Waste generation represents an inevitable part of the manufacturing process. Considering that global production of municipal solid waste is expected to reach 3.40 billion tons by 2050 1, it poses a ...

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, ...

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 ...