The C3/V1 Consortium plant in Algímia d’Alfara has managed more than 700 tons from municipalities affected by the dana. To improve the recovery process, a robot with artificial intelligence (AI) has been incorporated in one of the rejection lines of the Algímia d’Alfara plant. This robot, financed entirely by the Conselleria de Medio Ambiente, Infraestructuras y Territorio, classifies and accurately collects the recyclable materials that remain in the rejects, for their subsequent recovery, thus avoiding their deposit in the landfill.
With this intelligent triage robot, installed by the management company, Reciclados Palancia Belcaire, of the Urbaser group, the efficiency of the treatment process is being increased, reducing sorting costs and maximizing the value extracted, as well as reducing the waste that ends up in landfills and its environmental impact, in turn generating economic and fiscal savings. In this way, it recovers an average of 50 kg of materials per hour, with a separation of 1,500 materials per hour, destined for recovery.
Specifically, the robot separates waste into four categories: PET bottles (uncrushed or filled with liquid, which traditional optics have difficulty detecting), HDPE containers, aluminum cans, and paper and cardboard. To achieve this, it uses a machine vision system that scans each object on the belt and identifies it, based on features learned through a machine learning algorithm trained on a dataset of 1 billion images.
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