A Glacier robot positioned on the sorting line at Seattle’s King County MRF. | Photo by Colin Staub
A Seattle-area sorting facility operated by Recology has installed imaging and sorting equipment supplied by Glacier, adding another major MRF to the company’s two-dozen customers. Glacier also announced it has raised additional capital that CEO Rebecca Hu-Thrams said will help the company grow further and faster. Continue Reading
A newly opened materials recovery facility is employing a host of sortation technologies to separate curbside materials from households in one of America’s largest cities. Continue Reading
Oregon awards $1.2 million to support materials diversion efforts, and California makes $24 million available to propel organics processing facilities.
By tweaking existing equipment, materials recovery facilities could reduce the amount of flexible film packaging landing in their fiber bales, an industry study concluded.
A town in Iowa looks to remove glass from its curbside stream, and a Southern California city renews a contract with Waste Management.
Officials in one Michigan county are calling their new curbside program a success, and a large Canadian city bans plastic bags.
Chicago passes a budget that includes a fee on shopping bags, and Whirlpool offers an answer to food waste.
The U.S. officially withdraws from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and an Oklahoma community struggles with high rates of contamination in curbside carts.
ReCommunity has filed a federal lawsuit against Ann Arbor, Mich., alleging the City violated and wrongfully terminated the company’s MRF-operating contract.
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