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Work Becoming Scarce Because of Waste Management Automation
It’s well known that the advent of modernization has deprived many manual laborers of well-paid positions they previously held, but one little-known industry possibly hit as hard, or harder than most is Waste Management; more specifically garbage collection.
What previously was a plethora of essential manual, well-paid jobs to remove trash from residential and commercial sites, then transfer that rubbish to pre-established locations has been reduced to situations where, in most instances, one man and one truck are all that’s required to accomplish the same tasks.
If one remembers the past when more than one man was employed to remove one’s garbage, wording in the Ergonomics Demonstration Project report quickly will quash that memory with its consistent one-man one-truck credo.
Types of refuse trucks noted in that report include :
- * Large commercial (construction sites, etc.)
- * Residential
- * Combination commercial/residential recycling collection trucks
Of the three trucks in the residential class, only one, the manual rear loader, suggests the possibility of hiring a second man, while both the automated and semi-automated trucks can be commandeered by one person.
Only one type of truck is listed as a commercial garbage truck. Commercial trucks deal exclusively with dumpsters which, with one man maneuvering the controls, are lifted and have their contents dropped into garbage trucks.
Although there are two types of residential recycling collection trucks–a manual truck with roll-up doors where the employee sorts the recyclables, and a semiautomatic truck where customers sort materials into three categories that later are hydraulically lifted into garbage trucks–the report from the Ergonomics Project recommends only hiring one man for each truck.
Large commercial trucks and automated dual commercial/residential refuse trucks each can be operated by one man. Only one driver and one truck are employed to gather recyclable materials using automatic dual commercial/residential trucks, and the same ratio of drivers to trucks is true for large commercial garbage trucks that use roll off compactors .
There is a surprisingly large interest in seeing what these trucks look like, and purchasing die-cast models of various Waste Management Truck is a simple process. Most of these miniature trucks are 1:34 of the truck’s actual size, about 13” long, and include moveable parts.