Doğa PET, a new recycling venture by Doğa Holding, has partnered with Germany-based Tomra Recycling to use its sensor-based sorting solutions to produce polyethylene terephthalate (PET) flakes and ...

Sensor-based sorting technology has secured a firm place in higher volume e-scrap shredding operations. The most popular application by far is the recovery of a nonferrous concentrate on the eddy ...

Sulayr Recycling has strengthened its transparent-to-transparent, tray-to-tray PET recycling operations by integrating ...

The global sensor-based sorting market is gaining momentum, offering a rare growth opportunity in a volatile economy. According to Data Intelo, the market ...

It can be a pain for workers to sort recycling, both because of the safety and the sheer monotony of it. But how do you get robots to do the job when they can't always tell the difference between a ...

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Researchers from MIT and Yale University ...

RoCycle is, naturally, short for “recycling robot,” the latest offering out of MIT’s CSAIL lab. The pick and place ‘bot utilizes a unique combination of sensors to help distinguish the material ...

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 ...

Greasy pizza box, takeaway coffee cup, plastic yogurt pot—are they trash or recycling? What can and can’t be recycled is often confusing, not least because the answer depends on the facilities at your ...

Exploring the sorting process of recycling can help Northwest Indiana residents better understand the parameters of recycling right. One common myth is that all recyclables end up in landfills ...

First off, the robots can help sort the plastic that’s set aside for recycling. Second, the chemicals can help break down the plastics into valuable raw materials. The University at Buffalo in New ...

The recovery of metals from flows of waste or raw material is becoming increasingly important because raw materials are becoming rarer and the costs of waste disposal continue to rise. Governments are ...