Ask most Australians and they’ll say the waste recycling process in their country is good, but still a bit confusing. “I think the recycling goes well, but you hear reports that (in) some councils it ...

GeekWire is putting its own HQ2 in Pittsburgh for the month of February 2018 — reporting on the people, technologies and ideas transforming the industrial city into an innovation powerhouse. by Monica ...

A German startup called 1Less has developed a new closed-loop re-use system that could make the piles of waste plastic cups, lids, containers and cutlery at events a thing of the past. The ...

Digital facilities that track wastage down to the gram have brought about behavioural change among users ...

The data revolution is coming—and it’s coming to even the least glamorous, smelliest civic necessity: the streetside garbage bin. A handful of cities around the globe have deployed “smart” trash bins, ...

In busy areas of the city, information from smart bins can prevent rubbish accumulating. Advanced machine learning techniques can then be employed to further optimize the collection schedule by ...

KOCHI: In an attempt to marry technology with public hygiene, the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) is gearing up to install AI-powered “smart waste bins” along the Marine Drive walkway in ...

In the age of smart cities, even throwing an empty can into a bin is no inconsequential act. And when the local city council is looking at ways to safely exit three months of lockdown during a global ...

Internet-connected bins equipped with sensors are to be trialled in Warwickshire. Biffa Municipal, a commercial waste collection company, is working with partners including fleet safety experts Contel ...