There are only a few truly ancient engineered materials, and among the oldest is paper. Traditionally, paper is flat and can be bent into shapes. However, paper can be molded into for example packing ...

Efforts to collect and sort paper coffee cups for recycling could boost an already high paper recycling rate in the U.S. Florida-based J&J Green Paper is among the companies offering products designed ...

If you’ve ever stayed up late watching cable TV, you’ve probably seen an ad for desktop scanners that promise to organize your clutter and help you cut down on paper. I’ve seen them so many times I ...

Cal-Waste added five optical sorters in its 2020 MRF upgrade: three optical sorters on its fiber line and two on its container line. For material recovery facility (MRF) operators, fiber tends to make ...

Ooh, I love a good waste management rumor. They tend to be so juicy, don’t you think? Your letter gave me a good excuse to take another look at our old friend single-stream recycling, and I can verify ...

It can be a pain for workers to sort recycling, both because of the safety and the sheer monotony of it. But how do you get robots to do the job when they can't always tell the difference between a ...

On the concrete floor of Inland Empire Paper sat a 1,500-pound bale of waste paper ready to be recycled into new paper. The bale came from a modern single-stream recycling system that takes mixed-up ...