Sack 173 of 200: Picking Twelve Bags From Eight Pallets
One bad sack in two hundred, and the sample that missed it. How to pick sacks, probe them, split samples and set acceptance limits an auditor will accept.
What the Haulier Needs on Paper Before the Gate Opens
A load turned away 400 km from home had good material and bad paperwork. The classification question, the documents in the cab, and the one-page dispatch pack.
What a Landfill Operator Checks Before Tipping a Gelled Load
Thirty seconds at the gatehouse decides whether your load tips. The four checks applied first, why over-dosing can fail a load, and how to build one that passes.
Tilt the Bin and Count: A Free-Liquid Test Anyone Can Run
Two bricks, a jug and five minutes tell you whether a gelled bin will drip in the truck. The tilt test, the press test, and the failure that started both.
Three Ways to Measure Moisture in Solidified Leachate, and When Each Lies
The gate test says 68 percent and the driver swears the batch was dry. Both can be true, because dry is a judgement made at the surface and 68 percent is a number measured somewhere else entirely. Getting moisture right in solidified leachate is mostly a question of knowing which test answers which …
