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Penn Waste installs Glacier’s technology
Check out our coverage in Recycling Today and Waste360 We’re proud to announce our latest deployment with Waste Connections and Cox Enterprises at the Penn Waste Material Recovery Facility in York County, Pennsylvania (one of the largest single-stream MRFs in the Northeast!). Our robot will play an essential role in boosting the recovery of materials
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Glacier Included in Time “Best Inventions” 2025
When we finished installing our very first recycling robot, our founders Rebecca Hu-Thrams and Areeb Malik worked 20 hours straight through the weekend to get it running. When it finally came online, they grabbed a Sharpie and wrote Areeb’s cell phone number on the side — right above it, they scrawled:“Glacier Tech Support.” Today, that
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Fast Company: Most toothpaste tubes are recyclable. So why is nobody recycling them?
Writer Adele Peters answers this question for FastCompany in the article here. We’ve pasted the beginning of the story for your convenience, but you can read the rest of the article on their site! When you’re brushing your teeth and you’ve squeezed out the last bit of toothpaste, you probably toss the empty tube in
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WASTEDIVE: Amazon releases waste diversion metrics as part of larger sustainability plan
The company estimates it reached an 85% waste diversion rate in 2024, driven partly by organics diversion programs and ongoing data collection investments to refine recycling and waste programs. Read the article on WasteDive.com here
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TechCrunch: Glacier is training AI-powered recycling robots
The future of recycling is here, and of course, it involves robots and artificial intelligence. Hu said training the robots to spot materials was akin to teaching a toddler how to tell two things apart. “If you give them 100, 1,000, a million examples of aluminum cans, they get pretty good at pattern matching,” she