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Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by SapporoChris on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @03:12PM (#17410922)
I have to counter regarding incentives with my own annecdote. I was buying a lot of sparkling water and got tired of collecting and recycling the empties. I bought a popular carbonating unit.

I suspect culture will have a huge impact on how well the solution works.

I would love robotic waste sorting, I hope someone is working on that!

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Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by neuralRiot on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @03:31PM (#17411063)
Perhaps a color coding for different materials would make consumer and robotic sorting simpler.
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Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by mikec3010 on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:01PM (#17411323)
This or a very primitive 4 bit rfid
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