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AI and deep learning boost recycling efficiency 60% as cities adopt smart waste systems for circular economy transformation ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Thanks to a grant, Scott County is collecting more polypropylene, a type of plastic used to package many everyday-use items. Before the grant, these items were picked up by ...

ALBANY — Frank Zeoli can’t believe some of the things people try to recycle. Plastic wrap. Children’s toys. Entire lamps. For all the efforts to promote the importance of recycling, there’s a dearth ...

6. The 'Seedling' indicates the packaging it is stamped on is industrially compostable. Compostable plastics which carry this symbol should be recycled with garden waste. 7. The 'Green Dot' symbol ...

Addressing plastic pollution isn’t easy, especially when it comes to electronics plastics, but Synergy Electronics Recycling (SER), an end-of-life electronics recycler headquartered in Madison, North ...

Opposition to plastics recycling innovation is still a problem. A couple of years ago, I wrote a column about what was then a new roadblock on its path to plastics circularity: public opposition to ...

MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ—The Middlesex County Division of Solid Waste Management is adopting a new, simplified approach to plastic recycling in line with updated State guidelines. Residents can now ...