This Frankenstein does anything but scare the townspeople.
Associate Editor Jared Paben has worked for Resource Recycling since December 2014. Most of his earlier career was spent as a reporter for the daily newspaper in Bellingham, Wash., but he also has experience working for the Oregon volunteerism commission and for Oregon nonprofits serving low-income populations. He can be contacted at [email protected].This Frankenstein does anything but scare the townspeople.
An equipment company has given its intelligent robot a new task in a new workplace. The artificial intelligence sortation unit will recover six separate materials at a facility in the U.K.
A Portland, Ore. reclaimer is making plans for a facility that would sort out less commonly recycled plastics coming from across the region.
Online advertising can be an effective way to direct residents to local recycling program webpages, a recent study shows, but not all advertising platforms are equally effective.
The state of California’s goal is to achieve a 75 percent recycling and composting rate by 2020. That big goal is what partially drove Waste Management to build a big MRF in the Los Angeles area.
The state of California is helping to finance a facility that will process glass fines into a product used in high-strength concrete. Meanwhile, state regulators recently approved new reporting and inspection rules for glass sorting and cleanup facilities.
Continue Reading
A research paper on individual steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has precipitated a host of mainstream media stories, many of which aren’t kind to recycling.
When it comes to the way states measure materials diversion, it’s less apples to oranges and more apples to 49 different types of fruit. That makes it difficult to comprehensively assess the industry.
Global packaging producer Sonoco recycled the equivalent of 57 percent of the packaging it placed on the market last year.