Something old; something new; something borrowed; something blue. This traditional bride-to-be rhyme could easily apply to the recycling industry which uses old and new sorting technologies; has ...

When the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), Washington, brought a group of government and packaging industry leaders together for the Pacific Northwest Secondary Sorting Demonstration Project ...

There are a number of startups working to improve trash sorting with robots. AMP Robotics is near the top of the list, coupling a picker and a conveyor belt to sort materials in large, automated ...

At Stony Brook University, researchers are developing an AI-assisted system to analyze and characterize contaminated items in ...

The world is drowning in trash. Global waste is expected to reach 3.8 billion metric tons by 2050, almost double what we throw away today. Cutting back on consumption would help, but that’s easier ...

The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For ...