The removal of sorting machines, for instance, has been a high-profile issue.

比如，一直备受关注的拆除分拣机计划。

Plastic bags are not accepted at curbside bins because they clog up the sorting machines.

路边垃圾箱不接受塑料袋，因为它们堵塞了分拣机。

They included cuts in retail hours and removal of some collection boxes and sorting machines.

这些措施包括减少零售时间，拆除一些收集箱和分拣机。

This year the agency had planned to limit the overtime hours employees could work and remove some mail sorting machines and public mailboxes.

今年，该机构计划限制员工的加班时间，并拆除一些邮件分拣机和公共邮箱。

And if the sorting machines at recycling plants could talk, they would probably be moaning too.

如果回收厂的分拣机会说话， 它们可能也会发出呻吟声。

Chemical tracing involves embedding a marker in the label or plastic resin that shows up fluorescent under UV light, so it can be detected by specially designed sorting machines.

化学追踪包括在标签或塑料树脂中嵌入标记， 在紫外光下会发出荧光， 因此可以通过专门设计的分选机检测到。

" If the sensors cannot fully identify the material or if it's covered by a sleeve or label, then this can give the sorting machine some headaches, " he says.

“如果传感器无法完全识别材料， 或者如果材料被套筒或标签覆盖， 那么这可能会给分拣机带来一些麻烦， ” 他说。

Especially in " The Tyranny of Merit" (published in 2020), Professor Sandel has argued that using education as a giant sorting machine creates a toxic obsession with credentials, dividing society into winners and losers and depleting the common good.

尤其是在2020年出版的《精英的傲慢》一书中，桑德尔教授认为，把教育当作一台巨大的分类机器，会产生一种对成绩证书的有毒的痴迷，从而将社会分成赢家和输家，并让公共利益所剩无几。