The Washington-based Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), Washington recently completed a potential multimaterial 2D/3D sorting test method, “Evaluation of the 2D/3D Sorting Potential of a Whole ...

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 pizza box can feel like a recycling pop quiz. It's cardboard, but there's also the greasy bottom and cheese residue. Should the box go into the blue recycling bin or into the trash? The wrong ...

New research confirms that the tedious daily habit of peeling labels off plastic bottles and rinsing and sorting plastic bags ...

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 ...

New research supports the value of household-level waste separation. But policies must also carefully consider consumer ...

Tetra Pak, a Switzerland-based food processing and packaging solutions company, has announced a further round of investment to upgrade food and beverage carton sorting capabilities in the United ...