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, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, TechCrunch paid a visit to Apple's Austin, Texas, manufacturing facilities. Since 2013, the company has built its Mac ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (COLORADO SPRINGS) — A local recycling center in Colorado Springs is using a robot to help sort waste items. It is becoming more ...

PITTSBURGH — With prices of everything going up, recycling helps keep prices down. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute are doing what they can by developing a robot that, in ...

The 400 refuse trucks that roll into Caglia Environmental’s Cedar Avenue Recycling and Transfer Station (CARTS) in Fresno, California, six days a week bring all manner of material. Crushed boxes, ...

Ever wondered what happens to the recyclables you carefully sort and place in your bin? For years, recycling has been a crucial part of our efforts to reduce waste and protect the environment. However ...

With the help of funding from The Recycling Partnership’s PET Recycling Coalition, Caglia Environmental, a Fresno, California-based recycling company, has installed an artificial intelligence-guided ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado Springs' first Artificial Intelligence (AI) guided recycling robot is now operating. It's being used at the Republic Services Recycling Center, which is located just ...

PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute gave Channel 11 an inside look at a new robot designed to tear apart old electronics like televisions. It takes just seconds for the robot to open up a ...

An automated recycling centre has helped push a council close to its household recycling target 10 years ahead of schedule. The government has asked local authorities to recycle 65% of municipal waste ...

A recycling robot recently moved into Shakopee. And it has a craving for cartons. A new robot at Dem-Con Companies' recycling facility is being used to detect and remove milk containers and other ...