The smart way to sort, sample and report on waste
Recover more resources and maximise profits by getting a closer look at your material.
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Boosting recovery rates with KSI Recycling
Find out how Analyzer data helped one of the Netherlands' recycling leaders increase recovery by 10%.
Addressing the root cause of inefficiency
High Volumes of waste
Recovery facilities deal with million of tonnes of waste every day. React instantly to changing composition to maximise both product quality and throughput.
Inconsistent Material
Residue content fluctuates by 10 to as much as 55% on a typical MRF infeed. Live data captures those changes, enabling smarter systems and sorting that captures more value.
Inefficient Operations
Inefficient operations reduce productivity and profitability. Reliable composition data gives you the insight needed to measure performance, and make improvements that maximise profits.
Turning inefficiencies into opportunities
INCREASE THROUGHPUT
Increased throughput control improves yield. Stabilising throughput rates led to an 18% increase in material recovery at a major MRF.
Increase Recovery
Monitoring and adapting to change in real time improves recovery. One MRF traced a 10% increase in residue loss to a 10% drop in infeed blend quality.
Increase uptime
Responding to incidents faster increases uptime. A fast response to a 7% performance dip saved ÂŁ800 per day at another large MRF.
Smarter decisions lead to bigger profits
Profitability is a delicate balance of throughput, product quality and value losses.
Many facilities are making those trade-offs based on guesswork, or expensive manual sampling.
Others are using Greyparrot Analyzer to monitor composition automatically – and find the perfect balance between yield, quality and productivity.
Find your profit opportunities
Analyzer data helps you get more from the materials and infrastructure you've already invested in:
One MRF disovered that 28% of residue line material was valuable target material, and just 7% was truly non-recyclable.
Comparing costs: AI monitoring vs. manual sampling
Manually sampling 30 PET bales (15 tonnes) would take 375 hours, and cost ÂŁ4,300.
Greyparrot Analyzer takes just 6 hours, costing ÂŁ17.
How our customers are using AI waste analytics
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How a simple test boosted KSI’s recovery by 10%
Goal: Increase material recovery by better understanding what’s in residue lines & how often machinery cleaning impacts performance.
Solution: Run process experiments and monitor live residue composition vs relying only on manual sampling and intuition.
Result: KSI boosted its recovery by about 10%, reduced the loss of valuable plastics, and maintained residue composition within regulatory thresholds, avoiding penalties.
"Cleaning helped us maintain higher performance, and ensured less valuable material ended up in residue. Before this, we were losing around 30% of our valuable commodities. Now that we’re optimising based on data, we’re losing just 20% — and our residue composition is back within regulatory thresholds."
Tjerk Wiersma
Process Engineer at KSI Recycling
Up to 24 hour reduction
in response times
Goal: Meet customer product purity requirements.
Solution: Analyzer deployed covering output and residues lines in MRF in Northern Ireland, 200,000 tonnes pa.
Result: A rapid response ensured the final output remained on-spec by addressing contamination issues in real time, reducing response times by 24 hours.
"Greyparrot analyses picker performance, evaluates optical sorters and processes, and ensures continuous quality control on baled materials sent to customers. Accurate facility data makes us driving instructors, not chauffeurs."
Conor McCooey
CIO at Re-Gen
200 extra tonnes processed each month
Goal: Maximise throughput and maintain quality
Solution: In this facility a single Analyzer was placed on an infeed line leading to a PET dry separation and wash line.
Result: Green Tech was able to increase their overall tonnes process by 200 tonnes per month, representing a 9% increase in their total production.
"The data that we get from Analyzer is really detailed. That's going to impact sorting, and how we change our infeed”
Alan Smith
CTO at GreenTech
The recovery facility of the future, on a single platform
React
Use the insight from Greyparrot Analyzer’s live dashboards to:
- Track 111+ types of waste with 98% accuracy, showing mass, count, financial value, food-grade, brand, and more.
- Adapt sorting processes to shifting amounts of target material and contaminants.
- Monitor multiple streams in one place, and assess the impact of process adjustments remotely to balance throughput and quality.
Report
Historical data makes it possible to identify trends in downtime, material loss and more:
- Monitor residue belts to diagnose the amount of target material being lost.
- Monitor pre-baler lines to track and certify bale quality with confidence.
- Identify and prepare for recurring material trends, from changes in infeed composition up to seasonal spikes.
Connect
Use Greyparrot’s Sync integrations to introduce automation throughout your entire facility:
- Improve the accuracy of sorting machinery with real-time picking coordinates.
- Power facility management software with accurate data that reflects real-world operations.
The most flexible waste analytics system available
Greyparrot Analyzer
Our core system uses artificial intelligence to provide waste managers with real-time insight on a series of intuitive dashboards.
Greyparrot Analyzer Units
Our monitoring units track waste flows in real-time. Cameras capture live images of waste objects, which our AI analyses.
Greyparrot Sync
Our integration system turns your machinery and software into “smart” tools — connecting existing and new infrastructure to real-time waste flow data.
Support from installation to insight
Throughout your time with Greyparrot, our team of engineers and data analysts will map your path to lean facility operations, finding new avenues for data-driven improvements along the way.
