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[l n n Use by San Joaquin County for periodic household hazardous waste collection, separation, and temporary storage for off-site disposal. Following is a more detailed description of each of these components. SORTING AREA Sorting will occur indoors in the transfer station. Upon arrival at the facility, the general public will be directed to the public tipping area, and the commercial vehicles will be directed to the commercial tipping area. Refuse will then be dumped directly onto the tipping floor within the transfer station for processing. Extracted recyclables will be processed for shipment to market, with residues directed to landfills for disposal. Selected solid waste material for sorting may be pushed by a front-end loader onto a pit conveyor, which will transport it onto a picking line, where it will be manually sorted. Large pieces of corrugated cardboard will be removed and dropped into a storage bin. Wood will also be removed and hauled to the wood storage area. Mixed recyclable containers will be removed and transported to the container sorting area, where sorting occurs for the separation of glass, aluminum, plastic, paper, and tin. Collected containers will be dumped into a pit and then fed onto a sorting line. Ferrous materials will be removed by magnet, and aluminum, plastic, and three colors of glass will be hand separated. Separated recyclables will then be baled or stored in bins until shipped off the site to their various markets. TRANSFER OPERATIONS In addition to accommodating the sorting operations, the transfer building will also house transfer operations. Unprocessable waste and the residue from recycling operations will be loaded into large trailers with front-end loaders and hauled to one of the remote landfills. Trailers will be weighed during loadout to ensure maximum allowable loads for transfer to the landfill. PROCESSING OF RECYCLABLES In addition to the materials separated from the mixed waste stream, recyclable materials will be delivered by the public, picked up at recycling centers, and picked up at curbside or other locations within the service area. Individuals arriving at the site will be able to drop off material at a buy-back center located adjacent and contiguous to the transfer station, where an attendant will weigh the material and pay the customer for the material received. Paper, plastic, and cardboard will be baled and stored for off-site shipment to markets. Aluminum cans, tin cans, and scrap metals will either be crushed and stored in bunkers or 20 -yard containers or baled and stored for shipment. Glass will be separated by color and also stored in bunkers or 20 -yard containers. YARD WASTE PROCESSING AND COMPOSTING An area will be provided for the processing and composting of yard waste: Yard waste will be sorted to remove large woody material and then directad to the com Winn orn-A Gompost GOMPIOW, Compost will ;hem be- sold- wz a soil ame - At or to nthtu ;w;;61;;1ZI9 mor-kauz The comoostina facilitv will process various areen wastes and wood wastes. Various products. includina mulches, landscaping materials, co -generation fuel, composts, soil amendments, and other related products, will be produced. IER -93-1 - 13 - (9-27-93) G