Most plastic is not getting recycled, and AI robots could be a solution

Humans have enlisted nearly 100 AI-powered robots in North American to come to the rescue for something humans are terrible at: recycling. Even when we try to do it right, we're often making things worse; About one out of every four of the things people throw into the recycling bin aren't recyclable at all. All those misplaced greasy pizza boxes (not recyclable) and clamshell containers tossed in with the plastics, have imperiled an industry that was never really that effective in the first place. Only a small fraction of the over 2.1 billion tons of the garbage the world produces each year gets recycled -- about 16%. And even that small sliver has gotten smaller over the past year.