On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:41:01 +0100, Nightjar
wrote:

Mixed recycling results in a significantly larger
volume of materials being recycled. Many councils argue that the
resulting higher income more than covers the additional cost of sorting it.

Wasn't there a problem with the paper becoming contaminated with
broken glass, meaning the pulpers paid less for paper collected this
way.

I'm fascinated by technology to do this, magnetic separation for steel
cans, eddy current separators for non ferrous and air classifiers for
the paper but how are plastics sorted?

How much is actually manually done on a stinking pick line as recently
shown on one of the undercover boss tv programmes?

AJH