Innovative AI System Trained to Identify Recyclable Waste

According to the World Bank, approximately 2.24 billion tonnes of solid waste were generated in 2020, with projections indicating a 73% increase to 3.88 billion tonnes by 2050.

Plastic waste is a significant concern, with research from the Universities of Georgia and California revealing that over 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste was produced between the 1950s and 2015.

Training AI systems to recognize and classify various forms of rubbish, such as crumpled and dirty items like a discarded Coke bottle, remains a challenging task due to the complexity of waste conditions.

Mikela Druckman, the founder of Greyparrot, a UK start-up focused on waste analysis, is well aware of these staggering statistics. Greyparrot utilizes AI technology and cameras to analyze waste processing and recycling facilities, monitoring around 50 sites in Europe and tracking 32 billion waste objects per year.

“It is allowing regulators to have a much better understanding of what’s happening with the material, what materials are problematic, and it is also influencing packaging design,” says Ms Druckman.

“We talk about climate change and waste management as separate things, but actually they are interlinked because most of the reasons why we are using resources is because we’re not actu

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