A supplier of AI-powered sortation at scale for the waste and recycling business, AMP Robotics is utilizing its expertise to extract combined recyclables and natural materials from municipal strong waste (MSW) for additional processing at a facility owned by Recycling and Disposal Options (RDS) of Virginia (within the US).
This AI-powered MSW facility options an AMP ONE™ system and is an business first, at present processing 150 tons per day of native MSW with over 90 % uptime — described as “an unprecedented level of reliability for mixed waste sorting systems at a scale and footprint that was not previously feasible economically”. Designed to be co-located with landfills and switch stations, the AMP ONE system separates bagged trash into its part components of combined recyclables, organics, and residue. Outfitted with this expertise, the RDS facility is able to diverting greater than 60 % of landfill-bound materials when paired with organics administration and combined recyclables sorting programs, whether or not included right into a venture by AMP or constructed individually. MSW diversion meaningfully extends the lifetime of landfills, reduces their environmental influence, and retains disposal prices low.
“The economic and environmental opportunity in extracting value from the municipal solid waste stream is massive, and innovative sortation is key to unlocking this market,” stated Matanya Horowitz, AMP founder and CEO. “To move the industry forward, we’ve designed technology that’s resilient to contamination and can more easily go after dirtier material streams. We see the success of the facility in Portsmouth as a blueprint for other municipalities looking to extend the life of their landfills and reach ambitious diversion targets. Given that recycling rates have been stagnant over the last decade, this presents a new opportunity to expand recycling—one that works for existing waste infrastructure assets.”
AMP provides the business’s most refined AI platform, which will be expanded to all sorts of materials streams, together with MSW. The corporate has a various set of sortation expertise functions powered by this AI platform, together with AMP Jet™which it could possibly lengthen to type in new methods to answer design challenges or to allow new recycling and diversion pathways.
“At RDS, we’ve been early and enthusiastic adopters of advanced technologies to increase recovery and landfill diversion, drive down processing costs for local governments, and generate data for continuous facility improvement,” stated Joe Benedetto, president of RDS. “AMP delivers best-in-class sorting solutions, and it was a natural fit to partner on this project and pioneer an economical way of capturing the value in our waste, especially as local communities close their recycling programs due to increasing costs.”
In 2023, RDS accomplished a brand new 33,000-square-foot constructing at its current web site in Portsmouth, which has offered native recycling providers since 2005. RDS put in an AMP ONE system and started processing MSW within the facility in late 2023. This venture demonstrated the AMP ONE system’s capability for sorting MSW into salable commodities. AMP and RDS started working collectively in 2017; RDS additionally operates services in Roanoke, Virginia; Greenville, North Carolina; and Athens, Georgia.
