the country, and consumers of secondary commodities haven’t relaxed their standards for quality products, which makes sorting at the material recovery facility (MRF) level an increasingly integral ...

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 ...

COMPASS identifies and removes stones, sticks, plastic, metal and extraneous vegetable matter, as well as discolored or ...

(MENAFN- GetNews) Rice is one of the most important staple foods in the world, and ensuring its quality is critical for both consumer satisfaction and market demand. Traditional methods of rice ...

Germany's Steinert Group has launched a technology to help sort black plastic for recycling. The UniSort BlackEye technology aims to overcome the difficulty that most optical sorting systems have with ...

Every weekday at 7 a.m., a huge conveyor belt rumbles to life inside Action Environmental Services’ waste transfer and sorting facility at Hunts Point in the Bronx. Workers stand alongside, picking ...

In a recent review article published in the journal Light: Science & Applications, researchers have emphasized the pivotal role of optical methods in manipulating and sorting microscopic and ...

When you toss your newspaper, or plastic bottle or aluminum can in a mixed recycling bin, someone, somewhere, has to sort the material out so it can be turned into something new. The sorting is an ...

ASU is enhancing its efforts to improve landfill diversion with a new type of waste-sorting system installed last week. With the amount of foot traffic through the MU, it was necessary to find a way ...

Vietnamese inventor Tran Van Truong creates automated waste-sorting system to reclaim resources, reduce landfill waste, and revive polluted dump sites. Faced with mounting domestic waste and outdated ...

The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For ...