Oh that's a good idea. I was thinking that there should be an open source object recognizer that can sort any material (kind of like a 3D printer). But having c

Oh that's a good idea. I was thinking that there should be an open source object recognizer that can sort any material (kind of like a 3D printer). But having cameras on recycle bins would be great. Used cell phones could do it. There are probably unlimited amounts available for $5-10 each: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=lot+cell+phone https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=lot+cell+phone Also image recognition has been a solved problem since about 2010, so any roughly 1 GHz processor can do it in under a second for something like a plastics recycling symbol. I just can't believe that there is no money available for projects like these. I was thinking about it just now at the gym and I'd like to see society move away from donating time at a personal level, and towards organizational donating where the workers involved are paid the going rate on their labor. So instead of working a full-time job and being expected to put in a couple nights and weekends per month on volunteering, we'd instead donate money to foundations that could go deep on problems with real backing. It seems to me that this would also be a good fit with open source in general. These problems are so much easier than the yak shaving we do at work that we could solve most of them in a matter of a year or two.