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 ...

AI is transforming recycling by identifying valuable materials in everyday trash, turning waste into profit while advancing the circular economy.

German study proves automated sorting can recover nearly half of hospital plastic waste for recycling into new products ...

At the Boulder County Recycling Center in Colorado, two team members spend all day pulling items from a conveyor belt covered in junk collected from the area’s bins. One plucks out juice cartons and ...

In Sun Valley, California, a neighborhood north of Los Angeles, around 250 trucks per day dump onto a concrete floor 1,000 tons of cardboard, plastic, aluminum and anything else people have thrown ...

AI and deep learning boost recycling efficiency 60% as cities adopt smart waste systems for circular economy transformation ...

Miami makes it easy to recycle on campus — simply place your recyclables in the blue single-stream recycle bins located next to the gray waste bins in most buildings. After collection and transport to ...

Millions of recyclable materials are put into incorrect waste streams every year. The UK startup Greyparrot uses AI to help mitigate environmental harm from improper waste disposal. This article is ...

UMass Amherst is using two AI-focused tools to cut down on its waste and more effectively sort trash from recycling. School ...

I like to think of myself as a good caretaker of the planet. To that end, I am faithful about placing my recyclable waste items—plastic containers, glass bottles and jars, cans, paper and ...

It’s a question many of us have asked on bin day – how much of our houeshold recycling is actually recycled, and how much is sent to landfill or burned? Recycling rates are actually falling in some ...