The Decatur City Council unanimously approved the purchase of three artificial intelligence sorting machines and a new baler ...

Vietnamese inventor Tran Van Truong creates automated waste-sorting system to reclaim resources, reduce landfill waste, and revive polluted dump sites. Faced with mounting domestic waste and outdated ...

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 ...

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 ...

GeekWire is putting its own HQ2 in Pittsburgh for the month of February 2018 — reporting on the people, technologies and ideas transforming the industrial city into an innovation powerhouse. by Monica ...

Tossing everything into the blue bin (or however it’s sorted in your area) feels like a good deed for the planet. People frequently toss paper, plastic, and metal in without a second glance. This well ...

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 ...

Automated sorting equipment from Tomra Recycling is helping a Spanish company convert discarded food trays into ...