> Until the day we stop requiring humans to pre-sort garbage, we cannot actually get serious about recycling. I wonder if if would be more economical to have r

> Until the day we stop requiring humans to pre-sort garbage, we cannot actually get serious about recycling. I wonder if if would be more economical to have robots to pre-sort locally, before it enters the stream? Because if I had a big bucket o' refuse that a local robot would then check the /5\ codes or whatever and sort locally, it would have up to 6 days to do that and thus wouldn't have any hard realtime requirements Failure scenarios are always present, as is keeping the poor thing clean, but it could still end up being more economical IF the streams really are a source of value, and not -- as I am increasingly starting to believe -- just a sham by the plastics industry to make one think recycling exists