Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[Alex321]

Why are the best surgeons called eminent ?

For the same reason the best people in any professional field are called eminent.

The dictionary definition of the word is "Famous, respected, or important".

 

[Punkawallah]

Why are the best surgeons called eminent ?

AFAiK it comes from the Latin for ‘protuberant’.

 

[AndyRM]

Interesting. How does a machine differentiate between the different materials?

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

 

[Animo]

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.

 

[DRM]

Interesting. How does a machine differentiate between the different materials?

I haven't got the slightest clue, but I saw the various waste electronic items going up the conveyor belt , and saw the bags filling up with the separated items, the thing did vibrate quite violently, and this must have been key to how it worked, as the various materials would have different weights/density to them

 

[DRM]

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

And once separated , then all your plastic waste goes to a recycling facility in Washington, where it gets bailed up and shipped off to eventually be ground up into pellets to make more plastic stuff