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 ...

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 ...

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 processes 300 ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics company Glacier, based in San Francisco, has raised $7.7 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Menlo Park, California, and Amazon's Climate ...

The 400 refuse trucks that roll into Caglia Environmental’s Cedar Avenue Recycling and Transfer Station (CARTS) in Fresno, California, six days a week bring all manner of material. Crushed boxes, ...

A recycling robot recently moved into Shakopee. And it has a craving for cartons. A new robot at Dem-Con Companies' recycling facility is being used to detect and remove milk containers and other ...

First-grade students at Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Pierce Terrace Elementary on Fort Jackson, S.C. recently tested their creativity by designing and constructing helpful robots ...

Penn Waste has implemented AI-powered robots to improve the safety and efficiency of its recycling sorting process. Developed by startup Glacier, the AI robots can identify 70 different materials and ...