A supplier of AI-powered sortation at scale for the waste and recycling trade, 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 trade first, presently processing 150 tons per day of native MSW with over 90 % uptime — described as “an unprecedented degree of reliability for combined waste sorting programs at a scale and footprint that was not beforehand possible economically”. Designed to be co-located with landfills and switch stations, the AMP ONE system separates bagged trash into its element elements of combined recyclables, organics, and residue. Geared up 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 integrated right into a undertaking by AMP or constructed individually. MSW diversion meaningfully extends the lifetime of landfills, reduces their environmental impression, and retains disposal prices low.
“The financial and environmental alternative in extracting worth from the municipal strong waste stream is huge, and revolutionary sortation is essential to unlocking this market,” stated Matanya Horowitz, AMP founder and CEO. “To maneuver the trade ahead, we’ve designed expertise that’s resilient to contamination and might extra simply go after dirtier materials streams. We see the success of the ability in Portsmouth as a blueprint for different municipalities seeking to lengthen the lifetime of their landfills and attain bold diversion targets. Provided that recycling charges have been stagnant over the past decade, this presents a brand new alternative to develop recycling—one which works for present waste infrastructure belongings.”
AMP provides the trade’s most subtle AI platform, which might be expanded to all forms of materials streams, together with MSW. The corporate has a various set of sortation expertise purposes powered by this AI platform, together with AMP Jet™, which it could lengthen to kind 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 superior applied sciences to extend restoration and landfill diversion, drive down processing prices for native governments, and generate information for steady facility enchancment,” stated Joe Benedetto, president of RDS. “AMP delivers best-in-class sorting options, and it was a pure match to associate on this undertaking and pioneer a cost-effective method of capturing the worth in our waste, particularly as native communities shut their recycling packages resulting from growing prices.”
In 2023, RDS accomplished a brand new 33,000-square-foot constructing at its present web site in Portsmouth, which has offered native recycling companies since 2005. RDS put in an AMP ONE system and started processing MSW within the facility in late 2023. This undertaking demonstrated the AMP ONE system’s capability for sorting MSW into salable commodities. AMP and RDS started working collectively in 2017; RDS additionally operates amenities in Roanoke, Virginia; Greenville, North Carolina; and Athens, Georgia.
