A Pittsburgh startup is taking on the global recycling challenge with artificial intelligence. CleanRobotics has a method patent for its core technology, which its leaders used to develop their ...

In an era where technology evolves at a breakneck pace, our reliance on electronic devices is at an all-time high. This rapid advancement, however, brings with it a significant challenge: electronic ...

Once packaging leaves the consumer, it enters fragmented collection and sorting systems where contamination, infrastructure ...

A stupid plastic bottle in the trash caused the first squabble in the Zero Waste Challenge of 2015. I suppose I'm not surprised. I'd spent most of the week digging things out of the garbage, ...

CU Boulder continues to be sustainability stalwarts, earning 2024 GameDay Football Zero Waste Touchdown Challenge honors from the National Wildlife Federation for CU's tremendous efforts to reduce and ...

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 Faced with mounting domestic waste and outdated ...

A new study from Universitas Gadjah Mada shows that in urban Indonesia, waste sorting alone does not reduce landfill use ...

The Lagos State Government said it has concluded plans to make waste sorting at source mandatory as part of a broader strategy to modernise waste management and unlock the economic value embedded in ...

The use of plastic has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021, each person in the European Union (EU) generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging waste.

Amid mounting pressure on global supply chains, TOMRA’s advanced sensor-based sorting technology is helping mining companies recover valuable resources once considered waste – extending mine life, ...