You have recycling and sustainability goals for your packaging. However, if you don’t know whether your products are being properly sorted at a materials recovery facility (MRF), it is impossible to determine if you are achieving those goals. Without this crucial information, you can’t accurately report your sustainability efforts. Understanding the recyclability of your packaging and ensuring it is recovered at a MRF will be crucial for meeting your corporate sustainability goals and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements. Luckily, new technologies like AI and robotics are here to help.
Traditional sorting and auditing methods in recycling facilities are manual, making gathering accurate and reliable data on recycling rates for packaging types impossible. Now, artificial intelligence solutions can be deployed throughout a recycling plant to identify and capture data and analytics on specific brands' packaging in the recycling stream, assess its characteristics, and deliver pertinent data and insights, including the recovery rate.
At EverestLabs, we can tell if your packaging is being recycled and give you information to help you meet your recycling goals. EverestLabs’ AI and robotics solution, RecycleOS, can identify and recover brand-specific packaging in MRFs while providing your company with vast amounts of data about the recyclability of different packaging types. This information can be used to optimize packaging design and assess the effectiveness of recycling programs while providing companies with auditable reports on sustainability metrics that can inform EPR and corporate sustainability initiatives.
EverestLabs AI can collect local and regional data to assess recycling and recovery rates for brands and package types.
Packaging manufacturers and CPG brands can use data on recycling rates to optimize packaging design to ensure your company's packaging is being recovered.
AI robotics recover brand-specific brands and use data to inform recycling rates and recovered value. Robotics can be placed throughout a recycling facility to recover your packaging at higher rates, which will be mandatory under EPR and support your company's sustainability initiatives.
EverestLabs can provide your company with auditable reports on sustainability metrics that can inform EPR and corporate recycled packaging Initiatives. Our data reports on metrics including GHG savings and energy savings. Additionally, EverestLabs recycling data can serve as a basis for EPR-driven audits.
Since scope 3 emissions typically account for 95% of a company's overall carbon footprint, tackling scope 3 emissions is crucial for meeting corporate sustainability goals. EverestLabs can help your company reduce your scope 3 emissions by:
EverestLabs’ AI platform is designed to adapt to new material types within days to weeks of observing them. Once it becomes aware of an object, our AI distributes its knowledge to all other recycling facilities so that different facilities can learn from one another and make a larger impact.
New circularity and corporate sustainable packaging commitments are producing a demand for sustainable and recyclable packaging. Therefore, securing enough high-quality recycled content to meet the demand for sustainable packaging is nearly impossible. This directly affects brands that cannot fulfill their need for sustainable packaging and, therefore can’t meet their corporate packaging commitments. By placing RecycleOS into MRFs and reclaimers, we can boost the capture and supply of recycled content for reusable packaging, strengthening the circular economy.
We have recently partnered with the Can Manufacturers Institute, the national trade association of the metal can manufacturing industry, to significantly increase the recovery of used beverage cans (UBCs) at two MRFs, Caglia Environmental and Lakeshore Recycling Recycling Systems (LRS). Both recyclers placed EverestLabs AI and robotics in their recycling facilities to ensure UBCs will be recovered and recycled for new purposes.
Interested in learning how EverestLabs can help your company meet its sustainable packaging goals? Contact us to speak with an expert!