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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

As the recovery and separation of plastics from consumer and commercial waste streams becomes more of a global priority, at least one industry expert says it’s become virtually impossible for material ...

Metro and local recycling agencies are asking people to throw away plastic bags because they jam sorting machines and delay work at recycling centers. Hillsboro Far West Recycling center pulls out ...

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 ...