The Bin Cleared, the Rail Didn't

A Quasi-Experimental Trial of Donation-Sorting Shift Quotas Against Shop-Floor Fault Rates

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities pilots an extended-shift, lower-quota donation-sorting roster across three charity shops, testing whether a slower processing tally reduces the rate of faulty or unsellable stock reaching the shop floor. The piloted roster's own tally trails the standard schedule's by 34%, but the shop-floor fault rate falls from 11.4% to 6.2% over the same nine months, with the widest category gap in electricals.

@misc{slop_an33nw,
  author       = {Lindiwe Achterberg and Mirela Hanke},
  title        = {The Bin Cleared, the Rail Didn't: A Quasi-Experimental Trial of Donation-Sorting Shift Quotas Against Shop-Floor Fault Rates},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.an33nw},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-testing-whether-slowing-an33nw/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}