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 Faced with mounting domestic waste and outdated ...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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the second time in 10 years, the city of Montgomery is trying to upend recycling, and they’re doing it without separate bins. Montgomery no longer asks residents to separate their trash and ...

AISEE analyzer helps ValcopIA sort materials using artificial intelligence. ValcopIA, a French material recovery facility, uses AISEE to sort materials using artificial intelligence. Pellenc ST has ...

Metro and local recycling agencies are asking people to throw away plastic bags because they jam sorting machines and delay work at recycling centers. Hillsboro Far West Recycling center pulls out ...

Scrap cable and wire — previously treated as low-priority waste streams — now represent a commercially significant source of refined copper, provided that the separation process achieves sufficient ...