A municipal worker managing waste collection in a mid-sized city once mentioned something interesting during a casual conversation. He said the biggest challenge wasn't getting people to recycle. It was getting people to recycle correctly. Plastic bottles ended up mixed with general trash. Cans got tossed into paper bins. Sorting facilities spent more time fixing mistakes than processing actual...

Airports and malls handle huge crowds every single day, and with those constant crowds comes an endless, nonstop stream of bottles and cans. Have you ever walked past a public bin so packed full with recyclables that half of them ended up on the floor instead? A Smart Recycling Machine solves that problem by making recycling easier for the people actually using the space. That ease of use...