COVID-19 Is Changing The Recycling Industry
Bella Breakdown The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is creating a shift in all industries, including recycling. More recycling facilities are utilizing robots to substitutes for human workers that are at risk of handing items possibly contaminated by COVID-19. One company is renting AI-enhanced robots to sort through trash to find items that need to be recycled. The founder and CEO of AMP Robotics, Matanya Horowitz, is developing more robotic systems to solve issues within the recycling industry. Horowitz goes into detail about the issues with robots being present in the recycling industry because every piece of material is different, making...
You Can Recycle Your Christmas Tree, Here’s How
Bella Breakdown With Christmas and the holidays well in the rearview mirror, hopefully you have already taken down your Christmas tree. If you haven’t, there’s still time to recycle it! Don’t worry, if you didn’t recycle it this year, you can start a new tradition in 2018. One of the easiest ways of all is to use a fake tree, or make your own cute tree. That way, you save money and save the hassle of cutting down and recycling a tree. Of the 33 million trees sold in North America every year, about 93% get recycled…you could increase...
