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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

The primary goal of metal recyclers is to quickly and accurately identify, verify and sort alloys to maximize their return on investment. The materials found in a scrapyard can be highly diverse, ...

Single-sort recycling is coming to Mankato, eventually. Neither the city of Mankato nor its hauler, Waste Management, is saying much about their months-long negotiations over the recycling changes.

As commodity prices have fallen, one western material recovery facility (MRF) has sought to find ways to improve the quality and quantity of the plastics it recovers for recycling. Revolve Recycling, ...

I’ll admit it. When I was assigned a recycling story I kinda rolled my eyes. I mean everyone knows how to recycle, right? What was I going to learn that I didn’t already know? Boy, was I wrong. We ...

For many businesses and individuals, recycling is already second nature—but being green is about to become a little easier for residents of Minneapolis. The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor R.T.

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 ...