Cameras in Bins: Link Fu
Jun. 1st, 2018 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitouthttp://www.waste360.com/fleets-technology/how-some-california-municipalities-are-using-technology-tackle-waste-reduction
https://compology.com/blog/contamination-identification-tech-report
Basically: cameras in dumpsters in conjunction with a software package and/or a software service. The idea is to ensure compliance in terms of what goes into the dumpster. In one case, it looks like it is compliance on organic waste. In the other case, it is compliance on contamination rules enforced by China on plastics. It is possible this is just ONE case, and I misunderstood — but I don’t think so.
China has occasionally in the past stopped accepting plastics for recycling, and based part of that refusal on contamination. However, it looks like this time around, they really mean it. And good for them. We’ve done more than enough damage to their environment, by sending our food contaminated single use plastics to them, where mom-and-pop operations did vile things to their environment cleaning them out so they could be pelletized and used as post-consumer plastic input for new products. Bleach in a peach orchard, type of thing. Depressing.
Still, sort of weird to think our solution to some of this problem involves cameras in dumpsters. Where are people in cop shows going to dump bodies now? Or, really, anything!
ETA:
More about the China ban:
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/20/news/china-trash-recycling-environment/index.html
The reason for the slow / delayed coverage and storage of recyclables before tipping or burning them is that previous bans by China had been reversed. This one, not so much. Also, this has _never_ happened before during a boom. Other bans occurred during busts.
China setting up inspection pre-shipment:
http://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/bir-china-preshipment-inspection-exports/
This seems like a really good idea. That way, China can get the materials it needs, without having to process through our garbage under the illusion that it is somehow “recyclable”. Good for them — I suspect they led with the ban, rather than the inspection process, because they figured no one would take the ban seriously until it had been solidly enforced (har de har har) for over a year.
Pre-shipment inspection facilities don’t just benefit China, either. They could potentially make much more viable domestic processing of recyclables. I foresee some enforcement in our future.
Phoenix, their woes, where they will be going from here, plastic bags in recycling:
http://www.ahwatukee.com/news/article_8a51cb6a-6396-11e8-bb85-97d793d22b65.html
https://compology.com/blog/contamination-identification-tech-report
Basically: cameras in dumpsters in conjunction with a software package and/or a software service. The idea is to ensure compliance in terms of what goes into the dumpster. In one case, it looks like it is compliance on organic waste. In the other case, it is compliance on contamination rules enforced by China on plastics. It is possible this is just ONE case, and I misunderstood — but I don’t think so.
China has occasionally in the past stopped accepting plastics for recycling, and based part of that refusal on contamination. However, it looks like this time around, they really mean it. And good for them. We’ve done more than enough damage to their environment, by sending our food contaminated single use plastics to them, where mom-and-pop operations did vile things to their environment cleaning them out so they could be pelletized and used as post-consumer plastic input for new products. Bleach in a peach orchard, type of thing. Depressing.
Still, sort of weird to think our solution to some of this problem involves cameras in dumpsters. Where are people in cop shows going to dump bodies now? Or, really, anything!
ETA:
More about the China ban:
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/20/news/china-trash-recycling-environment/index.html
The reason for the slow / delayed coverage and storage of recyclables before tipping or burning them is that previous bans by China had been reversed. This one, not so much. Also, this has _never_ happened before during a boom. Other bans occurred during busts.
China setting up inspection pre-shipment:
http://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/bir-china-preshipment-inspection-exports/
This seems like a really good idea. That way, China can get the materials it needs, without having to process through our garbage under the illusion that it is somehow “recyclable”. Good for them — I suspect they led with the ban, rather than the inspection process, because they figured no one would take the ban seriously until it had been solidly enforced (har de har har) for over a year.
Pre-shipment inspection facilities don’t just benefit China, either. They could potentially make much more viable domestic processing of recyclables. I foresee some enforcement in our future.
Phoenix, their woes, where they will be going from here, plastic bags in recycling:
http://www.ahwatukee.com/news/article_8a51cb6a-6396-11e8-bb85-97d793d22b65.html