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Majority of the stuff you place in the recycling bin cannot be recycled, or will not be recycled - despite good intentions and attitude. Humans are fallible, a
by Alupis 4y ago
Majority of the stuff you place in the recycling bin cannot be recycled, or will not be recycled - despite good intentions and attitude.
Humans are fallible, and make mistakes. Humans also have more important things to worry about than what can or cannot be recycled (the reality shocks most people).
It must be automated if it is important enough to do at all. It has nothing to do with cooperation, altruism, collective action or whatever.
- antisthenes 4y agoMost recycling facilities already sort everything with better success than 99% of humans can. And also like you said, most things are not commercially viable to recycle, so a lot of things people put in blue bins ends up in landfills anyway. Humans should only be used for a very rough split of garbage - e.g. separate yard waste from other trash, and that's it.