SEATTLE — The Recology King County Material Recovery Facility in south Seattle is embracing artificial intelligence-equipped robots to enhance its recycling process. Each weekday, the facility ...

As Americans continuously upgrade their TVs for newer models and toss their old ones, it creates a serious problem: too many of them are ending up in recycling facilities, leaving processors ...

Entering Recology’s recycling facility in South Seattle stuns your senses. The din from heavy machinery is continuous. While recycled goods are meant to be clean from food waste, your nose quickly ...

Last week, TechCrunch paid a visit to Apple's Austin, Texas, manufacturing facilities. Since 2013, the company has built its Mac Pro desktop about 20 minutes north of downtown. The 400,000-square-foot ...

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 ...

E-waste has become a global problem. Unfortunately, the majority of discarded used technology, known as e-waste, is dumped or processed in unsafe conditions. Around 78% of electronic products aren’t ...

The future of recycling is here, and of course, it involves robots and artificial intelligence. Rebecca Hu, the co-founder of the robotics company Glacier, creates robots that help recycling plants ...

The Ireland-based Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment is helping install a Recycleye and Fanuc robot at a Panda MRF in Dublin. Officials from ACE Ireland, Panda and the Irish government ...

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