A new method for identifying types of plastics, built on advanced spectral imaging and machine learning, could make recycling ...

About 775 tons of trash arrive at Alachua County’s Leveda Brown Environmental Park & Transfer Station every day. Electronic ...

Textiles—from sarees and denim to uniforms and household fabrics—constitute a significant share of urban waste but have traditionally lacked structured recovery systems.

The transition toward a circular economy relies heavily on the mechanical capability to process diverse waste streams into ...

As more fleets look to modernize responsibly, the focus is shifting from whether AI belongs in waste operations to how ...

A nanowire diode with a built-in electron trap senses, denoises, and classifies images without separate processing hardware, mimicking the retina and opening a path to smarter edge computing.

Scrap cable and wire — previously treated as low-priority waste streams — now represent a commercially significant source of refined copper, provided that the separation process achieves sufficient ...

State environmental regulators will also fine the Energy Department up to $16 million for exceeding safe groundwater standards near the nuclear lab. By Alicia Inez Guzmán Alicia Inez Guzmán reports on ...

Abstract: Waste generation is a result of population growth, urban expansion, and economic progress. By 2050, global waste production is projected to increase by 70% from 2016 (approximately 2.01 ...