| I propose using sensors which can be strategically | | | | receptacle containers and make sure they actually |
| placed into recycled bottles, which will help us audit | | | | get to the place they are being recycled, the end |
| our recycling efforts. Too much of the present | | | | point. We need to audit ourselves. Putting different |
| recycled trash never gets recycled. Tracking Our | | | | types of trash into different colored receptacles at |
| Recycled Waste With Sensors can easily be done to | | | | the curbside is a really nice feel good thing for people. |
| make sure recycle contractors are doing their jobs. | | | | But all the feeling good about what you are doing is |
| All too often I have visited a recycling facility only to | | | | for not, if that material never gets to the place in |
| find that some types of bottles and cans were not | | | | which it will be melted down and remolded into it's |
| being recycled at all, this happened for many reasons, | | | | next life. We can use "Plastic RFID" tags. which have |
| some were due to lack of labor, build up of material | | | | been designed by the Germans. We can attach a |
| faster than it could be separated out. Someday | | | | small ion lithium battery to it and track it. |
| robotic trash separators will be able to identify quickly | | | | [ |
| each type of material based on a sonar of the trash, | | | | Even if the sensor tad is seen, that is okay because |
| knowing the thickness of Polypropylene, | | | | it means someone was looking for it and thus knew |
| Polyethylene, opaque and colored plastics. Glass, | | | | that any one of a million containers might be one of |
| paper, waxed paper products or rubber. | | | | the Audit sensors to make sure we really are |
| Now we should secretly put sensors in the recycled | | | | Walking the Talk of our recycling goals. |