When you toss your newspaper, or plastic bottle or aluminum can in a mixed recycling bin, someone, somewhere, has to sort the material out so it can be turned into something new. The sorting is an ...

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 ...

To celebrate the grand reopening of the 54,000-square-foot Peabody Recycling Center, located at 109 Newbury St., Republic Services marked the occasion with a ribbon-cutting before showing off the ...

There’s an old English saying: Where there’s muck, there’s brass. Garbage isn’t sexy, but it can be lucrative, if handled correctly—especially when it comes to retrieving and reusing recyclable ...

A new AI-powered machine in Zhangjiagang, China, revolutionizes textile recycling by sorting clothes at remarkable speeds, ...

The economics of wire recycling equipment make practical sense for a wide range of buyers. Scrap dealers, e-waste processors, cable manufacturers managing their own production offcuts, and municipal ...