The Singapore-based Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) has issued two playbooks designed to boost the collection and sorting of plastic packaging for recycling, including one that addresses the role ...

The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For ...

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

Helsinki-based ZenRobotics Ltd. has announced a ZenRobotics Recycler waste sorting system has been operational at Carl F AB in Malmoe, Sweden, since February 2017. The company says this is the first ...

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has awarded $15 million in grants to municipalities across the state to build up investments in local and regional waste management ...

The collection center in Jakarta is capable of processing 8-10 tons of plastic waste per day with waste banks as the main ...

With China’s rapid economic growth and rising living standards, municipal solid waste has become a significant concern for Chinese cities that saw substantial increase in solid waste generation rates.

Marketed as a virtual assistant for waste sorting, the Junker app helps consumers solve the everyday dilemma: ‘Can I recycle this?’ FoodNavigator asks co-founder Noemi De Santis how the start-up is ...

Xiamen, China — While China's move to stop imports of scrap plastics has altered global trade flows and upended the recycling industry, there's a shift going on within the country that may be just as ...