Waste Connections will deploy AI-guided recycling robots on container, fibre and residue lines across multiple materials recovery facilities
Waste Connections is set to deploy AMP Robotics’ AI-guided recycling robots. (Credit: AMP Robotics)
AMP Robotics has entered into a long-term agreement with Waste Connections for the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) guided recycling robots.
Waste Connections is planning to deploy AI-guided recycling robots on container, fibre and residue lines across multiple materials recovery facilities.
Waste Connections president and CEO Worthing Jackman said: “Waste Connections is committed to expanding resource recovery capacity, and we believe AMP’s robotics systems align with our goals to enhance safety, increase productivity, and improve recovered resource quality.”
The technology provided by AMP will help restore plastics, cardboard, paper, cans and cartons, as well as multiple other containers and packaging types reclaimed for raw material processing.
AMP’s AI platform to help detect different types of plastics accurately
AMP’s AI platform is said to accurately detect different types of plastics such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET or PETE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS).
These products will be further sorted by colour, clarity, and opacity, along with different form factors such as lids, tubs, clamshells, cups and others.
AMP’s technology has the capacity to rapidly adapt to container packaging launched into the recycling stream with recognition capabilities to the brand level, thereby enabling consumer packaged goods companies to meet their commitment of using post-consumer recycled content.
AMP Robotics founder and CEO Matanya Horowitz said: “We’re thrilled to be supporting Waste Connections’ commitment to expanding resource recovery as we extend our efforts to modernize recycling operations and advance a more circular economy.
“To see such a robust expansion of our pipeline and mark this milestone in a year upended by Covid-19 is a testament to our industry-leading technology—and working with a visionary company like Waste Connections helps enable and strengthen an essential public service.”
In September this year, Motion Controls Robotics (MCRI), a provider of robotics and automation technologies, launched a new robotic tape inspection station for end of line packaging.