Tetra Pak Launches AI Sorting Technology at Scottish Recycling Facility

Tetra Pak Unveils AI Initiative at Scottish Recycling Facility

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Tetra Pak has declared the final phase of a three-part 2025 speculation program to promote food & beverage carton cataloging potentials in the UK. The plan structures fitting of AI-powered visual sorting expertise for the first time in Scotland. Tetra Pak has supported the development and integration of advanced AI-powered visual sorting technology at Levenseat Resource Management’s resource recycling facility (MRF) in Central Scotland, in partnership with the British technology start-up Recycleye.

This technology, known as Recycleye QuantiSort, utilizes AI and cameras to detect beverage cartons in the mixed resources waste stream. Inflated valves are then used to expel them for transfer and recycling.

This promotion will allow Levenseat Resource Management to improve the sorting of food & beverage cartons for recycling. The company provides a large area, comprising Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, and Dumbartonshire.

The statement of funding for Levenseat trails two other promotions at MRFs earlier in the year, bringing Tetra Pak’s total investment in the UK sorting substructure to £1.4m by 2025.

As the first site broadcast in May, J&B Recycling in Hartlepool established two new robotic sorting arms, also shaped by Recycleye.

• In July, Cumbria Waste Management in Carlisle became the first site in the UK to utilize the Recycleye QuantiSort, a technology that had previously been used at MRFs in Spain. The timing of this speculation at a Scottish MRF is noteworthy, given that the work is assumed to be part of the Circular Economy Act.

This involves Tetra Pak collaborating with the Scottish Government to ensure cartons are included in the updated Code of Practice for local establishments, which will provide a reliable method for recycling and help reduce customer confusion about what they can recycle.

Awantika Chadha, sustainability executive, Tetra Pak UK, expressed:

“We are pleased to be able to establish the power that ventures in cutting-edge AI technology grasp when it comes to enhancing the UK’s recycling organization. We are dedicated to helping the changeover to a circular economy in the UK, and will endeavor to promoter our method at Levenseat Resource Management, and somewhere else, to be seen as a blueprint for the upcoming of food & beverage carton sorting competencies both in Scotland and transversely the UK.”