COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Supporters of single-use plastic bag bans implemented or being discussed across South Carolina believe limiting plastics would decrease litter and waste. However, reducing ...

Black plastics pose an identification problem for sorting machines at recycling facilities, as the sensors can't see them. Canon has developed a system that users lasers and tracking tech to identify ...

Canon has announced its entry into the recycling system market with the launch of its new plastic sorting equipment with innovative material identification technology. The equipment applies Raman ...

A team of students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy investigated whether recycling facilities could effectively sort plastics by the sounds they ...

Tossing everything into the blue bin (or however it's sorted in your area) feels like a good deed for the planet. People ...

“the first of its kind in the UK”. The Waste and Resources Action Programme is taking a keen interest in the project and is itself looking at ways to increase the expansion of bottle sorting capacity ...

When you toss your newspaper, or plastic bottle or aluminum can in a mixed recycling bin, someone, somewhere, has to sort the material out so it can be turned into something new. The sorting is an ...

When it comes to plastics sorting, one of the most technologically advanced companies is the U.K.’s Eco Plastics Ltd., based in Hemswell, in the county of Lincolnshire. The company specializes in ...

Back in the good old days (pre-2017), D.C. recycling brochures said it was just fine to put plastic bags in curbside recycling bins. The problem was, many of those bags weren’t really getting recycled ...