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Operate recycling equipment

This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.

Part of Operate industrial processing or production equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Controlling Machines and Processes. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 3 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Operate balers to compress recyclable materials into bundles or bales.Stays human Recycling and Reclamation Workers
• Operate processing equipment, such as fiber-sorters and grinders, to sort, crush, or grind recyclable materials.Stays human Recycling and Reclamation Workers
• Operate automated refuse or manual recycling collection vehicles.Stays human Recycling and Reclamation Workers