I am aware of the technology. The problem is that in Prince Edward Island, we have a full source-separated program. What that means is that each home in the province is required to source-separate its waste into multiple streams, namely, compost, recyclables, and waste.
If Mrs. Smith in Charlottetown or Mr. MacDonald in Summerside opens up a package of Christie cookies and the loop or the identifying marker on the label on that packaging is not visible, they're not about to have an optical sorter to determine that. So what they have to do is....
If they're in doubt, we can't recycle it, when clearly it could have been a recyclable product if the manufacturer had simply made it identifiable as such.