The robots aren't recycling, they're sorting. Cardboard, glass and metal aren't an issue.The problem of recycling the plastic and the disposal of other waste remains.
@@wildmanofborneo It's what's done before recycling, which is the actual process of turning used materials into new products. There are plenty of Materials Recovery Facilities for sorting, but they can't all find recycling plants for their materials. They make bales and bags of stuff that might sit in warehouses for years or get sent to southeast Asia..
@@zyxw2000 Are you saying companies present very little demand for clean, well sorted paper, metals, and glasses? A plastic manufacturer would rarely be interested in well-sorted plastic that is purely 1 type of plastic?
The robots aren't recycling; they're sorting. We don't know how much is sent to recycling facilities. I do know that there's not yet a deposit in the UK on cans and bottles. The streets are littered with them.
I don't quite see the advanteg here. In Germany we have optical sorting stations in almost every plastic waste facility with wind jets sorting plastic waste in extremly high speeds you cannot even see with your eyes. Also camera / Infrared based. The Robot might be couple of percent more precise, but you can't even achieve a fraction of the speed and my guess is, that the robot is even more expensive than a standard industrial solution. Just check out this sorting plant in Germany, from minute 4:20 you see the jet air sorting th-cam.com/video/EvuNJ_yZi3g/w-d-xo.html
Imagine a day when a product manufacturer can buy 80 to 90 percent of the materials they need to mass produce their products from a local recycling plant, its a win-win for both manufacturer and consumer
Here's the issue. A human can sort 40-50 pieces a minute from a much faster moving conveyor. Our optical sorters are 70 - 80% efficient and humans are quality control. I find it hard to believe a robot would keep up.
Garbage is the biggest problem at the moment of our civilization.
The robots aren't recycling, they're sorting. Cardboard, glass and metal aren't an issue.The problem of recycling the plastic and the disposal of other waste remains.
Have a look at AMP robotics.
@@Bearbytez Is that a YT channel?
I thought sorting was an important part of making recycling practical
@@wildmanofborneo It's what's done before recycling, which is the actual process of turning used materials into new products. There are plenty of Materials Recovery Facilities for sorting, but they can't all find recycling plants for their materials. They make bales and bags of stuff that might sit in warehouses for years or get sent to southeast Asia..
@@zyxw2000 Are you saying companies present very little demand for clean, well sorted paper, metals, and glasses? A plastic manufacturer would rarely be interested in well-sorted plastic that is purely 1 type of plastic?
The robots aren't recycling; they're sorting. We don't know how much is sent to recycling facilities. I do know that there's not yet a deposit in the UK on cans and bottles. The streets are littered with them.
I don't quite see the advanteg here.
In Germany we have optical sorting stations in almost every plastic waste facility with wind jets sorting plastic waste in extremly high speeds you cannot even see with your eyes. Also camera / Infrared based.
The Robot might be couple of percent more precise, but you can't even achieve a fraction of the speed and my guess is, that the robot is even more expensive than a standard industrial solution.
Just check out this sorting plant in Germany, from minute 4:20 you see the jet air sorting
th-cam.com/video/EvuNJ_yZi3g/w-d-xo.html
Wind can’t sort specific plastics.
Imagine a day when a product manufacturer can buy 80 to 90 percent of the materials they need to mass produce their products from a local recycling plant, its a win-win for both manufacturer and consumer
But it's not happening.
@zyxw2000 Not "yet" but it will. Sustainability reqiures it. 🙂
@@novoscorp7275 Not as long as it's cheaper to produce new plastic than to recycle old, but maybe during YOUR lifetime.
Here's the issue. A human can sort 40-50 pieces a minute from a much faster moving conveyor. Our optical sorters are 70 - 80% efficient and humans are quality control. I find it hard to believe a robot would keep up.
But a robot can work for 24 hours a day.😆
It will only get better.
Go sort some garbage then, Josh
@@prebenjaeger I Supervise a recycling facility Bud
Don't supervise. SORT
We don't NEED plastics in the first place.
In Canada, we are not allowed to heat our homes with conventional fuels, so instead I burn my trash for heat.
Free Palestine !
just sayin....
from a totalitarian theocracy ?
Is that your reaction to every video?