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 ...

Artificial intelligence and automation are impacting some jobs that humans don't always want to do. Robots are being used to sort through waste at recycling centers to combat worker shortages. In some ...

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 ...

Single-sort recycling is coming to Mankato, eventually. Neither the city of Mankato nor its hauler, Waste Management, is saying much about their months-long negotiations over the recycling changes.

The primary goal of metal recyclers is to quickly and accurately identify, verify and sort alloys to maximize their return on investment. The materials found in a scrapyard can be highly diverse, ...