You may have heard that recycling plastic grocery bags can jam up machinery, but what might not be as well known is that ...

At Stony Brook University, researchers are developing an AI-assisted system to analyze and characterize contaminated items in ...

Plastics remain at the forefront of the recycling discussion. It is also a recycling challenge because of the complex sorting process, material contamination, the different compositions of plastics, ...

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

Today, the United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee passed H.R. 2149, a package that includes the ...