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 ...

Unlike traditional sorters, Pellenc ST's AISEE™ focuses on monitoring, analyzing and improving the quality of recyclable ...

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 ...

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Black plastics pose an identification problem for sorting machines at recycling facilities, as the sensors can't see them. Canon has developed a system that users lasers and tracking tech to identify ...

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A few years ago, Rebecca Hu-Thrams and her business partner, Areeb Malik, rented an attic from an ad on Craigslist to test ...

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 ...

Doğa PET, a new recycling venture by Doğa Holding, has partnered with Germany-based Tomra Recycling to use its sensor-based sorting solutions to produce polyethylene terephthalate (PET) flakes and ...

Recycling was a somewhat onerous process when first introduced in North America and Europe. Participants presorted glass, paper, plastic, and metal into separate, color-coded containers and placed ...