A San Francisco recycling startup company has created an AI-powered robot to streamline the recycling process, and it's now being used in other plants across the country. Rebecca Hu and co-founder ...

If you throw a plastic water bottle or yogurt cup in a recycling bin, it might not necessarily be recycled. Inside sprawling warehouses that the industry calls “MRFs” or materials recovery facilities, ...

The Recology King County Material Recovery Facility in south Seattle is embracing artificial intelligence-equipped robots to enhance its recycling process. Each weekday, the facility processes 300 ...

Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on May 5, 2025 at 7:00 am May 5, 2025 at 8:07 am The ...

Artificial intelligence proves to be affecting everything the light touches as the robotics firm Glacier has reportedly introduced AI-powered robot capabilities in waste management. The robots can ...

Last week, TechCrunch paid a visit to Apple’s Austin, Texas, manufacturing facilities. Since 2013, the company has built its Mac Pro desktop about 20 minutes north of downtown. The 400,000-square-foot ...

Robotic technology is helping sort through recycling from Lancaster and other central Pennsylvania businesses and residents. At the Penn Waste Materials Recovery Facility in York, a new robot has ...

It was a hard blow to take when a fire swept through Penn Waste’s Manchester Township recycling center last March. “One of the devastating things for me was seeing the employees in the parking lot ...

Entering Recology’s recycling facility in South Seattle stuns your senses. The din from heavy machinery is continuous. While recycled goods are meant to be clean from food waste, your nose quickly ...