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<br /> <br />Lovelace MRF and Transfer Station Department of Public Works/Solid Waste Division <br />Transfer Processing Report 21 County of San Joaquin <br />September 16, 2024 <br />3.2 STORAGE AND REMOVAL OF SALVAGED MATERIAL <br /> <br />3.2.1 Materials Separation and Sorting <br />The LTS is designed to accept and process commercial, industrial, and household self-haul <br />refuse material, including garbage, trash, and recyclable materials such as yard waste, wood <br />waste, construction/demolition waste, agricultural waste, commingled recyclables, electronic <br />waste such as televisions, computers and copy machines, white goods such as refrigerators, <br />freezers and air conditioning units, tires, agricultural pesticide containers, and household <br />hazardous waste. In the future, other materials may be added to the recyclable stream based on <br />emerging State of California requirements. <br /> <br />Commingled recyclable material is deposited on the MRF tipping floor either from the commercial <br />side or the self-haul side. Upon reaching the tipping floor, materials which are hand sorted will <br />be pushed by a loader to recycling bins located beneath a “Z” wall at the south end of the facility. <br />The remaining refuse is pushed into transfer trucks through a loading chute, an opening in the <br />north side of the tipping floor. Refuse entering the waste stream from the self-haul side is <br />unloaded by the customer from the vehicles under the scrutiny of refuse workers assigned to the <br />area. Electronic waste, tires and household hazardous wastes are set aside prior to reaching the <br />tipping floor and relocated to the appropriate staging area for dismantling and processing. <br /> <br />3.2.1.1 White Goods <br />White Goods including refrigerators and other appliances are unloaded by customers in the “Self <br />-Haul Disposal Area” and moved by County Staff to the active White Goods/Appliances Staging <br />Processing Area (Figure 4). Refrigerant is removed from refrigerators and freezers by a private <br />contractor before units are processed as White Goods. <br /> <br />3.2.1.2 Refrigerant <br />LTS uses a Refrigerant Extraction Contractor to comply with State Law requiring that certain <br />items in the refrigerant waste stream receive special handling and processing prior to recycling. <br />Wastes to be removed include Freon and other refrigerants, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), <br />mercury switches and temperature sensing devices, and gasoline. Items such as refrigerators, <br />freezers, A/C units, drinking water dispensers, and commercial food display units can contain