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joshnuss commented on Ask HN: Who is at the forefront of fighting climate change?    · Posted by u/musha68k
theGeatZhopa · 3 years ago
Is already done in a kind of way.

The recycling Initiative is named holy grail 2.0 and the identifier is digimarc barcode

Atm, holy grail 2.0 is thought as follows: Scan Code, read DB, sort the materials in buckets as they'r defined in DB.

joshnuss · 3 years ago
TIL, thanks for sharing!
joshnuss commented on Ask HN: Who is at the forefront of fighting climate change?    · Posted by u/musha68k
joshnuss · 3 years ago
One technological solution could be a "Package ID":

Imagine if every can, bottle, box, bag, utensil,.. contained a clearly legible identifier, that was machine readable (QR code?), that linked back to the manufacturer.

Then all these wasteful packages could be scanned and sorted using vision systems, and sent back to the originating manufacturer for disposal.

By making the producers responsible for cleanup it will surely change their balance sheet, and they will be forced to change. Or go bankrupt. Because their current business model is not viable when the costs of their environmental impact are considered.

u/joshnuss

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