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Recycling Center handles it all
Thomas Doucette (left), 88th Force Support Squadron Recycling Center manager, and Dave Matheney compare notes during the loading of cardboard bales on a buyer’s truck Sept. 27, 2021, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Each bale of cardboard behind them weighs more than a ton. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Recycling Center handles it all
Timothy Fields, 88th Force Support Squadron, empties a recycling bin for cardboard Sept. 27, 2021, at Recycling Center on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. All the facility’s trucks are 20-30 years old, which presents maintenance challenges for center personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Recycling Center handles it all
Shreds of paper flutter off a conveyer belt Sept. 22, 2021, inside the Recycling Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Center personnel shred documents containing official information or personal data gathered from base commands prior to baling and selling the product. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Recycling Center handles it all
A load of shredded paper is dumped on a conveyor belt that feeds into the baler Sept. 22, 2021, inside the Recycling Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Paper and cardboard are sorted before being formed into bales that weigh approximately a ton. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Recycling Center handles it all
Dave Matheney, 88th Force Support Squadron, brings a load of mostly cardboard into the Recycling Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, on Sept. 22, 2021, for sorting and baling. Plastic in the lower right is the type of contaminant that comes from people throwing trash and other material into the wrong bin, adding labor and expense to the recycling process. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Recycling Center handles it all
Ned Applegate, 88th Force Support Squadron, sorts through a pile of cardboard Sept. 22, 2021, in the Recycling Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The center is run through a memorandum of agreement between 88 FSS and the 88th Civil Engineer Group. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Recycling Center handles it all
Bob Parsons, 88th Force Support Squadron, sorts through office paper and feeds it into a shredder Sept. 22, 2021, inside the Recycling Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Center personnel shred documents containing official information or personal data gathered from base commands prior to baling and selling the product. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Recycling Center handles it all
Ned Applegate, 88th Force Support Squadron, carries off a set of dual-exhaust pipes found in a cardboard recycling bin Sept. 22, 2021, in the Recycling Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. People putting things in wrong bins adds labor and expense to the base’s recycling program. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
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Nick Steel, Air Force Wildland Fire Branch Wildland Support Module, and District Chief Matt Dickey, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Fire Department, part of the 788th Civil Engineer Squadron, walk with drip torches Feb. 21, 2020, helping to spread a prescribed burn on Huffman Prairie. The two units combined in an effort to manage the fuel on the prairie and help the prairie grass grow. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
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Darryn Warner, 88th Civil Engineering Group Natural Resource Program manager, and District Chief Matt Dickey, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Fire Department, part of the 788th Civil Engineer Squadron, stop a prescribed burn on Huffman Prairie from spreading on to the base Feb, 21, 2020. Prairie grass is a warm-season grass species and benefits from being burned. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
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Huffman Prairie, where the Wright brothers learned to fly, burns Feb. 21, 2020. The event was a prescribed burn conducted by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to help the prairie grass thrive and discourage woody vegetation. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
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A Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, firefighter holds a drip torch after setting a line of fire in a field near the base during a prescribed burn Feb. 21, 2020. The drip torch is designed to safely dispense burning fuel to start fires in the desired spots. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
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Steven Holmes, Air Force Wildland Fire Branch Wildland Support Module lead, uses an all-terrain vehicle, Feb. 21, 2020, rigged with an automatic drip torch to spread fire across an Air Force-owned plot of land near the Northern boundary of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The wildland support module, out of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., travels the Eastern United States setting controlled fires mostly with the goal of reduce hazardous fuel levels to minimize the threat of brush and forest fires to Air Force installations and personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
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Members of the Air Force Wildland Fire Branch Wildland Support Module and the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Fire Department, part of the 788th Civil Engineer Squadron, are briefed Feb. 21, 2020, prior to the setting of a prescribed burn on a plot of land just north of the base. The wildland support module, out of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., travels the Eastern United States setting prescribed fires mostly with the goal of reduce hazardous fuel levels to minimize the threat of brush and forest fires to Air Force installations and personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
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Darryn Warner, 88th Civil Engineering Group Natural Resource Program manager, stands in front of a prescribed burn on Huffman Prairie Feb. 21, 2020. Warner coordinated and oversaw the burn which was used to help the native prairie grass grow. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
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Nick Steel, Air Force Wildland Fire Branch Wildland Support Module, walks with a drip torch Feb. 21, 2020, helping to spread a prescribed burn on Huffman Prairie. Steel’s module came to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., to help with the burn. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
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Members of the Air Force Wildland Fire Branch Wildland Support Module and the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Fire Department, part of the 788th Civil Engineer Squadron, look out over scorched earth at the end of a prescribed burn near the base Feb. 21, 2020. The patch of Air Force-owned land is in the base’s glide scope and clear zone so it is the 88th Civil Engineering Group Natural Resource Program Office’s responsibility to manage. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
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Darryn Warner, 88th Civil Engineering Group Natural Resource Program manager, fills a drip-torch Feb. 21, 2020, in a field near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Warner was coordinating and overseeing prescribed burns used to help native prairie grass grow. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
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Assistant Chief Bryan Weeks, of the Wright-Patterson AFB Fire Department, part of the 788th Civil Engineer Squadron, walks along outside of the base fence line on Huffman Prairie with a drip torch Feb. 21, 2020, starting a prescribed burn. Burning this part of the prairie set up a boundary of burnt grass to act as a buffer between the base and the main fire. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
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Darryn Warner, 88th Civil Engineering Group Natural Resource Program manager, walks through the grass on Huffman Prairie Feb. 21, 2020, prior to setting it on fire. The 50-acre plot of land, just outside of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, was burned to help the natural prairie grass grow and to discourage woody vegetation. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)