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Sorting your recycling is probably a scam. My understanding is that the aluminum content is already high enough to hire workers to sift through garbage. It's a
by mathgradthrow 3y ago
Sorting your recycling is probably a scam. My understanding is that the aluminum content is already high enough to hire workers to sift through garbage. It's a terrible job but robots will do it soon.
- mariusor 3y agoCould you tell me why spending a modicum of effort to sort one's trash in order to save more work for other people in the pipeline is a scam? Until we get robots to do this, I mean.
- mathgradthrow 3y agoit doesn't save work, sifting requires the same labor inputs for any fraction, a more dilute trash stream doesn't help.