Exploring the sorting process of recycling can help Northwest Indiana residents better understand the parameters of recycling right. One common myth is that all recyclables end up in landfills ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

German study proves automated sorting can recover nearly half of hospital plastic waste for recycling into new products ...

Researchers in Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Department of Chemical Engineering and at the University of Akron have published research in Chemical Engineering Journal about a new technology that ...

"First, trucks drop all the recycling on the tipping floor to be dumped onto the conveyor belt system. Next, employees pull large non-recyclables or hazardous materials off the conveyor belt to avoid ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

When it comes to curbside recycling, you usually don’t need to rinse containers, take lids off bottles or remove tape from cardboard boxes. But please stop putting shoes and batteries in your ...

German metal recycling company Gerhard Lang Recycling GmbH has installed an Autosort Pulse unit from Tomra Recycling, also based in Germany, at its metals sorting plant in southwestern Germany as part ...

Every day, around a thousand tons of recycled materials are dumped into towering piles at the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility (MRF). This state-of-the-art facility on Brooklyn’s waterfront ...

Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s environment.