recycling

Textile waste, the industry on alert: "Without aid, only incineration is left"

Unless adequate incentives and policies are put in place, companies that collect and sort used clothing risk collapse. This is the warning issued by EuRIC, the European association of recyclers...

Tomra separates food-grade plastic from non-food-grade plastic with deep learning

* from Koblenz   An intelligence capable of making decisions within milliseconds, based on information learned gradually over time, improving day by day the ability to distinguish a waste. Th...

Startup: umbrellas and eyeglasses, a second life for cigarette butts

Re-Cig is a company that operates in seventeen of Italy’s twenty regions for the collection and recovery of cigarette stubs. Based in Rovereto (Trento), at the Progetto Manifattura hub, Re-Cig...

Startup, Kubik: plastic recycling for low-cost and low-carbon construction

Kenyan startup Kubik transforms difficult-to-recycle plastic waste into low-cost and low-carbon-emission construction materials for building long-lasting and less polluting structures. From sch...