Anybody who has a penchant for LEGO probably has a bucket or two of messily mixed brick somewhere in their abode—like sands through the hourglass, so are the pieces of sets once destroyed by los gatos ...

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Each year, over 90 million tons of recyclable materials end up in U.S. landfills. Recycling sorting has been mechanized for decades in the United States. Optical sorters are one of the most ...