This trash can that sorts your refuse will soon be in use in Pittsburgh. Increasingly, when you find a trash can in a public place it has at least two openings—one for trash and one for recyclables.

ASU is enhancing its efforts to improve landfill diversion with a new type of waste-sorting system installed last week. With the amount of foot traffic through the MU, it was necessary to find a way ...

Sorting trash into the right categories is pretty much a daily bother. Who hasn’t stood there in front of the two, three, five or more bins (depending on your area and country), pondering which bin it ...

Black plastics pose an identification problem for sorting machines at recycling facilities, as the sensors can't see them. Canon has developed a system that users lasers and tracking tech to identify ...

Ian Goodine and Ethan Walko, co-founders of the Somerville-based startup "r-STREAM," with their AuditPRO machine that uses AI to sort trash. We’ve been hearing a lot about the dangers of artificial ...

For all the advances made by robot companies like Boston Dynamics, we're still a long way from having robots living among humans and performing assistive tasks in our day-to-day lives. Google's parent ...

GeekWire is putting its own HQ2 in Pittsburgh for the month of February 2018 — reporting on the people, technologies and ideas transforming the industrial city into an innovation powerhouse. by Monica ...

Recology, which picks up garbage, recyclables and yard waste in parts of Sonoma, Marin, Napa and Solano counties, on Thursday gave its first look at $35 million in upgrades to its sorting facility in ...

For the second time in 10 years, the city of Montgomery is trying to upend recycling, and they’re doing it without separate bins. Montgomery no longer asks residents to separate their trash and ...

The company studied data gathered by its Analyzer units deployed at recycling facilities throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia ...