A few years ago, Rebecca Hu-Thrams and her business partner, Areeb Malik, rented an attic from an ad on Craigslist to test out their robots using artificial technology.

Fast forward and their company, California-based Glacier, which develops robotic waste recycling systems, has its technology in more than 70 facilities in major cities across the country, including Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit.

Now Glacier has arrived in central Pennsylvania.

Earlier this month, Glacier installed its robotic recycling system at Penn Waste’s material recovery facility in Manchester Township, York County. The material recovery facility is where recycling bin material is sorted into categories — and where items that can’t be recycled are removed.

The robot at the Penn Waste facility is on a paper sort

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