A team of students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy investigated whether recycling facilities could effectively sort plastics by the sounds they ...

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 ...

To punish those who don't sort their garbage correctly, cameras are installed in garbage trucks and their images are analyzed by an AI. The proliferation of waste sorting bins in our towns and cities ...

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 ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Oakland workers went around the city Wednesday, inspecting trash cans. These workers wanted to make sure Oaklanders were properly throwing away their garbage. This means ...

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 ...

A Greeley official has offered more details about the unknown business in talks to build an $85 million plastics recycling plant on Greeley’s east side, as well as a $12 million municipal waste ...

Around the world, cities and recycling facilities are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to transform how waste is processed — and not just to clean up the planet. Innovative AI systems ...

The city of Greeley and an unknown company are in serious talks to construct an advanced plastic recycling plant on the city’s east side, as well as a municipal waste sorting and transfer facility, ...