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I have recently discovered how much of a pain it is if you accidentally cross your conveyor belts. In this case, I switched a couple of train unloading stations from iron ore to copper ore and forgot to change the lines. An hour later, and my main bus was an assortment of copper plates and iron plates and it took me forever to sort it out. If I could have placed a filter on the deconstruction planner for copper plates, it would have been so much easier.

There's an items on ground select it might just be as simple as adding items on belts and you can clear all the belts into storage chests and have the logistics network reload them

You cannot select items on belts due to some reasons, for example: Items are moving and get crafted: Is the crafted item then also selected or not? This is similar to items in logistic robots.

You need to deconstruct belts, then filter them out and reconstruct it.

IMHO not part of vanilla; a modder can automate something like that, but I think the use-case is too rare.