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What happens at a Materials Recycling Facility? (MRF) - How does our sorting machine work?3:25

What happens at a Materials Recycling Facility? (MRF) - How does our sorting machine work?

101K views • 13 years ago
Devon Contract Waste
A short tour of a UK materials recycling facility showing how mixed recyclables are mechanically and optically sorted. Aluminum, ferrous metal, glass, paper, and trash come out as separate streams.
How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting7:53

How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting

7M views • 4 years ago
Tom Scott
Tom Scott visits the USPS Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, where keyers decipher mail images machines cannot read. It shows the lengths taken to decode bad handwriting.
Sega Saturn CD - Cracked after 20 years27:09

Sega Saturn CD - Cracked after 20 years

4.4M views • 10 years ago
debuglive
A look inside Dr Abrasive's lab as he engineers a flash-card replacement for the Sega Saturn optical drive after cracking its CD protection 20 years on.