EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - At Michigan State University’s Recycling Center, a new team member is making quick work of bottles, cans, and other recyclables, and it’s not a student or staff member.

You may not think about it when tossing that empty cat food can into your curbside recycling container, but downstream there is a small army of people at Penn Waste trying to separate usable items ...

Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on May 5, 2025 at 7:00 am May 5, 2025 at 8:07 am The ...

Rumpke Waste & Recycling added wider conveyors to its Cincinnati MRF to assist in preparing material for its new robots. Images: Rumpke Waste & Recycling It seems like a no-brainer today. Rumpke Waste ...

The company has installed an Amp One AI-enabled system at its site in Portsmouth, Virginia, after upgrading a site in North Carolina earlier this month. Amp installs new recycling sorting system in ...

Binghamton-based cement company KLAW Industries will use federal funding to create a new robotic sorting system for recycled glass. On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced KLAW ...

Robotic technology is helping sort through recycling from Lancaster and other central Pennsylvania businesses and residents. At the Penn Waste Materials Recovery Facility in York, a new robot has ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Southeastern Public Service Authority of Virginia has signed a 20-year contract with AMP to expand the use of AI sorting in what AMP called “the largest recycling project in the country.” The ...