Homeowners are not directed to stay in their cars unless needed to identify something or open the trunk . Thus, homeowners risk injury from traffic, workers with cartloads of waste, and back strains. I, the contractor, need to control the delivery of wastes to my workers. Homeowners carrying their spilling containers of gasoline and dripping pesticides over to the sorting tables compromise everyone's safety. Caution homeowners to, if possible, carry the wastes in the truck rather than on the floor or seats in the passenger section.
Many times wastes spill on the way to the event.
This can ruin upholstery and carpets. Worse, the fumes could impair the driver or create a fire hazard if someone is smoking in the car. Homeowners are not told to extinguish cigarettes in the work area . Again, if someone gets out of their car and walks to a sorting table while smoking, we're all at risk. Hold the collection in an open paved parking lot away from storm sewers.