardware Identification.

Cassettes and Other Data Cartridges

• Take them to the Advanced Recycling Incoming shelves (see map). Separate cassettes (videotape and audiotapes can stay together), Zip disks, metal-backed data cartridges, and strange/evil disks per staff's instuctions.

CDs

• Make sure there are only CDs in the box and no cases. Place them near the Recycling Work Table (see map).

Cell Phone Accessories

• Give this box to a staff member to give to E-beth to put into T.A.R.D.I.S.

Copper Bearing Material

• CHECK FOR HARD DRIVES. Take out any batteries (check inside devices), CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-RW, or tape drives. Make sure there are no cords in the boxes. Bring the box to the Recycling Warehouse and set down in front of the CBM gaylord. Do not dump the box into the gaylord; recycling staff will sort through the box before it is dumped into the gaylord.

Deconstruction

• Take to the warehouse and find staff at Recycling Check-In. Laptop docks go to the Advanced Recycling incoming shelf, and most other things get placed on the black pallet (see “UPS” on the map).

Dirty Plastic

• Sort out filmy plastic (gets recycled as plastic bags), E-Plastic, and anything else that isn't dirty plastic. Take the box to the Recycling warehouse and set it near the Dirty Plastic gaylord (see map). Do not dump the box into the gaylord; recycling staff will sort through the bin before it is put in the gaylord.

E-Plastic

• Make sure there is no metal on any of the plastic. Take to the warehouse and set near the E-Plastic gaylord. Do not dump in the gaylord; recycling staff will sort through the box before it is dumped in the gaylord.

Fans/Heat Sinks

• Take to the Advanced Testing Incoming shelves (see map).

Filmy Plastic

• Separate out any Anti-Static Bags (the silver ones). Plastic bags with handles can go to the store. The rest of the plastic can be bagged up with a bag from the Supplies Closet and taken to the warehouse near the Styrofoam (see map).

Floppy Disks

• Remove any Zip Drives (they go in the box for Cassettes and Other Data Cartridges). Bring to the warehouse near the Recycling Work Table.

Games

• Ask a staff member to take the games to the CGL.

Head Phones

• Untangle and bind up cords with rubber band. Then take them to the Monkey House for Liane.

Holding Tank

• Ask staff member to take it to Laptops.

Jewel Cases

• Make sure paper has been removed. Then put them next to the Recycling Work Table in the warehouse (see map).

Magnetic Metals

• Empty box into the steel cart in the warehouse between the gaylords.

Network Devices

• Put the box by the Network Testing table in Advanced Testing (see map).

Non-Magnetic Metals

• Take them to the warehouse and find a staff member at Recycling Check-In (see map).

Online Sales

• Place box on shelves or pile on the opposite side of the hallway from Mac Incoming.

PDA/Digital Camera Accessories

• Bring the box to the Store hallway and place on the shelves labeled “Wireless Gizmos to be tested”

Power Supplies

• Bring them to System Evaluation, to the left of the systems stack.

Printer Ink/Toner

• Take to Printer Land.

Ribbon Cable

• Remove any cables with steel plaques screwed onto the IDC connector (these go to the Deconstruction Box). Take Ribbon Cables to the Ribbon Cable Gaylord in the warehouse by CBM and Thin Colored Wire.

Store

• Bring box to the Store through the door by AV Testing. Set it on the shelf beneath the “All Incoming” sign.

Styrofoam

• Break up the Styrofoam inside of a big black trash bag from the Supplies Closet. Then take it to the warehouse and toss it up on the Styrofoam shelf (see map).

Thin Colored Wire

• Take to the warehouse and empty box into the Thin Colored Wire Gaylord.

Unsorted Memory

• Bring memory to Advanced Testing Incoming. Walk past the shelves to place memory in the small bin near the left-hand corner of the room (or ask).

Wall Warts

• Bring to Advanced Testing Incoming.

Wireless Mice/Keyboards

• Bring to Advanced Testing Incoming.

Boxes That Get Sorted (But Not Emptied)

DVI Cables

• Rubber-band the nice ones and recycle the rest. Give ones with odd ends to the store.

Ethernet Cables

• Ethernet cables don't get emptied to any particular place because various people pull from our bin (hardware grants, for instance). Sort out any cross-over cables, CAT-5e & CAT-6 cables over 10” for the store box. You can recycle the shorter cords.

Three-Prong Power Cords

• Check through the box to see if there are any "Figure 8" or "Mickey Mouse" power cords: see if the store is in need of them, or recycle them. Feel free to recycle the three-prong power cords that aren't wrapped nicely or are from Macs (they are greenish-blue and colorful). Check to see if the Adoption class needs power cords, and give them a mix of black and white ones. The rest of the power cords can stay in the bin until the store or grants needs them.

USB Cables

• Sort types of cables. USB A to B and USB to mini cords are common, and the store only wants ones that are labeled USB 2.0 or Ultra Speed. Give all firewire cables to the store. USB 1.0 cables be recycled or stay in the box until the store or other people need them (like hardware grants).

VGA Cables

• Rubber-band the nice ones and recycle the rest. Give VGA extension cables to the store.