The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For ...

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 ...

ZenRobotics, a Terex brand, has introduced ZenRobotics 4.0, its fourth generation of waste sorting robots with new features and upgraded artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize and improve the ...

Germany-based Stadler Group, with North American offices in Colfax, North Carolina, has commissioned what the company describes as the world’s first fully automated waste sorting plant in late 2015.

Plastic, textiles, e-waste and more end up at the vast Dandora site, where waste pickers spend all hours sifting through toxic debris looking for recyclables ...

Our research on apartments and plastic use in four cities—Melbourne, London, Barcelona and Perth—found apartments present extra challenges for waste production, collection, sorting and disposal. Our ...