can lifecycle / reflective annotation
A can becomes a can-shaped memory.
Steel answers magnets. Aluminum flashes under the inspection lamp. Rinse quickly, keep labels if they cling, and let the loop redraw the object without sentimental attachment.
01The Resin Oracle
translucent sheet / municipal exception
Plastic begins as a code and ends as a local argument.
Turn each embossed tile like a tiny artifact. PET bottles may loop. PVC interrupts. Film waits at the store-return shrine. Every resin number needs the footnote of place.
02The Paper Snow Room
field entry / pulped archive
Paper dissolves into weather.
Cardboard, newsprint, envelopes, and cartons arrive as a blizzard of cellulose. Grease stains become redacted paragraphs; tape is a stubborn bracket; clean corrugate is a sturdy citation.
corrugate: flatten
receipt: thermal paper caution
shredded: bag only if required
pizza box: compost the greasy half
04The Compost Borderland
fogged classification / contamination margin
At the edge, labels pretend to be soil.
Food scraps, yard trimmings, paper towels, certified liners, and wishful bioplastics meet in a warm uncertain margin. Press the stamp when an item needs a local rule before it joins the pile.
PLA forktea bagpaper towelapple core
05The Revision Bale
acceptedbottle #1, rinsed, cap on
disputedblack plastic tray, optical sorter failed
correctedcarton goes with containers here
archived2019 bagged-shred rule retired
compressed history / commons shelf
Nothing is thrown away from the wiki; it is revised into the next bale.
recycle.wiki treats uncertainty as useful material. The codex collects local exceptions, repair ideas, and corrected assumptions until the loop is less mysterious for the next sorter.
Interactions are about classification and revision: sorting ambiguous objects by resin numbers, fiber condition, alloy memory, compost border, and local exception.
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