Three optical sorters and a variety of screening technologies form the upgraded backbone of a recently re-opened California MRF.
Three optical sorters and a variety of screening technologies form the upgraded backbone of a recently re-opened California MRF.
Discussion of how China’s National Sword campaign is affecting the North American recycling industry continued to draw our readers’ attention in May.
Materials recovery facilities have long been vocal about the impacts they’re seeing from a shifting waste stream. A new group is now aiming to elevate the voice of compost operations in that conversation.
How successful are existing sortation systems at separating flexible packaging? New research aims to answer that question.
This is the first in a series of four articles that will discuss three codependent variables that must be addressed as part of any attempt to capture food waste from residential, institutional or commercial settings. Continue Reading
Matanya Horowitz of AMP Robotics addresses the crowd at the Recycling Innovators Forum.
The third-annual Recycling Innovators Forum has awarded $20,000 to AMP Robotics, a Colorado-based startup that aims to provide low-cost robotic sortation options to the recycling industry. Continue Reading
A bio-derived plastic that could replace PET in food and drink packaging has received interim recycling approval from an industry organization in Europe.
Call2Recycle has reported record volumes as it expands its focus beyond the realm of rechargeable batteries.
If a municipal recycling program wants to increase its performance, local government engagement is needed. Several program leaders made that clear during a discussion hosted by the U.S. EPA last week.
The ton has done a lot of evolving over the past three decades. And to better manage the changing composition of incoming materials, EBI Environnement made major upgrades to its MRF last fall.