Recycling Robot

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7344503/Recycling-robot-sorts-rubbish-into-six-piles.html

This article is about a newly invented robot in Japan. The robot is used to help recycle. Using sensors and lasers it sorts rubbish into different recyclable catagories. The goal is to identify six different types of plastics that can be recycled so that they arent insinerated with the rest of the rubbbish. There are trials going on in other countries and a smaller version is being planned on to be built. I think this is interesting becasue we are coming up with more ways to identify materials that we can recycle that we didnt before. This is good because we are conserving more materials and helping the environment at the same time. This is important for those reasons too. If we can get that kind of equipment in America and get more people to recycle we can cut down on ome of the materials we are consuming.