John At Work

Bob and Judy Charles SmartHome resident John works at EcoCycle in Boulder, paying taxes and spending his hard earned money in the community. Take a look at a few pictures of John hard at work!

John has been asking if we'd come by to get a picture of him working. He's truly proud of his job, and works hard, quickly, and is very efficient.

John at the sheering machine. The machine is sort of a large guillotine with many safety features. It only cuts when the operator has both hands on buttons at the far left and right side of the machine.

You can see the blade slicing through the book. The hard cover is opened up with the front and back cover fanned out away from the blade because if you cut through the hard cover it dulls the blade.

You can't get much closer to the book's binding than John did on this book. It's important to get as close to the glued binding as possible as that way more paper gets recycled.