Artificial intelligence for recycling: AMP Robotics

Globally, AMP has estimated that more than USD 200 billion worth of recyclable materials goes unrecovered annually. The economics and efficiency of identifying and sorting paper, plastics, metals, and other recyclables from the waste stream creates a major challenge for material recovery. In recent years, the waste industry has also faced stricter international quality standards for contamination-free imports of recyclable materials, leaving the industry in search of cost-effective ways to meet these requirements. AMP's technologies allow more recyclables to be captured from waste streams, producing a greater volume of high-purity secondary resources. In one recycling centre in Virginia that installed the technology, the volume of recycled material increased by 10%.