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Plastic waste is one of the biggest global problems right now, with more than 400 million tons generated each year and only 9 ...

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 ...

The adoption of any new policies such as bottle bills, reuse systems, EPR or certain food packaging bans could reduce disposal by 10% to 20% by 2040. Such changes could influence new jobs and ...

The Innosort Flake enables simultaneous flake sorting by color, polymer and transparency, the company says. Tomra Insight, the company’s cloud-based data monitoring platform, can be installed as a ...

Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more efficient? A review article by ...

After dry mixed recycling is tipped off collection vehicles, it is loaded onto conveyor belts and enters the MRF - a large, ...

MOTALA, Sweden — A new plastics sorting facility inaugurated in Sweden on Wednesday is being billed as the largest of its kind, and one designed to double the amount of plastic packaging materials ...

Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can't put in your blue bin and find a home for them.