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 ...

BERLIN, Conn.—Here’s a job the computers can take without much complaint: sorting recyclables. For humans, it is a foul, laborious job that entails standing over a conveyor belt, plucking beer cans ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Kent County Recycling and Education Center’s three newest workers are powered by artificial intelligence, and they’re quickly learning how to be more efficient. Kent County ...

You've probably been sorting recyclables from garbage for years, diligently rinsing containers, checking those tiny numbers on plastic bottles, and feeling at least a little virtuous about it. Maybe ...

Go inside a recycling facility in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. The city of Chicago has room for improvement when it comes to recycling. Chicago has one of the lowest recycling rates of ...

Sorting recyclables is not the most glorious chore in the world; however it must be done before setting your curbside bin out for pick-up. Here in Dunn County, our material recovery facility (where ...

The days of sorting recyclables into glass, plastic, metal and paper are now a thing of the past, at least in the Grand Forks region. Waste Management Inc., which provides recycling services in the ...

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 ...