Plastics are key components of almost any technology today. Although their production consumes substantial feedstock resources, plastics largely disposed after service life. In terms a circular economy1–8, reuse post-consumer sorted polymers (‘mechanical recycling’) is hampered by deterioration materials performance9,10. Chemical recycling1,11 via depolymerization to monomer offers an alternati...

Automatically assigning tasks to people is challenging because human performance can vary across for many reasons. This challenge further compounded in real-life settings which no oracle exists assess the quality of decisions and task assignments made. Instead, we find ourselves a “closed” decision-making loop same fallible rely on practice must also be used guide allocation. How imperfect pote...