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Mixed plastic is definitely impressive, but how is it separated? I imagine a lot of it must be done by hand? And then washed with water? Seems both labor intensive and energy intensive



No, they pass it through successively intensive process conditions, each of which selects for a different plastic type. No need to wash, their process is water based and some contamination from organic material actually helps in saturating the output product.




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