Waste Management of Orange County have unveiled a $1.7 million state-of-the-art recycling sort line using the latest eco-technology. The sort line is located at the company’s Irvine, Calif., ...

Ever wondered what happens to the recyclables you carefully sort and place in your bin? For years, recycling has been a crucial part of our efforts to reduce waste and protect the environment. However ...

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 ...

EverestLabs, the Fremont, California-based developer of RecycleOS, an artificial intelligence- (AI-) enabled operating system for material recovery facilities (MRFs) and recyclers, has partnered with ...

Robots are taking over the dirty work of sorting through our trash and turning it into valuable resources. And not just any robots, but smart robots that use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify ...

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 ...

Recycling is hard. Most Americans don’t know what should go into their recycling bins — and when they guess, they often guess wrong and gum up the works of recycling facilities in the process. This ...

The quality of recycled plastic tends to be higher when the waste is pre-sorted by households compared with plastics recovered from mixed waste at a recycling facility in the Netherlands, research in ...

Florence launches a fully automated recycling line to sort aluminum, steel, and more. Mayor Tyler says it strengthens the city’s recycling program. He found a lost WWII submarine after decades of ...