A few years ago I was looking at a scheme to tag products with disassembly and recycling instructions. The idea is a barcode (or machine readable) tag that links to how to disassemble it to recover the recyclables.
The information would be things like “locate points A&B, clamp at points C&D, knife/chop 3cm from point A to separate case halves, case is ABS, neodymium magnets located 5cm from point B, heat to 150C to melt out tab E, etc.”
It would require incredible cooperation throughout the supply chain to make such a process feasible. But not impossible.
