Cal-Waste added five optical sorters in its 2020 MRF upgrade: three optical sorters on its fiber line and two on its container line. For material recovery facility (MRF) operators, fiber tends to make ...

While optical sorters commonly are used to sort paper in material recovery facilities (MRFs) that handle single-stream commercial material, their use on residential fiber sort lines is increasing for ...

In a recent review article published in the journal Light: Science & Applications, researchers have emphasized the pivotal role of optical methods in manipulating and sorting microscopic and ...

In microfluidics, flow is predominantly laminar, creating challenges in the design of actuators such as mixers and sorters. The extremely low Reynolds numbers associated with microfluidic flows (for ...

The technique may have the ability to sort matter from the scale of macromolecules all the way up to large cells. In addition to the technical advantages of optical sorting and fractionation, the ...

A paper fibre sort facility in Hartlepool, being developed by Ward Recycling Ltd of Middlesbrough, is expected to open shortly. Paper recycling company Ward Recycling Ltd ceased trading last February ...