Fifteen Kilos of Water: What Gelling Does to the Weight Ticket
A bin can gain 3 kilos after dosing starts, and only 250 grams is polymer. What the weighbridge measures, and why kg per hundred covers is the number to track.
Bin Weight and the Two-Person Lift: Keeping Gelled Bins Inside Manual Handling Limits
A 120-litre bin at 78 kilos, a wet ramp with a 20-millimetre lip, and two porters in their fifties. That is the scene behind a fair share of back-of-house injury claims, and it is a scene that solidification can quietly create. Gelled waste is denser than loose wet waste, roughly 0.75 kilos per litr…
