Vietnamese inventor Tran Van Truong creates automated waste-sorting system to reclaim resources, reduce landfill waste, and revive polluted dump sites. Faced with mounting domestic waste and outdated ...

GeekWire is putting its own HQ2 in Pittsburgh for the month of February 2018 — reporting on the people, technologies and ideas transforming the industrial city into an innovation powerhouse. by Monica ...

There’s an old English saying: Where there’s muck, there’s brass. Garbage isn’t sexy, but it can be lucrative, if handled correctly—especially when it comes to retrieving and reusing recyclable ...

Black plastics pose an identification problem for sorting machines at recycling facilities, as the sensors can't see them. Canon has developed a system that users lasers and tracking tech to identify ...

For the second time in 10 years, the city of Montgomery is trying to upend recycling, and they’re doing it without separate bins. Montgomery no longer asks residents to separate their trash and ...

Austria-based Redwave says it will showcase its updated X-ray fluorescence (XRF) sorting machine at the IFAT 2016 exposition in Munich, 30 May to 3 June. At Redwave’s booth, located in hall C1 at ...

The adoption of any new policies such as bottle bills, reuse systems, EPR or certain food packaging bans could reduce disposal by 10% to 20% by 2040. Such changes could influence new jobs and ...

AISEE analyzer helps ValcopIA sort materials using artificial intelligence. ValcopIA, a French material recovery facility, uses AISEE to sort materials using artificial intelligence. Pellenc ST has ...

Metro and local recycling agencies are asking people to throw away plastic bags because they jam sorting machines and delay work at recycling centers. Hillsboro Far West Recycling center pulls out ...