Top 8 Startups developing AI for Waste Sorting in USA

Oct 22, 2024 | By Siddhant Patel

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Funding: $66.4M
Sortera Alloys brings state-of-the-art artificial intelligence image/data analytics and advanced sensors to the industrial scrap metal recycling and re-use industry. It's focused on converting recycled material from vehicles into new tech products
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Funding: $481.7M
Rubicon provides affordable waste and recycling solutions for businesses seeking a smarter, sustainable alternative. Using technologies such as visual recognition and machine learning, the company conducts an initial screening of a client’s waste streams to identify types of waste and quantities, develops a waste separation system, and then tailors a waste collection schedule.
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Funding: $175.1M
AMP Robotics creates robotic systems that sort recyclable material at a fraction of the cost of current technology.
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Funding: $65.1M
Smarter Sorting is a machine learning for waste. Smarter Sorting allows municipalities to take waste of extreme negative value and use our proprietary software to sort that waste into high value commodities that are sold into established markets.
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Funding: $21.4M
Everestlabs.AI develops an AI-based robotics technology to recover valuable recyclables.
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Funding: $11M
CleanRobotics is developing a machine that uses cameras, sensors, and machine learning to ensure that garbage ends up in the landfill and recyclables don’t.
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Funding: $3.4M
Refiberd develops an AI and robotics-based textile recycling system that sorts and recycles unsorted, discarded textiles into new ones.
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Funding: $20K
rStream Recycling pushes the limits of high-tech sustainability by leveraging recent advances in machine vision and novel hardware to automate waste sorting
Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)org