A professional who scans and feels scrap rubber tubes to identify butyl, synthetic, or natural rubber and sorts them into separate piles.

• Cuts out cots (valve patches), using knife.
• Loads sorted tubes into boxes, and weighs boxes on scale.
• Tags boxes to identify contents and record weight.
• May cut out valve stems.
• May bale depatched tubes.
• May cut samples from tubes and test with specified acid to determine if rubber is natural or synthetic.