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Evergreen is not just a company: it's a movement towards a landfill-free future. Our AI-guided robotics from @amp robotics accelerate sorting for recycling, separating bottles by color, thereby increasing the quality of the rPET produced. Together, let's redefine waste and contribute to a sustainable circular economy. #WasteFreeFuture #AIRecycling #EvergreenTogether To learn more, here’s an article: https://lnkd.in/giwnrga5

Recycleye is working together with Panda Ireland to revolutionise the way we #recycle. ♻️ Their facility in Dublin repurposes and remanufactures recycling from ~400,000 homes across the region, developing new products such as paper, plastics, aluminium and steel. They deliver an AI-powered vision system that categorises the waste and a robot arm that physically sorts the waste. Recycleye robotics is driven by Recycleye vision, using ground-breaking AI that is AS accurate as the human eye. This application of robotics is the first of its kind in Ireland 🇮🇪 Discover more about how Recycleye is helping meet #sustainability goals for the resources and waste management sector here 🔗 https://bit.ly/40iwg57 🎤 Tom Harrison | Victor Dewulf | Liam Dunne 🎥: Content With Purpose #WorldBeyondWaste #Waste #WasteIndustry #CircularEconomy #Recycling #ResourcesManagement

Tri-County Recycling and Solid Waste has introduced three robots to its operations, with a fourth coming this year. Due to the sheer amount of materials Tri-County takes in, the robots have helped increase productivity.  Up until late last year, about 8-9% of all material collected, ended up in the landfill (the national residual rate average among recycling centers is about 25%), but the robots will help lower that number even more.

AI bots can sort 80 pieces of recyclable material a minute, compared to humans who can sort out 50 to 80 pieces a minute. Optical sorters blow both human workers and AI-powered bots out of the water and are able to sort up to 1,000 pieces of recycled trash a minute,

𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 ♻️ 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬 🤖 Does the system also pay for itself through material recovery? New financing model for recycling robots: The Can Manufacturers Institute is offering a new financing model for recycling robots. The system from Caglia Environmental in California was financed with a single application, including the robot, Ardagh Metal Packaging and Crown Holdings, Inc. are two members of the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and are funding a two-year lease for an EverestLabs.AI robot as Robotics 24/7, Ardagh said. 👉More than 1 million used beverage containers (UBCs) per year 👉 Caglia will share 50% of all UBC revenue with CMI Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eB6nGGCc I see two reasons right here why we should expand this in a big way. For one, it's sustainable. Raw materials are finite and we can no longer afford to carelessly throw away increasingly expensive raw materials. Secondly, the impact on the environment. After all, rubbish doesn't disappear just because we throw it in the bin. Unfortunately, when I look around me, this happens far too little. Too many people throw their rubbish directly into the environment everywhere. If we see waste as a raw material, we will also reduce the amount of waste and thus the impact on the environment Credit to: Aaron Prather 👍 f you don't want to miss any more posts from me about robotics and automation, 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 Ulrich M.   and activate the 𝓑𝓮𝓵𝓵🔔. Best Regards Uli Möller #automation #robotics #engineering #innovation #recyling Inspired by: Lukas M. Ziegler, Enzo Wälchli, Billy Cogum 👍👍👍

There is real payback for automation in your trash line is based on separating plastic from cardboard in your compactor bails. The price per bail varies from $20-$200. Clean bails of plastic, cardboard or color cardboard individually bring in the most recycling ♻️ dollars. Automate your trash line Sortation to create maximum recycling revenue.

Old paradigm: Make 100,000s of something with high speed automation and then spend weeks delivering it all over the planet in huge containers, cargo ships, and trucks. Then the packaging ends up in a landfill or piles up for recycling. New paradigm: Make to demand near point of use and deliver it by drone a short time later. Minimal reusable containers for packaging. Unit costs based upon local efficiency at production line are meaningless nonsense.

[From the Industry] Veolia has unveiled a new robotic arm at its Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) to optimise operations and make recycling more effective. The UK resource management company and AI robotics business Recycleye have installed an AI-driven robotic arm that Veolia said is as “accurate as the human eye”. The robot is being used at Veolia Southwark IWMF to pick out paper, card, mixed plastics and beverage cartons, which often contain some aluminium layers, from the aluminium line leaving just pure aluminium items for recycling. The robot features a camera, a 6-axis robotic arm, a pneumatics system and a compute box. It “picks” the items using compressed air and a silicon gripper. Once the item is secured, the robot twists to face the correct sorting bin location and blows the item off the gripper and into the bin. The robot will pick between 35 and 50 items per minute, Veolia said. As the objects pass along the belt, they are scanned and recorded, and the data is uploaded to the cloud. #circulareconomy #sustainability #greentech #innovation #AI

Aluminum is currently the most valuable post-consumer recycled (PCR) material, and at the Back of the Yards facility operated by LRS, RecycleOS is enhancing aluminum recovery from the final sorting line. With funding support from Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) members, Ardagh Metal Packaging and Crown Holdings, Inc., our robotic system is now capturing over a million individual #aluminum beverage cans at the facility annually. Check out this MSN article to learn more! #AI #robotics

Recyclers are having significant challenges sourcing and verifying high-quality bales of recycled material. Frequently forced to purchase lower-cost bales filled with contaminants, recyclers are facing issues like rising processing expenses and frequent equipment downtime. EverestLabs #AI and #robotics can be strategically deployed across your facility to address these feedstock challenges. Check out this blog to learn how!