Why Waste Management and Recycling are Important for Health Visualize your community as a living, breathing entity. Each ...

What if your trash could sort itself? Across the country, recycling is getting a high-tech upgrade.. from AI powered robots ...

Ever wondered what happens to the recyclables you carefully sort and place in your bin? For years, recycling has been a crucial part of our efforts to reduce waste and protect the environment.

You separate your bottles. Rinse your cans. Maybe even toss food scraps into a bin labeled “compost.” But is it enough? And are you doing it right? Improving waste sorting and recycling isn’t just ...

Then the new sorting system goes to work, using optical scanners (there are more now), screens and even puffs of air to separate the plastic, paper and other materials for recycling. There are now ...

The new AI-powered robots, equipped with cameras, can sort through 45 items a minute, efficiently picking up materials like plastic and aluminum and depositing them into the appropriate recycling ...

(GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Entering Recology’s recycling facility in South Seattle ... in and out of devices that grind, toss and sort the plastic from paper from glass from cans.

The sorting machines will be used to produce PET flakes and rPET pellets.

Long before blue recycling bins were provided to homeowners, it was typical to see trash cans loaded with what are now recyclable paper, plastic and glass items. But sorting through the different ...