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To meet State mandates requiring certain electronics be diverted and recycled, LMRF&TS contracts with a CIWMB Approved Electronics Recycler to provide recycling services for cathode ray tubes (CRTs) and other electronics waste (e-waste). LMRF&TS offers free collection of CRTs and a-waste to residential customers. CRTs include,but are not limited to, computer monitors, televisions, and laptops. Other electronics include, but are not limited to, computers, printers, VCRs, radios, stereos, cellular phones, telephones, answering machines, and small microwaves. Residential CRTs and electronics are sorted by refuse collectors at the self haul area and transferred via forklift to the CRT Collection Area. Businesses with multiple CRTs are directed past the self haul area directly to the CRT Collection Area, and the Recycler helps to unload their electronicwastes when necessary. The materials are then dismantled onsite and sorted into the respective commodity for recycling. The Recycler provides ful1M1`tme staffing at the LMRF&TS.Xhis staff works at the facility 5 to 7 days per week, and is resp Bible for the collection anq dismantling of CRTs and electronic devices. Materials are shippedt to the LMRF&TS from tl e North County Recycling Center and Sanitary Landfill, the Foothill Sanitary Landfill, and Cunty collection events to be dismantled onsite. Because volumes fluctuate, the Recycler adsts staffing appropriately to ensure all materials are processed in a timelyjnanner. CRTs and electronic devices are disii"tled as the/are received. The Recycler's staff dismantles CRT devices to the bare CRT with yoke removal. CD screens'are dismantled to the bare panel. Electronic materials are dismantled, ad all cr uit boards and capacitors are removed. All resulting recyclable commodities are shipped #o appropriate recycling facilities in cubic yard boxes and/or roll-off bins, with a shipmd tr requency of one to four times per month. (See Appendix H for a detailed description of t ` transportation, collection, recycling methods and destinations for each commodity, as well as full operations of the program.) f y64 The following table shows the volumes cif CRp and e-waste processed at LMRF&TS during calendar year 2006. ' + 2006 2006x$ 2006 ' 2006 2007 2007 Average Average, Total otal Projection Projection units per pound' number of n` mber of units per pounds day per d units o ds day per day CRTs 59 2,94 Y 21,180 1,064 016 82 3,595 E-waste 112 1,572 37,047 518,656 123 1,719 Total 171 4 519 58,227 1,582,672 �205 5,314 All equipment necessary fo the collection and recycling of these materials is provided by the contracted Recycler. This i cludes the following: , • Temporary tructure for operations—cover from the weather, • Forklift— ansfer material to collection area • Platform cale—weigh materials • Pallet Ja s—lift and transfer material Lovelace MRF and Transfer Station Department of Public Works/Solid Waste Division Transfer Processing Report _19- County of San Joaquin-Revised 1/25/07