recycling worker

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.

The most in-demand skills for this role include health, safety and hygiene legislation, waste management, waste and scrap products, assess waste type, operate recycling processing equipment, ensure compliance with waste legislative regulations. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives recycling worker a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.