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, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado Springs' first Artificial Intelligence (AI) guided recycling robot is now operating. It's being used at the Republic Services Recycling Center, which is located just ...

The world has a trash problem. The amount of stuff we throw away is expected to nearly double, to 3.8 billion metric tons, by 2050. Reducing what we use would go a long way to addressing the issue, ...

Separation of garbage is somewhat confusing as human beings can make mistakes, everyone should have experienced lost that "This is what garbage ...?" A person who made a self-made sorting system that ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Over the weekend, the Kansas City Fire Department put its remote-controlled tracked robot into service for the first time. Fire officials say this new resource will save time, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On Saturday morning, the ...

A San Francisco recycling startup company has created an AI-powered robot to streamline the recycling process, and it's now being used in other plants across the country. Rebecca Hu and co-founder ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Over the weekend, the ...

BARKHAMSTED — A small regional recycling center is the first in Connecticut to obtain and use a Foam Cycle recycling machine, helping to remove plastic foam from their waste stream. The innovative ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On Saturday morning, the Kansas City Fire Department ushered in a new age of fire fighting after a large fire broke out at a recycling center near Bally’s Casino and CPKC Stadium.