SEATTLE — The Recology King County Material Recovery Facility in south Seattle is embracing artificial intelligence-equipped robots to enhance its recycling process. Each weekday, the facility ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — A local recycling center in Colorado Springs is using a robot to help sort waste items. It is becoming more common to recycle, but it can be hard to understand how to properly ...

Entering Recology’s recycling facility in South Seattle stuns your senses. The din from heavy machinery is continuous. While recycled goods are meant to be clean from food waste, your nose quickly ...

If you throw a plastic water bottle or yogurt cup in a recycling bin, it might not necessarily be recycled. Inside sprawling warehouses that the industry calls “MRFs” or materials recovery facilities, ...

The Washington-based Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) is using an innovative financing model to fund a robot at a California material recovery facility (MRF) owned by Caglia Environmental, ...

Despite good intentions to make changes that support the environment, companies are still sending items to the landfill that could otherwise be recycled. While the world is producing nearly twice as ...

PITTSBURGH — With prices of everything going up, recycling helps keep prices down. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute are doing what they can by developing a robot that, in ...

An automated recycling centre has helped push a council close to its household recycling target 10 years ahead of schedule. The government has asked local authorities to recycle 65% of municipal waste ...

The first-grade teachers at Pierce Terrace Elementary School challenged their students to create robots from recycled materials in the English Language Arts class, which parallels the use of ...

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