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 ...

German study proves automated sorting can recover nearly half of hospital plastic waste for recycling into new products ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / January 20, 2026 / The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) - Europe has ...

The optimized detection model is integrated into both a mobile application and a dedicated edge device, demonstrating that ...

The R&D Hub for Plastic Waste Processing of the Global Impact Coalition (GIC), led by TNO, brings together partners to ...

A pre-conference workshop at Recycling Today’s Plastics Recycling Conference & Trade Show in late June addressed advances in optical sorting technology for separating and sorting plastics. Workshop ...

Exploring the sorting process of recycling can help Northwest Indiana residents better understand the parameters of recycling right. One common myth is that all recyclables end up in landfills ...

German metal recycling company Gerhard Lang Recycling GmbH has installed an Autosort Pulse unit from Tomra Recycling, also based in Germany, at its metals sorting plant in southwestern Germany as part ...

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 ...

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and those variations in composition necessitate sorting out waste before ...

The initiative unites packaging producers and brands to improve recycling of small aluminium items often missed by current waste systems.