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 ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of it ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more ...

At the Boulder County Recycling Center in Colorado, two team members spend all day pulling items from a conveyor belt covered in junk collected from the area’s bins. One plucks out juice cartons and ...

German metal recycling company Gerhard Lang Recycling GmbH has installed an Autosort Pulse unit from Tomra Recycling, also based in Germany, at its metals sorting plant in southwestern Germany as part ...

Lakeshore Recycling Systems opened a $50 million materials recovery facility (MRF) last year called The Exchange to sort recyclables collected throughout Chicagoland. We pointed out the many benefits ...

The Swedish plastics sorting plant operator says up to 86 percent of its inbound materials are turned into “high-quality” ...

Most people approach aluminum recycling with the best of intentions and a surprisingly large number of misconceptions. The crushed can feels virtuous -- more efficient, taking up less space, easier on ...

Every day, around a thousand tons of recycled materials are dumped into towering piles at the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility (MRF). This state-of-the-art facility on Brooklyn’s waterfront ...

In a recent study published in Engineering, researchers from Kyoto University have unveiled a novel method for the efficient separation and recycling of rare-earth elements (REEs) from end-of-life ...