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When you toss your newspaper, or plastic bottle or aluminum can in a mixed recycling bin, someone, somewhere, has to sort the material out so it can be turned into something new. The sorting is an ...

The Innosort Flake enables simultaneous flake sorting by color, polymer and transparency, the company says. Tomra Insight, the company’s cloud-based data monitoring platform, can be installed as a ...

Globally, 496 million tons of plastic are produced each year and 267 million tons are wasted — or about the weight of 3.4 million adult blue whales. A new study, published in Resources, Conservation, ...

Plastics are one of the most commonly used materials in the modern world. We use plastic for everything, clothes, electronics, medical supplies, and much more. But most plastic ends up in landfills ...

One of the fastest automatic plastic bottle sorting machines to be installed in the UK is undergoing final testing in Milton Keynes and should be up and running shortly. Shanks is currently ...

‘The #plastic_pollution is huge. Improper disposal means 150 Million tons in our oceans & microplastics in our bodies. Time to rethink our plastic habits for a healthier planet & ourselves. #AI ...

When it comes to plastics sorting, one of the most technologically advanced companies is the U.K.’s Eco Plastics Ltd., based in Hemswell, in the county of Lincolnshire. The company specializes in ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taichung-based FNG Co. has developed a plastic bottle recycling machine with an AI system that sorts bottles by color and type before processing, reducing transport emissions ...