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acrossthepond10 on July 29, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfill...

I'm hoping that applying recent advances in Machine Learning and Robotics we could build better, automated sorting facilities. Or is that being too naive?

xwolfi on July 29, 2019 [–]

It is, sorting could be done for cheap by humans like immigrants, elderly and disabled, it was done by chinese in the past.

It’s a chemistry advance you need to pray for.

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