Researchers have developed a plant-sorting machine that uses computer vision and machine learning to inspect and grade harvested strawberry plants and then mechanically sort them by quality -- tasks ...

Germany-based Stadler Group, with North American offices in Colfax, North Carolina, has commissioned what the company describes as the world’s first fully automated waste sorting plant in late 2015.

Recycling is hard. Most Americans don’t know what should go into their recycling bins - and when they guess, they often guess wrong and gum up the works of recycling facilities in the process. This ...

Stadler Anlagenbau GmbH, a Germany-based maker of sorting systems and equipment, has designed and installed a new 50,000-square-meter mechanical waste sorting plant that will serve the island of Ibiza ...

Cities around the world separate recyclable waste from other trash at material recovery facilities, but operators often have little real-time insight as to what’s passing through their plants. Now, a ...

1. Variation in species pools can affect plant diversity, but it remains unclear whether the magnitude of the response varies because of resource availability, community invasibility or other ...