Improve your Overall Equipment effectiveness (OEE): more uptime, more tonnes, more margin

Typical Analyzer installation takes 1-2 days per unit. The hardware mounts above an existing conveyor belt, no changes to your sorting infrastructure are required. After installation, calibration and customer onboarding usually adds another 1-2 weeks before live data is flowing through the portal.

Greyparrot's recognition library covers 100+ material categories spanning 17 top-level groups, including all common plastic types (PET, HDPE, PP, PS, PVC, PLA), paper grades, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, glass colours, composites, and contaminants such as food residue, black plastic, and tanglers. The library updates continuously as new packaging formats enter the waste stream.

Manual sampling typically covers less than 0.1% of throughput with significant operator-to-operator variance. Greyparrot Analyzer covers 99.9% of throughput continuously with consistent, audit-grade classification. The data is timestamped and pulled directly into the portal, no human transcription error.

For a mid-sized MRF processing ~150,000 t/yr, documented customer outcomes point to a 6-12 month payback. The biggest value drivers are: throughput and uptime optimisation, residue valuables capture, output purity protection, and replacement of manual sampling for both operations and compliance. Use the value calculator above to model your facility's specifics.

Yes, provided there's an Analyzer on every infeed and outfeed of the sorting process. The portal works out OEE continuously from live composition data: availability is uptime against scheduled production time, performance is actual throughput against design capacity, and quality is the contamination and purity on each output stream. When the score drops you can see which loss caused it, on which line and shift, and what it's costing. Manufacturers have measured OEE this way for over a decade. Recovery facilities have had to piece it together afterwards from weighbridge tickets, downtime logs and bale audits. This does it live.

Yes. Analyzer is hardware-agnostic, it sits above your existing optical sorters, eddy currents, NIR units, and balers, providing the data layer rather than replacing equipment. For closed-loop control, Greyparrot Sync enables Analyzer data to dynamically adjust optical sorter settings via integrations with major equipment manufacturers.

Yes. Analyzer produces continuous, timestamped composition data covering 100% of monitored throughput, replacing the sampling campaigns traditionally required for PRO reporting, regulator submissions, and customer contract verification. The data is audit-grade and exportable in standard formats.

Yes. Manual sampling typically requires staff to physically handle waste by hand for many hours each month, a documented H&S exposure. Greyparrot eliminates this contact entirely: the Analyzer monitors material from above, and all classification happens via cameras and AI. No operator needs to touch unsorted waste for compliance or operational data.

Greyparrot Analyzer is deployed across 250+ Analyzer units, in 65+ facilities and 20+ countries, covering an estimated 70% of Europe's waste management market. Customer references include Re-Gen, KSI Recycling, Green Tech (Lithuania), Biffa, Veolia, A2A, Berry Global, and Confidential US MRF operators, across MRFs, PRFs, and PET wash plants.