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Landfill Recycling Mine: Mobile and Autonomous Multi-Stage Separation
From Waste Stream to Recyclable Output
The fourteenth embodiment in application 19/540,453 is a landfill recycling mine. It comprises mobile and/or autonomous dis-assembly and separation systems. Separation is multi-stage: magnetic property separation (e.g., ferrous), weight-based sorting, and size classification. The process is iterative to achieve recyclable purity. Variants include a mobile dis-assembly plant and an autonomous robotics-controlled system. An integrated recycling line may include starch and carbon line arrangements. Output is sorted material meeting recycling standards.
The patent claims specify that the landfill recycling mine includes magnetic property separation, weight-based sorting, and size classification and is mobile or autonomous. So the invention is not just “recycling” in the abstract but a defined architecture: hopper, separation drums, output chutes (Figure 14), with the option to deploy as mobile or autonomous.
Landfills are distributed and often remote. Mobile systems can be brought to the waste; autonomous systems can reduce labor and improve consistency. The multi-stage separation (magnetic, weight, size) is chosen to handle mixed waste streams and produce outputs that downstream recyclers can use. Starch and carbon line arrangements suggest integration with organic and carbon-based recovery where applicable.
This embodiment is one of fifteen in the same utility application. Application # 19/540,453, Confirmation # 1134, Patent Center # 74480330. Filing date February 13, 2026.
Source: US Patent Application 19/540,453, Section 8.14, Figure 14, and Claims.
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