LEWISTON, N.Y. — The way you recycle could be changing drastically. “This is truly a paradigm shift in recycling as we know it,” Dawn Timm, Niagara …
The Trash Crash
Every time you recycle a Coke bottle or throw a banana peel away, you’re entering a market of buyers, sellers, and fierce competition. Today on the …
You have lots of questions about recycling. We have answers
We’ve gotten dozens of SoundQ’s questions about one topic: recycling. So we’re re-running this archive episode with loads of answers, including how …
Barnabi: Abandoning recycling will cost us in the long run
And as if eliminating local recycling of glass and plastic were not enough, recycling facilities at Gypsy Hill Park are completely closed also now.
Recycling Robot Learns Through System of Touch
Every year, trash companies sift through an estimated 68 million tons of recycling, which is the weight equivalent of more than 30 million cars.
Textiles and Apparel Recycling campaign seeks to improve textile sustainability on campus
The Textiles and Apparel Recycling campaign began last semester to research textile recycling and eventually establish an on-campus recycling …
Recycling robot can sort paper and plastic by touch
It can be a pain for workers to sort recycling, both because of the safety and the sheer monotony of it. But how do you get robots to do the job when …
MIT robot sorts recycling and trash by touch
Researchers from MIT and Yale University have devised a method to use robots to pick out paper, plastic, and glass as a way to sort recycling.
This robot can sort recycling by giving it a squeeze
Greasy pizza box, takeaway coffee cup, plastic yogurt pot—are they trash or recycling? What can and can’t be recycled is often confusing, not least …
Grabby MIT robot sorts recycling by squeezing it
Sorting recycling can be a hellish task. Humans stand around a conveyor belt, grabbing plastic, paper and metal and putting it in its proper place.