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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to recycling, the easier it is, the more people will do it. That's the upshot of Maple Grove's experiment with a new sort-free recycling service. After the city abandoned a pre-sorting ...

The fully automated circuit, including the shredder, eddy current and optical sorter, expanded Premier Surplus’ electronic scrap processing capacity by 300 percent versus manual sorting. Processing ...

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.

WILLMAR — Time may be up for the nearly 30-year-old, multi-sort recycling program run by Kandiyohi County. Changes in technology and the economics of recycling mean that the county system cannot meet ...

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 ...