Artificial intelligence, already common in MRFs, could have potential upstream. Los Angeles is seeing early success with an organics recycling chatbot and Oscar Sort is scaling its customer base for ...

Casella and some other recycling operators say they could clean and sort glass, but the report says trucking the heavy material more than 200 miles is not economically feasible, and there’s no ...

EVERETT — Disruption in the local glass recycling industry hasn’t affected Snohomish County — yet. On Nov. 7, Ardagh Glass Packing’s plant in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood ...

Originally published on TriplePundit Someone once discovered that certain kinds of sand, melted at a high temperature, can become glass. That initial discovery opened the window for continuing ...

Deffenbaugh Industries, which used to provide recycling in the metro, accepted glass up until the early 2000s. Then the company stopped accepting it, leaving residents with few options besides ...

Last fall, MSU won the recycling bowl by collecting 6,090 pounds of glass from university and local community members. Maria Timberlake, an Office of Sustainability intern and senior natural resource ...

The City of Tacoma announced on Sept. 24 that glass would stop being recycled. It said the company that processes their glass can no longer do so, due to low demand.

Recycling glass offers significant environmental benefits, including saving around 42 kWh of electricity, 20 gallons of oil, 1.5 cubic meters of landfill space, and preventing the release of 3.5 ...

Akron's glass recycling program is undergoing some changes this week. In a Thursday news release, the city announced that two current glass recycling sites are being eliminated and three new bin ...

Glass recycling is back in Seattle after a nearly year-long hiatus. Bottled-beverage drinkers kept putting their empties in recycling bins, but the recycling loop shattered after the region’s ...

Seattle-based recycling company Ridwell will expand its glass pick-up services in South Puget Sound, including the Olympia area. Sign-ups for biweekly services open Thursday, the company CEO said ...

St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer announced plans to end alley recycling on May 15, just one day before an EF3 tornado hit St. Louis. The city has since paused the program until June 30 to save resources ...