The Kent County Department of Public Works in Michigan is installing an AMP ONE municipal solid waste sorting system at its Waste-to-Energy Facility in Grand Rapids, deploying computer vision and pneumatic sortation from Colorado-based AMP to pull...
The City of Porvoo, Finland, is putting an autonomous electric street-sweeping robot into service in early August 2026, cleaning the pedestrian and paved areas of Porvoo Market Square and the riverside district, mainly overnight. The machine,...
Dublin City Council is preparing a proposal to replace sections of its 3,500-strong public bin fleet with solar-powered Bigbelly compactors. The locked, fob-accessed units are intended to stop people tearing open bins and rubbish bags while...
Rancho Cordova, a Sacramento County city of roughly 85,000 residents, has begun using artificial intelligence to scan for municipal code violations, deploying vehicle-mounted cameras from City Detect that flag an average of 1,200 potential issues...
London based Greyparrot has raised $27 million (£20 million, €23 million) in Series B funding led by technology investor Omar Mir, the company announced on 28 July 2026, bringing its total funding to $60 million and following a milestone in which...
The city of Cagnes-sur-Mer, the second-largest commune in the Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur, installed its first solar-powered compacting smart bin on 7 July 2026, opening a summer trial along its Mediterranean seafront. Mayor Bryan Masson...
On 1 July 2026, SUEZ and the Préfecture de Vaucluse inaugurated what they describe as the first industrial pilot in France dedicated to neutralising and recycling discarded nitrous oxide cylinders, at the SUEZ Ecopôle in Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue...
Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération (PMA), the 73-commune authority in France’s Doubs department, has rolled out a free digital sorting assistant called “Çavaoù?” to reduce the roughly 25% of sorting errors recorded in its yellow...
Türkiye activated its nationwide Deposit Return System (DOA) on July 1, 2026, introducing a one-Turkish-Lira refund per eligible plastic, glass, and aluminium beverage container across all 81 provinces and 973 districts of the country. The system,...
Waste management is changing fast and the most exciting solutions are coming from where technology, infrastructure and circularity meet. At Kurrant, we were delighted to take part in the ECOEMBES Open Call for waste management startups during...
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