Recycling worker
Code 9612.1
Recycling workers clean materials and remove waste, and ensure the waste and collected materials are sorted in the appropriate recycling containers. They also dismantle vehicles and sort the parts collected, and deposit recyclable materials onto conveyor belts where they can be further sorted.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- waste and scrap products
- waste management
- health, safety and hygiene legislation
Skills and competences
- dismantle broken appliances
- use personal protection equipment
- assess waste type
- ensure compliance with waste legislative regulations
- manage waste
- operate recycling processing equipment
- handle chemical cleaning agents
- collect broken appliances
- troubleshoot
Transversal competences
- eliminar residuos
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences