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You can buy hardware which does a lot of the sorting†, and you can pay minimum wage for people to pick harder-to-identify elements out of what's left. There rea
by tialaramex 3y ago
You can buy hardware which does a lot of the sorting†, and you can pay minimum wage for people to pick harder-to-identify elements out of what's left. There really are plenty of sites doing that.
† The very easiest is steel which you just sort with magnets, but aluminium is more valuable and it's not that hard for machines to sort it, paper/ board can often be machine sorted too.
- NalNezumi 3y agoThere's definitely sorting going on (including hardware, such as magnet, utilizing gravity/shaking, chemical) but still plastic often ends up in landfill because it's not profitable. Even China who used to do "hire minimum wage workers" to do recycling but at global scale ended it because all the adverse health/environmental effect making it worse than not profitable [1] [1] https://youtu.be/KXRtNwUju5g?si=VlmZAcdhZM0_IyiE https://youtu.be/KXRtNwUju5g?si=VlmZAcdhZM0_IyiE
- nomilk 3y agoThanks for sharing. Just watched the whole thing. Incredibly revealing (/confirming).