Recycling efforts have surged in the last two decades and are expected to continue to grow as people and businesses “dig ...

Artificial intelligence and automation are impacting some jobs that humans don't always want to do. Robots are being used to sort through waste at recycling centers to combat worker shortages. In some ...

Sometimes, before dumping some outright trash, just turn your creativity on. Maybe it’s time to make something really ...

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Says Hemmer, “We make living in cities and communities possible. The work that we do every day is to pick up your materials at your curb or at the back of your store or industrial property—and as a ...

You dutifully toss your soda cans and last week’s newspaper in the bin and wheel it out to the curb every other week. But are you recycling right? Seattle has some of the highest recycling rates in ...

Approximately 80 percent of the materials used to build a garbage truck could be replaced with recycled materials and ...

San Antonio residents are enthusiastic recyclers. Last year 72,600 tons of material was recycled, up from 49,700 tons in 2005. They’re also expected to recycle 17 percent of recyclable material this ...

Conventional PCB manufacturing—which is wasteful, energy intensive, and harmful to the environment—increasingly calls for electronics recycling to reduce material waste and energy requirements through ...

Glass bottles are heavy and must travel to Atlanta to be recycled from Kentucky, but reusing them can reduce the effect on the environment. Bigstock Have you ever wondered what happens to the plastic ...