Zhang said one possible direction is on-site disposal of food waste via composting in communities, which is economically and environmentally the most cost-efficient method. The approach could be an ...

Robots are taking over the dirty work of sorting through our trash and turning it into valuable resources. And not just any robots, but smart robots that use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify ...

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

The Washington-based Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), Washington recently completed a potential multimaterial 2D/3D sorting test method, “Evaluation of the 2D/3D Sorting Potential of a Whole ...

Tetra Pak, a Switzerland-based food processing and packaging solutions company, has announced a further round of investment to upgrade food and beverage carton sorting capabilities in the United ...

SHANGHAI — Since July 1, Mao Defeng and her husband have had to work from before dawn until well after sunset every day. Employed as sanitation workers by a residential complex in downtown Xuhui ...

China started small-scale trials of waste sorting in 2000, but landfill sites and unmanaged waste continued to encircle cities and local people protested plans to build more incinerators. Gradually, ...

Residents dispose of garbage at a waste-­sorting center in Fuzhou, Fujian province. [Photo/Xinhua] That view was endorsed by a recent report on people's environmental behavior, published by the top ...