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 ...

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 ...

The European Union-funded Reclaim project has successfully deployed a portable, artificial intelligence- (AI-) driven robotic material recovery facility (prMRF) in the Mediterranean summer destination ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A new clothing recycling project from Los Angeles-based nonprofit Homeboy Industries is breaking the cycle of gangs and going green at the same time. As part of Homeboy Threads, ...

Despite standout success in a few major cities, China's national garbage sorting campaign remains in its infancy in many other cities, with the practice yet to take hold among many residents, ...

China started small-scale trials of waste sorting in 2000, but landfill sites and unmanaged waste continued to encircle cities and local people protested plans to build more incinerators. Gradually, ...

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 ...