Separating Materials for Recycling Processes

Recycling is a circular economy system that allows participants to add value to cleaning the environment. Materials have been the major role player in improving old engineering systems and producing newest technologies to reduce the carbon footprint. There is a great effort in plastic recycling where profits are made, and poverty reduced to address the UN sustainable goals for 2030. Phosphors and other identifiers have been used to identify different plastics during separation. Similarly, paper and bottles can have additives and nanostructures that will make it easy to separate such materials during recycling. We report on the work done to identify glass, paper and plastic in recycling and make it a smooth process to produce new products. In addition, we have also embarked on educating the garbage pickers to enhance profits by proper separation.