Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 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.

[–]AcceleratedWallops 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (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

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Ok socks.

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lol