
Where the UK's deposit return scheme fits in the circular economy
The UK's recently-announced plan for a 2025 deposit return scheme rollout raises key questions about the order in which policies are implemented.
Mikela Druckman • Jan 31, 2023
Our mission is to increase transparency and automation in recycling to unlock the financial value of waste and keep our planet clean.
Trusted by global leaders in waste management:
Our AI Waste Recognition System is deployed on moving conveyor belts at plants around the world. It’s enabling MRFs, PRFs and other reprocessors to monitor, audit and sort large waste flows at scale.
Measure material purity and recovery at scale. Exceed customer expectations by providing the high-quality product they expect, while having the data to back it up. Monitor the makeup of your waste streams to improve final material purity.
Manual spot sampling is expensive, and covers a small proportion of processed waste. AI can continuously monitor waste streams in real-time, unlocking full visibility into composition and purity at every stage.
Evaluate operational decisions, take proactive decisions and measure their impact on the bottom line using composition and value loss data.
1. Monitor
Our computer vision-powered monitoring unit characterises 100% of your waste streams at material, product and brand level.
2. Analyse
Continuous analysis of the data gathered by our monitoring unit gives you an accurate view of waste composition in real time.
3. Optimise
Improve operations and increase margins by using real time data to spot trends in your facility. Connect drops in quality to factors like infeed quality, throughput volume and machinery maintenance.
We work with industry leaders in resource and waste management around the world. Here’s what they think of our system:
"The scale at which this system is already being used in the market, and its hardware agnostic-approach, sets it apart. It has demonstrated tangible benefits to business operations, generating flows of data that the industry could previously only dream about. The potential of this type of technology is huge."
“The technology has the potential to give us great visibility into our operations and directly aligns with our vision of enabling a circular economy. We’re using the systems to provide real-time analysis of the purity of our PET output material.”
“We have implemented Greyparrot at one of our sorting partner plants to monitor the purity of the output material close to the bale press. Given the challenging environment, we were positively surprised by the classification outcome. The real-time dashboard gives us an unprecedented amount of insight into the quality of the produced output fractions.”
“Thanks to Greyparrot we are able to get composition analysis done in continuum and in real time. Therefore we are able to create metrics that we can use to inform our decision-making on how to optimise our [waste] selection and sorting processes.”
"Our new bond with Greyparrot leads us towards innovation and helps us tackle one of the world’s current global issues – the waste crisis."
"Greyparrot has really helped us to define a method which is easy to implement. This allows us to gather a lot of valuable information from our sorting facilities and enhance our knowledge of packaging, sorting technologies and the sorting yield of the installation."
“We are excited to be part of these trials. We see many different types of plastics on our sorting facility, and we welcome the opportunity to be able to more efficiently identify and sort these for recycling.”
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In the news, Featured Article, Circular Economy, Regulation • 5 MIN READ
The UK's recently-announced plan for a 2025 deposit return scheme rollout raises key questions about the order in which policies are implemented.
Mikela Druckman • Jan 31, 2023
Company, Featured Article • 4 MIN READ
In 2022, we saw a cultural shift in attitudes toward waste - Greyparrot is driving the transition to a circular economy by gathering more waste data
Alisa Pritchard • Jan 05, 2023
Company, In the news, Featured Article • 5 MIN READ
Earlier this year, two of our co-founders sat down to answer questions about Greyparrot for Dutch television channel RTL 7.
Alisa Pritchard • Dec 13, 2022