The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End

Re:The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End by askver on Saturday January 12, 2019 @05:59PM (#18893809)

A new giant type of automated recycling station has been installed around Sweden during the past couple of years, called the "Pantamera Express". I like this thing. You dump your stuff, it processes all kinds of things at a quite decent rate (~100/minute) and in the end you get a value check that can be redeemed in a grocery store.

Here's a cheesy video demoing it (turn down the volume):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWtJdB3-bwg

It's pretty big:

https://pantamera.nu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/BFR_storpant...

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Re:The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End by Yetanfou on Monday January 14, 2019 @06:04AM (#18902151)

The bigness is a good thing, most of it consists of storage space for (compressed) returned packaging. One of the more frustrating issues with the common variety of bottle/can recycling machines is that I nearly always get confronted by the 'machine full - call store clerk' message while feeding it. This takes up my time, the store clerk's time and that of the person waiting behind me with a bag of bottles/cans.

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Re:The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End by askver on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:14PM (#18904993)

Exactly. That's been one of the core problems with the 80s-style in-store "chewers".

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