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Man, What a ***** job.

I wonder how energy efficient these plants would be.

I can't wait till husky, arm-flailing, blue ghosts sort the trash and make the world a better place for us all.

A link to the actual article would have been better...

I bet it smells delightful in there!

That's pretty cool. A how do they do it for meat processing would be pretty snazzy, imagine the pictures for that, happy cows!

I work for a division of a recycling company, and we have machines that sort shredded cars and whatnot. We don't have robots, just humans to put them in there. You can push a whole car in the shredder and it uses magnets and blowers to pull out the metal from the rest. The metal is sold, and then the shredded seats and tires, etc. are sold for filling in other things.

i would imagine this is what the refuse processing plant OF THE FUTURE would look like. i can't imagine this is something occuring now. (hard to tell since we have a graphic and not an article...)

The bright colors kept me entertained.

No disassemble Johnny 5.

Wouldn't the line where the diagram shows... "negatively pressurized (air only flows out)" be wrong??? Wouldn't that be the exact opposite? If the air pressure is lower and a door opens it would suck air in ....

i wonder if that process could apply to a flux capacitor

Next episode of Dirty Jobs?

Well that is certainally alot better than burying it in the ground

Mike from Dirty Jobs already did it...and it wasnt pretty :(

So what about glass?

Is that future line or current one???

My new handle is Husky Blue Ghost Wrangler lol.

and now i've got that tune they play on the simpsons whenever they cut into a montage of how something is made stuck in my head.

Burried, they don't come in on a truck, it's a series of tubes.

Step 2 pretty much makes this impractical. There is more trash than resources to sift through it by hand.

Link to the actual article:
http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/st_wa ...

So where do the diapers and bloody tampons go?

There is an error on the first step. Negative plant pressure would cause air to flow into the plant from the outside, which would keep odor from escaping.

FTA: "Trucks enter the plant, which is negatively pressurized (air only flows out)"

Surely that should be "air only flows IN"?

Wait, if garbage and recyclables are separated automatically, why are we recycling?

If this becomes efficient enough you could mine a landfill.