With Americans recycling more and more every day, many municipalities have begun using advanced, multimillion-dollar machines to sort through the deluge of soup cans, beer bottles and newspapers.

CNET's Martin LaMonica follows recycling waste on the next step of its life: a high-tech, single-stream recycling center where machines do the bulk of the heavy lifting. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

Sorting trash into the right categories is pretty much a daily bother. Who hasn’t stood there in front of the two, three, five or more bins (depending on your area and country), pondering which bin it ...

The Ubuntu-Blox machine, which operates by human power, sits beside a home made from the blocks it produces. A Wylie inventor has developed a machine that transforms trash into homes for the needy in ...

Worcester requires people put their trash in the yellow trash bags that the vending machine and other local retailers sell. If people don’t use the bags, garbage collection workers won’t pick up their ...

WORCESTER — The city's new 311 Customer Service Center in the Main South neighborhood features a new idea meant to address a hot-button issue in the city: access to yellow trash bags. The customer ...

Googly-eyed trash collecting machine Mr. Trash Wheel cleans up Baltimore's Inner Harbor, leading other cities to follow suit. (Good News Network/CNET) A googly-eyed trash collecting machine is ...