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AMP ROBOTICS PARTNERSHIP IMPROVES HAZARD DETECTION IN THE RECYCLABLES STREAM
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MP Robotics is working with The Happy Beetle, a doorto-door recycling subscription service, to improve the detection and diversion of hazardous materials found in the waste stream. When not properly recycled or disposed of, items like propane tanks, pressurized containers, batteries, and other electronics can cause safety issues including fires, explosions, worker injuries, and damage to processing equipment at recycling facilities. The Happy Beetle collects these and other difficult-to-recycle materials that cannot be placed in curbside recycling bins and works with businesses and nonprofits to repurpose or recycle them. AMP’s AI enables its robotic sorting systems to identify individual pieces of material like a person does. It learns logos, shapes, textures, and more. It can also recognize and pick a full array of materials found in the recycling stream – even items that do not belong. Using deep learning, the platform gets smarter and more accurate in its identification over time, and its intelligence compounds as it learns from the company’s fleet. “Partnering with a local recycler like The Happy Beetle who shares our commitment to a circular economy enables us to source samples of rare hazardous materials to train and improve our neural network so we can stay ahead of the potential danger they pose to the operating environments of our materials recovery facility customers,” says Amanda Marrs, senior director of product at AMP Robotics.
NOVELIS TO BUILD $365 MILLION RECYCLING CENTRE
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ovelis will invest $365 million to build a highly advanced recycling centre for automotive manufacturing in North America which is expected to reduce the company’s carbon emissions by more than one million tons each year. The new recycling facility will be built adjacent to Novelis’ existing automotive finishing plant in Guthrie, Kentucky. Through closed-loop recycling, the company takes back the aluminum remaining after automotive parts are stamped from sheets and remakes it into the same product for new vehicle production. The centre will also have the capability to process aluminum from vehicles at the end of their life cycle.
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