BOSTON–Who knew a warehouse full of garbage and conveyor belts could be so high-tech? Last Thursday, I had the chance to tour a single-stream recycling center here, where a suite of specialized ...

Recycling is something many of us take for granted, assuming what we throw in the bin ends up getting recycled properly. But current curbside systems aren’t particularly effective, especially if the ...

In reality, an entire fleet of garbage trucks is crisscrossing the city, whisking away waste and keeping communities ...

The SOTOP Recycling team, consisting of Manuel Maeder, Benjamin Krause, and Nadina Maeder, have developed an innovative automated injection molding machine that uses waste plastic to create new ...

Next Generation Recycling Machines Inc. (NGR) relocated its customer service and testing center to a larger facility in Atlanta to showcase more machinery and be closer to the international airport.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person feeding a plastic water bottle into a reverse vending machine. - frantic00/Shutterstock If you've been to the supermarket ...

An Indonesian sanitation worker built a "trash ATM" that pays cash for plastic bottles. Could this be the future of local ...