COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Supporters of single-use plastic bag bans implemented or being discussed across South Carolina believe limiting plastics would decrease litter and waste. However, reducing ...

Black plastics pose an identification problem for sorting machines at recycling facilities, as the sensors can't see them. Canon has developed a system that users lasers and tracking tech to identify ...

Canon has announced its entry into the recycling system market with the launch of its new plastic sorting equipment with innovative material identification technology. The equipment applies Raman ...

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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 ...

“the first of its kind in the UK”. The Waste and Resources Action Programme is taking a keen interest in the project and is itself looking at ways to increase the expansion of bottle sorting capacity ...

Gleisdorf, Austria-based Redwave has supplied automated sorting equipment to a plastics recycling plant operated by recycling firm Saubermacher Dienstleistungs AG. The plant in Graz, Austria, has ...

If you live in the United States, your city or town probably has a curbside recycling program that accepts at least a few types of plastics. One form of plastic you should never drop into your colored ...