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Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work
submitted 1 year ago by [deleted] from theatlantic.com
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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (5 children)
They all include different chemical additives and colorants that cannot be recycled together, making it impossible to sort the trillions of pieces of plastics into separate types for processing.
Hold my beer. That actually seems pretty easily solvable with AI and robotics. It isn't impossible to sort everything into identical groups, it's just super fucking tedious, and who does tedious better than our robot slaves.
[–]iamonlyoneman 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
Funny you should mention because that's exactly what is happening right now today and the claim is bollocks that it can't be done. That the author doesn't know it is being done, doesn't mean it can't be!
[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
Cool, glad to see my idea has been developed so quickly. I just thought it up yesterday.
[–]AcceleratedWallops 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 1 year ago (2 children)
AI and robotics? Sounds like that costs money. Our bottom line can't handle that. Oh well! Sucks to suck for the earth I guess
[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
Ok socks.
[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
Lol
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