Giant tweezers - photo

[jdurand]

Here we went from pre-sorted recycling to "dump it all in one bid". I can't imagine how they sort the broken glass and wet paper and other stuff that will inevitably wind up in the stream. My guess is they only grab the bigger visible stuff and everything else goes to landfill.

Here's a bean sorting machine that uses the air jets

[nova_robotics]

Here's a bean sorting machine that uses the air jets

Ooohhh. That's a nice unit. Looks light years beyond the stainless steel vibrating trough that was sorting salt crystals years ago.

[Tooler2]

Here we went from pre-sorted recycling to "dump it all in one bid". I can't imagine how they sort the broken glass and wet paper and other stuff that will inevitably wind up in the stream. My guess is they only grab the bigger visible stuff and everything else goes to landfill.

Here's a bean sorting machine that uses the air jets

impressive machine but I was dying to see the reject bin poured through for another go at selecting the desired colour!