First, the mixed recyclables are shredded and crushed into smaller fragments, enabling more effective separation. The mixed fragments pass over rotating screens that remove cardboard and paper, ...

Perhaps fittingly, state lawmakers are recycling proposals if not actual legislation from last year as they address how to encourage the recycling of more packaging and reduce the amount of waste ...

A new study uses advanced imaging technology to identify materials in municipal solid waste that can be separated for ...

The company works with plastics that are hard for standard mechanical recycling to handle, removing them from the wastestream ...

Tailored programs and systems that consider human habits can help boost recycling rates, said design engineers and landfill ...

The global impact is massive. Europe alone generates between 7 and 9 million tons of aluminum waste from cars each year.

The Foodservice Packaging Institute updated its toolkit to help create recycling education campaigns. Stakeholders underscore ...

In the U.S., about 26-27 million tons of plastic were sent to landfills in 2018 and 2019, according to the EPA.

Two nuclear startups' announcements of progress on turning radioactive waste into usable fuel for electricity show the idea ...