The Complete Complex

The Complete Complex is the future of recycling. Housing everything from employee sorting and AI robots to pick away those hard to distinguish plastics. Once the plastics are sorted and flow to their respective areas, they are stored and processed with the many advancing recycling techniques. To then be ready to distribute to the supply chain. The articles in my science and technology section are all diversely independent, so when thinking of the ideal future of recycling and closing loops, I'd want a facility that could manage multiple steps of the process.

With this process there could be a section for non hazardous medical waste, typical #2 & #6 plastics, irregular plastics, and even room for experimenting with the fungi that break down plastics.

Its hard telling how long or what infrastructure would be needed to actually run a facility that could do AI sorting, purification, sanitization, and biological approaches. But how are some ways we could group together processes?

Would there be an economic motivator for companies to start investing in facilities like these?

What would the energy footprint that a building that could house all of this entail– would it be a more sustainable option, or place more of a utility strain on an area?

Reference.

Fungi makes meal of hard-to-recycle plastic. The University of Sydney. (2023, April 14). https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/04/14/fungi-makes-meal-of-hard-to-recycle-plastic.html

Sutliff, B. (2025, January 30). From trash to cash: How ai and machine learning can help make recycling less expensive for local governments. NIST. https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/trash-cash-how-ai-and-machine-learning-can-help-make-recycling-less-expensive