Exploring the sorting process of recycling can help Northwest Indiana residents better understand the parameters of recycling right. One common myth is that all recyclables end up in landfills ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

Single-sort recycling is coming to Mankato, eventually. Neither the city of Mankato nor its hauler, Waste Management, is saying much about their months-long negotiations over the recycling changes.

When it comes to recycling, the easier it is, the more people will do it. That's the upshot of Maple Grove's experiment with a new sort-free recycling service. After the city abandoned a pre-sorting ...

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 ...

WILLMAR — Time may be up for the nearly 30-year-old, multi-sort recycling program run by Kandiyohi County. Changes in technology and the economics of recycling mean that the county system cannot meet ...

I’ll admit it. When I was assigned a recycling story I kinda rolled my eyes. I mean everyone knows how to recycle, right? What was I going to learn that I didn’t already know? Boy, was I wrong. We ...

The fully automated circuit, including the shredder, eddy current and optical sorter, expanded Premier Surplus’ electronic scrap processing capacity by 300 percent versus manual sorting. Processing ...