EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - At Michigan State University’s Recycling Center, a new team member is making quick work of bottles, cans, and other recyclables, and it’s not a student or staff member.

Two EverestLabs robots in tandem to recover recyclable materials. These two robots alone keep 1 million recyclables out of landfills each year. AI “can” be a good thing. As in a robot that uses the ...

Recycling today kind of sucks. People are generally confused about what can be recycled and where. As a result, only about 32% of eligible waste actually gets recycled. It would be a lot easier if ...

Penn Waste has implemented AI-powered robots to improve the safety and efficiency of its recycling sorting process. Developed by startup Glacier, the AI robots can identify 70 different materials and ...

Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on May 5, 2025 at 7:00 am May 5, 2025 at 8:07 am The ...

It is estimated that more than 100 billion clothing items are produced globally each year, with most eventually entering recycling systems. Sorting used textiles by hand requires considerable manual ...

Robotic technology is helping sort through recycling from Lancaster and other central Pennsylvania businesses and residents. At the Penn Waste Materials Recovery Facility in York, a new robot has ...

Helsinki-based ZenRobotics Ltd. has announced a ZenRobotics Recycler waste sorting system has been operational at Carl F AB in Malmoe, Sweden, since February 2017. The company says this is the first ...

Totally autonomous sorting, a process most material recovery facility (MRF) operators have long considered unattainable, might be on the horizon. Can a completely autonomous processing system be next?