Robots are taking over the dirty work of sorting through our trash and turning it into valuable resources. And not just any robots, but smart robots that use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify ...

If you throw a plastic water bottle or yogurt cup in a recycling bin, it might not necessarily be recycled. Inside sprawling warehouses that the industry calls “MRFs” or materials recovery facilities, ...

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AMHERST — Recycling entrepreneurs Ian Goodine and Ethan Walko first met at UMass Amherst as freshman after joining a pickup soccer league. “We played a lot that year,” said Goodine, CEO of rStream, ...