Osobiste urządzenie do recyklingu
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A UK start-up has designed a robot-like device that allows you to recycle straight from your kitchen. Research has shown that 91% of plastic isn???t recycled and more than half of what we put in recycling bins ends up in a landfill. In their pure form, recyclables are very valuable but are costly to separate when mixed: PET is different from HDPE, glass bottles are recycled depending on their colour, once mixed in together, they can???t be separated meaning that these items cannot be closed-loop recycled and are destined to become road base. In order to tackle this problem, Lasso is currently developing a prototype for a domestic recycling appliance which ensures you can never put these valuable materials together and therefore guaranteeing that everything that is placed in the appliance can be 100% closed-loop recycled. Lasso is a nifty little robot that looks just like any other kitchen appliance. When a user drops an item into the machine, whether it be glass or a tin can, Lasso analyses it and works out if it???s recyclable. After being washed and processed, those processed materials are stored in the base of the appliance. At this point they meet industry specifications for remanufacture, and are ready to be remade into new products of the same quality - bottle to bottle, jar to jar etc. - facilitating closed-loop recycling or the circular economy. The company sees its system for pre-sorting as a way to ensure high-quality materials re-enter the recycling chain and it will work to pick up material in the machine whenever the device gets full. Because all the sorting is done properly at home, recycling centre's shouldn???t have to spend money on workers to separate various materials. The Lasso should clean all of the materials as well, ensuring it???s ready to recycle. The lasso was built by Aldous Hicks, a mechanical engineer and programmer, who saw recycling as a ??smaterials corruption problem.??? ??sHe believes that when you mix up different items a
2021-01-25
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