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Winston-Salem police are planning to add a fourth police district to deal with growth in the downtown area.

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The Redlands men's water polo team came away with a split Saturday during the Gary Troyer Tournament as they held off Johns Hopkins University 14-12.

The Redlands men picked up their second win of 2021 Thursday as they beat Ottawa University (AZ) to wrap up their doubleheader at the Thompson Aquatic Center.

With their new certification, Compology joins 4,000 certified B Corps throughout 74 nations.

Compology Announces Clean and Green City Grants Initiative Compology to provide 25 cities with free AI-powered waste metering technology to help meet sustainability goals and reduce spending May 26, 2021 SAN FRANCISCO  —  Compology, the leading company devoted to sustainability through waste metering, today announced their Clean and Green grants initiative. The grants will be offered to 25 municipalities of any size throughout the United States and provide cities with Compology’s te...

– The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) With more and more apartment dwellers working from home, there is a very real and very expensive impact for property management companies: more trash. As residents rely on e-commerce for everything from groceries to furniture, all that packaging has to go somewhere. And someone has to pay for it. According to the National Apartment Association (NAA), contamination fees (resulting when recyclables are not separated) are up 10%-12% and can be as much ...

Company using trash-tracking technology to cut down on waste and last updated 2020-12-31 15:00:50-05 Dumpster diving has gone high-tech. “We take pictures three to five times a day and then use artificial intelligence to automatically process those images to determine a couple key data points,” said Jason Gates of Compology, a waste and recycling metering company. Gates said when China stopped buying recycling materials from the U.S. in 2018, it forced American business to develop a r...

McDonald’s is one of a growing number of businesses that are installing cameras in dumpsters to give more intel on their waste streams. This data can help each company recycle more efficiently and save money. The idea to place cameras inside dumpsters to track waste comes from Jason Gates, CEO of the San Francisco-based start-up Compology . Since 2013, Compology has used artificial intelligence to process more than 80 million photos from 162,000 trash-monitoring cameras. The system has help...