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Check this out, from Finland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_1sOPqM_VA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_1sOPqM_VA

• Animats 9y ago
  Nice. Most of the sorting is done by mechanical methods - shakers, screens, flotation tanks, magnets - but most plants still have a few manual pickers pulling out strange stuff. That's a robot job. Then glass and plastics are chopped into pellets, and sorted by color and material. That uses the same vision technology used to sort farm products. Vision-based sorting is so fast that it's routine to sort individual peas using machine vision. Sorting glass cullet into clear, amber, and green works just as well. Sorting plastic by type is rarer, but here's a line for that.[1] Here's a overview of a production recycling plant.[2] A random mix of stuff goes in, and stage by stage, each material flow becomes more uniform, until material ready for reuse comes out. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mppwM_gkSY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mppwM_gkSY [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkILrp11Jq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkILrp11Jq0