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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers in Germany have launched a new initiative to develop an AI-powered robotic system ...

Totally autonomous sorting, a process most material recovery facility (MRF) operators have long considered unattainable, might be on the horizon. Can a completely autonomous processing system be next?

Melbourne-based recycling company APR Kerbside has begun using a robot in the materials separation process. The robot, from Canadian company Waste Robotics, is initially being used to separate Tetra ...

You may not think about it when tossing that empty cat food can into your curbside recycling container, but downstream there is a small army of people at Penn Waste trying to separate usable items ...