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by userbinator 83 days ago
China has been doing this sort of recycling for literally decades, at a massive scale.
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that's true, but we've only seen either highly specialized hardware that forces you to lock in or a methods (tumbling / rotary shredding) that destroy the components. we want to leverage general purpose policies more to make the cost of setting up "hardware reuse" nodes less and thus the whole supply chain more distributed and robust.