recycling

One man’s dorm-moveout trash is another man’s treasure.

A Colorado company uses computer vision and robotics to improve recycling rates.

Through its textile recycling program, “SUAY it Forward”, they have diverted over 4 million pounds of textiles from landfills.

Joshua Costa is the owner of Sleep Well Recycling, a mattress recycling company based in Burlington, Vermont.

This week the DOE announced a $20 million grant to partially finance this new manufacturing facility. It’s part of an emerging EV battery reuse ecosystem.

The law’s aimed at improving a clothing recycling rate of only 15 percent.

E-waste is filled with old parts and precious metals that could be worth a lot to the right people.

Another example of how hard it can be to recycle polymers.

Single-stream recycling is convenient for consumers, but difficult for recycling companies. It requires a long and complicated process to make trash valuable.

We tour a materials recovery facility in California, where the stuff consumers toss into recycling bins is sorted.