You may not think about it when tossing that empty cat food can into your curbside recycling container, but downstream there is a small army of people at Penn Waste trying to separate usable items ...

Recycling today kind of sucks. People are generally confused about what can be recycled and where. As a result, only about 32% of eligible waste actually gets recycled. It would be a lot easier if ...

Recycle Ann Arbor's longtime staff, Michelle Moravcik and Diego Tambriz, sort out contamination from the facility's paper to help ensure the cleanest end materials possible. (Recycle Ann Arbor) The ...

Researchers in Germany have launched a new initiative to develop an AI-powered robotic system ...

It is estimated that more than 100 billion clothing items are produced globally each year, with most eventually entering recycling systems. Sorting used textiles by hand requires considerable manual ...

Robotic technology is helping sort through recycling from Lancaster and other central Pennsylvania businesses and residents. At the Penn Waste Materials Recovery Facility in York, a new robot has ...

Totally autonomous sorting, a process most material recovery facility (MRF) operators have long considered unattainable, might be on the horizon. Can a completely autonomous processing system be next?

At the Boulder County Recycling Center in Colorado, two team members spend all day pulling items from a conveyor belt covered in junk collected from the area’s bins. One plucks out juice cartons and ...

Melbourne-based recycling company APR Kerbside has begun using a robot in the materials separation process. The robot, from Canadian company Waste Robotics, is initially being used to separate Tetra ...

Penn Waste has implemented AI-powered robots to improve the safety and efficiency of its recycling sorting process. Developed by startup Glacier, the AI robots can identify 70 different materials and ...