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Punkawallah

Veteran
Why are the best surgeons called eminent ?

AFAiK it comes from the Latin for ‘protuberant’.
 

Animo

Senior Member
If your local recycling centre is anything like mine, machines aren't really involved. Humans do the sorting.

I always assumed that was the case, hence my original question as to why it would be preferable to now have glass mixed up with everything else.
 
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