Recycling is hard. Most Americans don’t know what should go into their recycling bins — and when they guess, they often guess wrong and gum up the works of recycling facilities in the process.

Robots are being used to sort through waste at recycling centers to combat worker shortages. In some cases, these bots do the job better than humans, The Wall Street Journal reported. Many workers ...

gathering data to help improve the sorting process. CleanRobotics notes, “The recycling bin of the future doesn’t stop there, it also generates high-quality data for waste audits, triggers ...

Most U.S. residents who have recycling at home can toss items such ... This is the basic sorting process at the Manassas, Va., materials recovery facility. The types of equipment and the ...

Exploring the sorting process of recycling can help Northwest Indiana residents better understand the parameters of recycling right. One common myth is that all recyclables end up in landfills ...

Recyclers in Hutchinson, Stewart and the north side of Glencoe had their lives made a little easier this past week when McLeod County began its single-sort recycling program. “Things are going ...

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 ...