The BioRhythm product was developed by capstone design students to help sort plastics into trash, recycling and compost at large events. Engineering seniors and graduate students put their skills to ...

An increasing amount of electronic waste is not being properly disposed of but is often discarded together with plastic waste, for example. If the batteries in these products are damaged, they can ...

Robots are taking over the dirty work of sorting through our trash and turning it into valuable resources. And not just any robots, but smart robots that use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify ...

The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For ...

A simple online game can teach people to more accurately sort waste -- with lasting results, a new study has found. Study participants who played the game received immediate feedback on their sorting ...

The global equipment provider says its sorting technology installed in Stockholm can process 50 tons of municipal solid waste per hour. Equipment at the SVOA Stockholm plant has been positioned on ...

Stadler Anlagenbau GmbH, a Germany-based maker of sorting systems and equipment, has designed and installed a new 50,000-square-meter mechanical waste sorting plant that will serve the island of Ibiza ...

National Harbor, Md. — Polypropylene is just as big in packaging as PET but it is recycled at a fraction of PET. Only 8 percent of 1.2 million tons of post-consumer PP is recycled. But getting this ...