Vietnamese inventor Tran Van Truong creates automated waste-sorting system to reclaim resources, reduce landfill waste, and revive polluted dump sites.

Computer Recycling is poised to supercharge e-waste recycling in New Zealand, shifting the country from a laggard to a global leader. The Auckland-based company has bought and deployed the world’s ...

An additional 310 tonnes of recycling has been diverted from landfill each month since the new Portsmith facility began processing materials sourced from kerbside collection contractors. Plant ...

Canon has announced its entry into the recycling system market with the launch of its new plastic sorting equipment with innovative material identification technology. The equipment applies Raman ...

Sorting technology company says its compact shredded metal and fines sorting device offers 2 tons per hour of throughput. The CEO of Redwave says its new metallic fines sorting device “promises to ...

Black plastics pose an identification problem for sorting machines at recycling facilities, as the sensors can't see them. Canon has developed a system that users lasers and tracking tech to identify ...

Pellenc ST says it has provided optical sorting devices that are helping Eslava Plásticos create clean streams of low-density (LDPE) plastid scrap at its plant in Quart de Poblet, Spain. Eslava ...

85% of discarded textiles were relegated to landfills or incineration plants in 2018, according to EPA. Credit: anna.spoka/Shutterstock. The creation of this database comes as a response to the ...

There’s an old English saying: Where there’s muck, there’s brass. Garbage isn’t sexy, but it can be lucrative, if handled correctly—especially when it comes to retrieving and reusing recyclable ...

Ellie is an award-winning investigative reporter who has written about retail issues at Which? for more than 12 years. How much thought do you give to your recycling bin? Probably not much, besides ...