Exploring the sorting process of recycling can help Northwest Indiana residents better understand the parameters of recycling right. One common myth is that all recyclables end up in landfills ...

Lakeshore Recycling Systems opened a $50 million materials recovery facility (MRF) last year called The Exchange to sort recyclables collected throughout Chicagoland. We pointed out the many benefits ...

ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith visits a University of Houston lab for a rare look at one way plastic could be recycled. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse ...

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 ...

Global battery volumes are surging, yet recycling rates remain critically low at just 45 percent in the U.K. and 49 percent in the EU. Small batteries, defined as those under 5 kilograms (11 pounds), ...

The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) – Europe has released a new case study titled Unlocking Recycling Potential: Automated Sorting Trials of Medical Plastic Waste, research building upon ...

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 ...

German metal recycling company Gerhard Lang Recycling GmbH has installed an Autosort Pulse unit from Tomra Recycling, also based in Germany, at its metals sorting plant in southwestern Germany as part ...

At just 17, Kevin Sun of Andover, Massachusetts, has developed a technology that could address one of the biggest challenges in plastic recycling: sorting different types of plastic accurately. Sun ...

The sorting stage was done at pilot scale in an operating environment, indicating PLA recycling can work outside lab ...