{"id":237715,"date":"2026-03-26T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237715\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:02:10","slug":"valley-recycling-company-gets-grant-to-improve-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237715\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley recycling company gets grant to improve technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, March 26, 2026 3:36PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Recycling company gets grant to improve technology across Valley\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A locally-owned recycling company received a state grant of more than $4 million to improve recycling technology across the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">With that money, Mid-Valley Recycle will be able to purchase six AI-powered robots to help sort recyclable materials from curbside and drop-off collection programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There&#8217;s also funding for a brand new commercial processing line that includes real-time data to monitor plant efficiency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Last year, Mid-Valley Recycling processed more than 130,000 tons of material across Fresno, Merced, Madera, Kings and Tulare Counties.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, March 26, 2026 3:36PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A locally-owned recycling company received a state grant of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[107242,107240,112,114,113,107241,1667,107239,294],"class_list":["post-237715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-107242","tag-ai-robots","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-mid-valley","tag-recycling","tag-technolgy","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}