A plastic-eating robot shark is being deployed into London’s Canary Wharf in a bid to reduce water pollution in the area. Ahead of Global Recycling Day on March 18, the WasteShark can collect up to ...

A robotic shark that gobbles up plastic waste has been let loose in London's docklands, to clean up the water by removing the equivalent of more than 22,700 plastic bottles per day, according to its ...

Richard Hardiman first came up with the idea for a water-cleaning robot after seeing two men struggle to catch rubbish from their boat in his home city of Cape Town, South Africa. “They were cleaning ...

A robotics system will be installed at Paper Rounds’ materials recovery facility (MRF) to trial automation technology used to improve the efficiency of plastics sorting. The system characterises ...

A robot fish called "Robo-Fish" has been created after winning a robotics contest at the University of Surrey, as reported by Interesting Engineering. Robotic fishes swim in a water glass tank ...

Venice’s famous canals are facing a growing pollution problem. Once plastic litter ends up in the water, it becomes incredibly difficult to remove. Why is this plastic so dangerous, and what can be ...

MORNINGSIDE resident Ashling McCarthy, founder of education non-profit, I Learn to Live – Ngifundela Ukuphila, encourages society to invest in educational opportunities for all children, including ...

Plastics are bad, m’kay, and a lot of the world is pretty god-awful at reducing, re-using and recycling. Single-use plastics are among the worst environmental evils out there, and Zume is leaping to ...