More than 600,000 households in Virginia now can recycle clear and dry paper cups along with other accepted curbside items.
TFC Recycling, a Chesapeake, Virginia-based residential recycling company, has announced it will use new artificial intelligence optical sorting technology to be able to add paper cups to its residential recycling programs.
According to a report from WAVY, the sorting equipment and paper cup recycling initiative was made possible through a grant from the Falls Church, Virginia-based Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI) and NextGen Consortium, a multiyear consortium managed by New York-based Closed Loop Partners that addresses single-use foodservice packaging…