How AI Is Changing Recycling | Marketplace

Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal tours Athens Services in Southern California to find out what happens to all the things we recycle every day.
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[@wonchoi1564]

Cool video. Great to see Kai out in the world! More videos please! That sorting machine is amazing!

[@bruintoo]

Welcome to my world for the last 23 years! I work for LASAN and have been working with private MRFs for years. I recommend visiting Waste Management’s Sun Valley Recycling Park just down the street from the Athens facility for an even newer and more state of the art MRF. And I also recommend visiting Potential Industries down in Wilmington for a MRF that is closer to the port for moving markets. It even has higher recovery rate than both valley facilities.

[@TheBeyond3r]

What are the recovery rates for these 3 MRF’s?

[@mikemikeyee]

Oh more videos please, this was really cool

[@Checkthefineprint]

Just heard the story and dropped in for the video, thanks Kai. Subscribed and looking forward to your informative stories!

[@natureisgorgeous]

The key question - for the 1000 tons which come in, how much actually gets recycled compared to how much ends up in landfills? And is that worth the carbon footprint of the recycling truck driving around?

[@iarwainthabombadil7724]

I am not against AI sorting styro and letting the Ridwell company do whatever nasty thing they do. Kai should mascot coffee or OJ or granola or something else normal people start their morning with other than MONEY. Whatever coffee company gets to the Kai Ridwell morning blend first is gonna be Rich AF, IRL.

[@ashleyhaug6567]

I'm a high school teacher, and heard this segment on Marketplace on my drive home yesterday. My environmental science class is currently in a unit on consumerism and waste, and had talked about recycling that day! So today, they all got to see this clip. Thanks for contributing to our class, Marketplace! The whole radio segment was fantastic. Would love to see an extended video.

[@hunter.and.sarah.education]

Been listening to Markeplace off and on for a few years, and probably haven’t missed an episode in the last 24 months. But this… this was the first time I ever SAW Kai after listening to his voice for hundreds of hours 😂😂😂 Good to see you’re a real person! Keep up the cool YT videos 🤙🏻

[@stevenestelle5211]

With everything going on in the 🌎.Kai getting rid of the family van was the biggest headline to me

[@Lawtubes]

Kai is so cool.

[@BorrietheBlade]

Great stuff. I would've preferred the entire video as I heard the report this afternoon. The report wasn't 2ish mins. But why was the frame so off? At the end it focused on Kai and 1 of the workers. Why crop out the other one? Why was the camera operator so zoomed in on Kai to start, and then it zoomed out to capture, again, only 1 of the workers in this piece? Just seemed, rushed, like you only had 4 mins to capture what in reality was a a solid 30min capture. I am grateful for it either way but it was just ...off...a little you know? Anyways, cheers Marketplace and APM.

[@14sasst]

It’s going to take a long time to reconcile this Kai with the Kai in my mind from radio.

[@preludeofme]

I wonder if anyone tracks what goes through here and does any kind of analysis to find trends

[@NestingInNashville]

Cool! I’ve never been to a recycling plant. Kids need to do this as a field trip. Hopefully they’ll be better at this than we were.

[@markharmel2786]

One of the best interviewers around.

[@fudgemonkeys5896]

Loving the videos!