EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - At Michigan State University’s Recycling Center, a new team member is making quick work of bottles, cans, and other recyclables, and it’s not a student or staff member.

Robotic technology is helping sort through recycling from Lancaster and other central Pennsylvania businesses and residents. At the Penn Waste Materials Recovery Facility in York, a new robot has ...

The company has installed an Amp One AI-enabled system at its site in Portsmouth, Virginia, after upgrading a site in North Carolina earlier this month. Amp installs new recycling sorting system in ...

Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on May 5, 2025 at 7:00 am May 5, 2025 at 8:07 am The ...

Artificial intelligence and automation are impacting some jobs that humans don't always want to do. Robots are being used to sort through waste at recycling centers to combat worker shortages. In some ...

If you throw a plastic water bottle or yogurt cup in a recycling bin, it might not necessarily be recycled. Inside sprawling warehouses that the industry calls “MRFs” or materials recovery facilities, ...

Aunique preprocessing (PreP) facility operated by PureCycle Technologies Inc. of Orlando, Florida, has made a big leap in technology by eliminating all human sorters and delivering polypropylene (PP) ...

Project uses artificial intelligence to identify, grab, and separate food and beverage cartons DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In its ongoing efforts to advance food and beverage carton recycling, the Carton ...

At the Boulder County Recycling Center in Colorado, two team members spend all day pulling items from a conveyor belt covered in junk collected from the area’s bins. One plucks out juice cartons and ...

New legal requirements for textile collection have created a strained situation for municipalities and other stakeholders who ...

Forward-looking: As devices become obsolete at an alarming rate, the issue of electronic waste has become increasingly pressing. A project has emerged combining measurement and robot technology with ...