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Norway: 50% of food, 77% of energy in waste, and 97% of toxic waste is recycled. https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate
by punnerud 8y ago
Norway: 50% of food, 77% of energy in waste, and 97% of toxic waste is recycled.
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=no&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.avfallnorge.no/bransjen/n%25C3%25B8kkeltall&xid=25657,15700021,15700186,15700191,15700253,15700256,15700259&usg=ALkJrhhGeEjP4WguBQt-gvJq0BA4nJsL6A https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
We are also rebuilding some of our plants to sort waste with machine learning. The initial tests are really promising.
Several of them are already sorting out most plastic using spectrometer-sensors, so we don’t need to do it manually. In combination with the machine learning the tests get it up to 99.9% or higher.
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=no&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.tu.no/artikler/her-skal-de-bygge-en-av-verdens-mest-avanserte-papirlinjer/453987&xid=25657,15700021,15700186,15700191,15700253,15700256,15700259&usg=ALkJrhgcw40Kc8kLEI75jOZRYcls9JL8Vw https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
- airstrike 8y agoOnce upon a time I came across AMP Robotics[0], a company that also uses ML and robotics for sorting waste. Pretty nifty project, in case you're curious. You can see the robots in action on their website[1] __________ 0. https://www.amprobotics.com/ https://www.amprobotics.com/ 1. https://www.amprobotics.com/amp-cortex https://www.amprobotics.com/amp-cortex
- koolba 8y agoSorting trash maybe useful but sorting Legos is where it’s at! https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/ https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/
- Gravityloss 8y agoAlso https://www.zenrobotics.com/ https://www.zenrobotics.com/
- thatwasunusual 8y agoRecycling doesn't help much as long as Norwegians throw away 40-50 kg of food per person each year. :(
- osrec 8y agoIs that as a result of overproduction or just wastefulness?
- avip 8y agoAt every point in the supply chain (grow, pick, sort, package, deliver...) a % of produce becomes more expensive to keep than to throw. So it being dropped.
- osrec 8y agoIs that not overproduction in a sense?
- avip 8y agoNot exactly. For example, if you have a picker machine harvesting 80% of crop, and manual work ain't cheap (it's Norway), you'd probably throw 20%. But you can't "ungrow" it in any meaningful sense. Agriculture is complex.
- justinator 8y agoOne "solution": Invite people to come down to hand-harvest the rest of it. Charge them a nominal fee (if at all).
- jhanschoo 8y agoThis sounds more wasteful to me. In terms of manpower and cost of commute.
- caiob 8y agoHow easy is it to do 50% of such (very) small population?
- EuroShill 8y agoOK but what does this have to do with the original article other than the usual "Europe does it better". That's right, absolutely nothing.
- punnerud 8y agoThat Europe push technology, not people to solve the recycle problem?