Republic Services, the nation's second-largest waste management company, now have AI-powered robots in one-third of their ...

This trash can that sorts your refuse will soon be in use in Pittsburgh. Increasingly, when you find a trash can in a public place it has at least two openings—one for trash and one for recyclables.

Vietnamese inventor Tran Van Truong creates automated waste-sorting system to reclaim resources, reduce landfill waste, and revive polluted dump sites. Faced with mounting domestic waste and outdated ...

ASU is enhancing its efforts to improve landfill diversion with a new type of waste-sorting system installed last week. With the amount of foot traffic through the MU, it was necessary to find a way ...

Sorting trash into the right categories is pretty much a daily bother. Who hasn’t stood there in front of the two, three, five or more bins (depending on your area and country), pondering which bin it ...

For all the advances made by robot companies like Boston Dynamics, we're still a long way from having robots living among humans and performing assistive tasks in our day-to-day lives. Google's parent ...

Just a few years ago, operators of material recovery facilities (MRFs) would often wonder aloud whether the collection and processing of plastic bottles was worth the effort. Among the factors that ...

For the second time in 10 years, the city of Montgomery is trying to upend recycling, and they’re doing it without separate bins. Montgomery no longer asks residents to separate their trash and ...