Generally, you don't need to remove paper labels from metal or aluminum cans before you chuck them in the recycling bin. When ...

Recycling is good but recycling properly is even better. Here are a few dos and don'ts for being a better recycler in 2025.

Cities across the U.S. are implementing AI technology solutions to improve operations. Although their approaches are unique, ...

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, recycling isn’t only a way to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills: It helps conserve natural resources like timber and water, it ...

Most of us have been recycling for some time now, but the question on everyone’s lips is whether we are sorting out our recyclables in the right way. There is an art to recycle sorting that we ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence, already common in MRFs, could have potential further upstream. Los Angeles is seeing early success with an organics recycling chatbot and Oscar Sort is scaling its customer ...

But many more recycling programs are working well, experts say. The difference is partly based on which methods are being used for collection and processing. Are you sorting paper from plastic […] ...

Waste Management, which gets a much greater volume of plastic, uses machines to sort all plastics, according to Ketchum. MRFs also depend on customers to help them keep costs down.

This January 2019 photo provided by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries shows plastic materials sorted from a residential recycling stream at a material recovery facility in Austin, Texas ...