The product purge bin is a round (usually metal, sometimes plastic) container that is situated next to most desks. It is usually emptied once a day by a cleaner.
I use it to place all of the purged items from my day, along with banana peels, etc.
Are you sure that isn't "surge" bin? In a continuous industrial process, often material is metered into the process by means of a "surge bin", which is used to gather the input material which may come in at an irregular rate, and meters it at a controlled rate into the process. The "surge" bin is also used to accomodate product after a stage of processing, storing and/or metering it into the next stage. For example, in a continuous asphalt plant (dryer-drum plant), the mix flows continuously through the process and into a surge bin, where it is stored for loading into trucks as they arrive. This is better than starting and stopping the process each time a truck needs to be loaded. Starts and stops are not good for continuous processes.
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To purge is to empty of something. If it is misspelled from 'surge', then the previous answer is good. If the product needs to be emptied of an undesired gas or liquid, maybe the term is OK. As an example, before welding on a tank that had contained flammable materials, you have to purge its atmosphere so it is free of oxygen. Another example--if you are replacing the fluid in a vehicle's brake system, you have to bleed or purge the lines of air bubbles and old fluid. In this case the words 'purge bin' may be referring to the container into which the old fluid is deposited. This would be a variant or local dialect or usage of the word 'bin'.
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