Description
Supervise curbside and drop-off recycling programs for municipal governments or private firms.
- • Oversee recycling pick-up or drop-off programs to ensure compliance with community ordinances.
- • Supervise recycling technicians, community service workers, or other recycling operations employees or volunteers.
- • Assign truck drivers or recycling technicians to routes.
- • Coordinate recycling collection schedules to optimize service and efficiency.
- • Coordinate shipments of recycling materials with shipping brokers or processing companies.
- • Create or manage recycling operations budgets.
- • Design community solid and hazardous waste management programs.
- • Develop community or corporate recycling plans and goals to minimize waste and conform to resource constraints.
- • Implement grant-funded projects, monitoring and reporting progress in accordance with sponsoring agency requirements.
- • Investigate violations of solid waste or recycling ordinances.
- • Make presentations to educate the public on how to recycle or on the environmental advantages of recycling.
- • Negotiate contracts with waste management or other firms.
- • Operate fork lifts, skid loaders, or trucks to move or store recyclable materials.
- • Operate recycling processing equipment, such as sorters, balers, crushers, and granulators to sort and process materials.
- • Oversee campaigns to promote recycling or waste reduction programs in communities or private companies.
- • Prepare grant applications to fund recycling programs or program enhancements.
- • Schedule movement of recycling materials into and out of storage areas.
- • Identify or investigate new opportunities for materials to be collected and recycled.
- • Inspect physical condition of recycling or hazardous waste facility for compliance with safety, quality, and service standards.
- • Maintain logs of recycling materials received or shipped to processing companies.
- • Prepare bills of lading, statements of shipping records, or customer receipts related to recycling or hazardous material services.
- • Provide training to recycling technicians or community service workers on topics such as safety, solid waste processing, or general recycling operations.
- • Review customer requests for service to determine service needs and deploy appropriate resources to provide service.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
