Barcode readers excel at quickly identifying groceries and other products. Could a similar idea work at industrial recycling ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of it ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more ...

Most of us grew up sorting our trash with the quiet confidence that the plastic we set out on the curb would find a second ...

Plastics recycling is evolving but still faces major challenges as material types are more varied and complex than ever. This complexity often creates issues in sorting, making it difficult for ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

Matanya Horowitz has a pitch that sounds almost too clean. His company, AMP, deploys cameras and robotic arms that can identify and sort about 90% of the material moving through a recycling facility. ...

Bakcycle Recycling optically sorts and harvests LDPE plastic from flexible packaging at a facility in Izmir, Turkey. In a sorting process based on color and polymer, the first and second Tomra ...

New research confirms that the tedious daily habit of peeling labels off plastic bottles and rinsing and sorting plastic bags ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. workers sorting plastic bottles - cazawi/Shutterstock Recycling can be a complicated business, and plastic recycling makes it even ...

The US plastics recycling system is hemorrhaging materials and money, with a staggering 79% of recyclable plastics, paper, glass, and metals never reaching processing facilities, according to The ...