A while back, AnandTech wrote up a tour of NewEgg’s shipping facility. NewEgg (a descendent of Egghead Software) is a popular online merchant for DIY PCs and electronics in general. How an order is filled and shipped is interesting on its own, but what really caught my eye was that NewEgg has an automated recycling process- workers simply “toss away” cardboxes into holes in the floor, and the rest of it is done by machines! I firmly believe that people only adopt new technology when it, at the least, doesn’t hinder what they’re already doing, and this is an excellent example of how recycling going mainstream.

AnandTech’s Tour, pg 5

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