Equipment

A newly opened materials recovery facility is employing a host of sortation technologies to separate curbside materials from households in...

Nebraska doles out grants for recycling market development and other materials recovery initiatives. Colorado, meanwhile, is accepting applications for waste-diversion...

Oregon awards $1.2 million to support materials diversion efforts, and California makes $24 million available to propel organics processing facilities....

Equipment from Dutch company Bollegraaf Recycling Solutions goes fishing at the head of the stream to remove films. The Filmgrabber...

Upgrades to a San Francisco materials recovery facility have boosted throughputs by nearly 40 percent and ensured the adaptability needed...

Optical sorters from Chinese company Hefei Angelon Electronics use the company's proprietary software to achieve high-purity fractions based on color....

A European Union panel approved a pair of proposals that bring recovered material into plastic food and beverage packaging. But...

A recyclable, recycled-content polyester material has been developed for automotive components, and a high-molecular-weight PLA could replace PP in packaging....

Chicago passes a budget that includes a fee on shopping bags, and Whirlpool offers an answer to food waste. Compost...

Five sorting centers in Quebec, Canada have been selected to take part in a pilot project that organizers hope will...