To punish those who don't sort their garbage correctly, cameras are installed in garbage trucks and their images are analyzed by an AI. The proliferation of waste sorting bins in our towns and cities ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Oakland workers went around the city Wednesday, inspecting trash cans. These workers wanted to make sure Oaklanders were properly throwing away their garbage. This means ...

Chinese garbage collectors deliver residential waste to a new recycling trash depot, which proudly encourages residents to recycle, in Beijing on February 9, 2014. [Photo/IC] THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — Many people don’t sort their ...

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 ...

Batteries don’t go in the recycling or the trash. You need to take special steps to dispose of them, such as finding ...

Alphabet subsidiary X, which is the former Google X, focuses exclusively on ambitious “moonshots,” or applications of tech you might expect are science fiction, not a real product in development. Like ...

Germany-based Stadler Group, with North American offices in Colfax, North Carolina, has commissioned what the company describes as the world’s first fully automated waste sorting plant in late 2015.

Automation and technology are beginning to gain ground in the difficult race to make the recycling of collected mixed plastics possible, according to a trio of panelists at Recycling Today’s Plastics ...

Vietnamese inventor Tran Van Truong creates automated waste-sorting system to reclaim resources, reduce landfill waste, and revive polluted dump sites.

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 ...