Over the years, while everyone sees our devices improve, no one really notices the innovations in recycling technology that allow us to conserve the Earth’s limited resources. By recycling, we can make use out of the items that we throw away every day, and with each improvement to recycling technology, we can reuse items more efficiently and make better things out of our waste.

Chemical Recycling

While recycling does allow facilities to make use of our waste, the materials that recycling facilities produce do not have the best quality. Because of that, recycling centers are now using different techniques such as pyrolysis and gasification to extract materials chemically, resulting in high-quality materials that can be used in new products to save the Earth’s resources.

3-D Printing in Recycling

3-D printing allows for tons of things to be easily built just by having plastic and a machine. So when tons of plastic waste goes into recycling centers every day, it seems like a no-brainer to use those recycled materials and turn them into new creations using 3-D printers. Using these, we no longer need as many new materials, helping save resources, and we are able to create more 3-D printed products while still having less waste.

AI in Recycling

When recycling electronic waste, or e-waste, separating materials is a problem, leading to e-waste recycling being very inefficient. However, newer technologies have used robotics and AI to extract materials from e-waste, which makes the process much more efficient and helpful. At ReCharged, we encourage people to recycle their e-waste properly and make sure it gets treated correctly rather than having e-waste sit in a landfill and destroy the environment. If we want to help the environment and save the Earth’s resources, we have to recycle properly and keep as much waste as possible out of landfills.