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.

Recycling today kind of sucks. People are generally confused about what can be recycled and where. As a result, only about 32% of eligible waste actually gets recycled. It would be a lot easier if ...

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 ...

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Recycle Ann Arbor's longtime staff, Michelle Moravcik and Diego Tambriz, sort out contamination from the facility's paper to help ensure the cleanest end materials possible. (Recycle Ann Arbor) The ...

Comet Traitement's Megapicker integrates robotics for high-speed sorting of non-ferrous metals, closing the recycling loop ...

ZenRobotics, a Terex brand, has introduced ZenRobotics 4.0, its fourth generation of waste sorting robots with new features and upgraded artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize and improve the ...

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) ...

It is estimated that more than 100 billion clothing items are produced globally each year, with most eventually entering recycling systems. Sorting used textiles by hand requires considerable manual ...