Amanda in Pharmacology

 November Total Hours: 5      It was another amazing month of record-breaking collection days at Glass Half Full! I had my first shift at the big warehouse on Louisa St. At this location, we sort glass by colors! We separate the dark, clear, light green, and blue glass in different soap drums. After sorting 200+ glass bottles, I STILL cannot tell which glass is "light" green versus dark green, though. Easy candidates are Heineken, Perrier, & Pellegrino bottles. I also learned how to use the sand-making machines! There were a couple I learned how to operate & got better at using.      The one I'm putting the wine bottle into jams easily, but super simple to fix. You load a glass bottle upside down through the flaps, wait a few seconds, listen for a swift grind, and repeat with the next bottle in the drum! It takes ~ 60 bottles to fill the collecting bucket underneath with the first grind of sand. Once the bucket is full, we pick it up and dump it into this crazy ma