How Viridor and SUEZ use AI to boost their sorting efficiency
Innovators will inform the future of AI in the waste sector. We spoke to Viridor and SUEZ about deployment, and what they learned in the process.
Alisa Pritchard • Nov 23, 2022
Trusted by global leaders in waste management:
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Automating waste composition analysis at sorting facilities
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.
Guaranteed product quality
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.
Reduce labour costs and remain compliant
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.
Improve operational efficiency
Evaluate operational decisions, take proactive decisions and measure their impact on the bottom line using composition and value loss data.
Don't just take our word for it
We work with industry leaders in resource and waste management around the world. Here’s what they think of our system:
Ian McSpirit, Site Manager at Biffa
“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.”
Felix Badura, General Manager of DiGiDo ARA
“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.”
Guglielmo Carra, Innovation Manager, A2A
“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.”
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Harrison Kim, Managing Director at ACI
"Our new bond with Greyparrot leads us towards innovation and helps us tackle one of the world’s current global issues – the waste crisis."
Director at large global waste management company
"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."
Bill Swan, Managing Director of Paper Round
“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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