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The Recyclable specification appears on 117 of the 238 containers A field that only ever says Yes cannot separate anything And the 117 rows carrying it are exactly the 117 PET rows So its presence is a restatement of the material field The more serious problem is how its absence reads Nothing on these pages says any material is or is not recyclable Catalog wide the field behaves the same way at larger scale Which puts it in a different category from a sparse field And it is the inverse of a finding on another shelf Both fail the same test, which is whether every row answers one question References

Recyclable: Yes, 117 times. It never says No.

The Recyclable specification appears on 117 of the 238 containers

Which is just under half the shelf. And across all 238 rows it takes exactly one value, which is Yes.

A field that only ever says Yes cannot separate anything

There is no row it excludes and no row it distinguishes. As a filter it either keeps the rows that carry it or keeps everything, depending on how a blank is treated.

And the 117 rows carrying it are exactly the 117 PET rows

The two sets are identical, which was checked rather than assumed. No polypropylene row carries the field and no glass row carries it.

So its presence is a restatement of the material field

Recyclable equals Yes is PET equals PET under another name, in the same way the temperature range field is on this shelf. Two of the ten labels are reporting the same underlying fact.

The more serious problem is how its absence reads

A buyer filtering for Recyclable equals Yes gets 117 rows and loses 121. The 71 polypropylene rows and 50 glass rows look like they failed a test, and there is no test and no failure.

Nothing on these pages says any material is or is not recyclable

That depends on local collection and it is not in this record. The observation is about what the field can distinguish, not about any material.

Catalog wide the field behaves the same way at larger scale

It appears on 803 of 2,150 products and still takes one value. So the pattern is not an artifact of this shelf being a subset.

Which puts it in a different category from a sparse field

Width on 14 rows is incomplete and honest: where it is present it says something. Recyclable is complete in form and empty in content, and that is a worse state to be in.

And it is the inverse of a finding on another shelf

One shelf in this catalog records a shipping weight on nearly every row where the figure is sometimes per unit and sometimes per case. That field is populated and ambiguous. This one is populated and vacuous.

Both fail the same test, which is whether every row answers one question

A usable column answers the same question on every row and gives at least two different answers across them. Three fields on this shelf pass that test comfortably and three fail it in three different ways.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The Recyclable specification appears on 117 of this group’s 238 containers and takes exactly one value, Yes. The 117 rows carrying it are exactly the 117 PET rows; the two sets are identical. No polypropylene or glass row carries the field. Across the whole catalog the field appears on 803 of 2,150 products and still takes one value. Nothing on these pages states that any material is or is not recyclable, which depends on local collection and is not in this record; the observation is only about what the field can distinguish.

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. Ten specification labels appear across this group’s 238 containers, with the number of rows carrying each and the number of distinct values it takes: Capacity, 238 rows and 29 values; Color, 238 and 9; Material, 238 and 3; Temperature range, 238 and 3; Case pack, 237 and 82; Height, 224 and 146; Neck finish, 222 and 21; Recyclable, 117 rows and one single value; Width, 14 rows and 11 values; Liner, one row and one value. On this shelf the three temperature range values map one to one onto the three materials: 117 PET rows read minus 40 to 120 F, 71 polypropylene rows read 0 to 240 F and 50 glass rows read minus 100 to 300 F. Across the whole catalog of 2,150 products the field takes nine distinct values, so it is not a material restatement everywhere, only here.

Written from 40 CFR 279.22 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. That section governs how a used oil generator stores used oil; it does not govern fuses, clips, clamps, bulbs, retainers, caps or valve stems, and it does not reach any container on this shelf. Nothing here says any container may be used to store used oil or any other fluid, and nothing here is guidance about handling or disposing of used oil. No container on this shelf is described as being in any particular condition, because the catalog records a specification and not a state. This shelf is a subset of the store-small-dry shelf and the sewing notions property enumerates that shelf.