Sorting
Optical sorting facilities for household waste are advanced systems designed for cost-efficient waste collection and sorting. This technology relies on households source-separating their waste and recyclables into bags of different colours. All bags are collected in one single bin, eliminating the need for additional routing and the already-in-place infrastructure can still be used.
At a central sorting facility, the bags are identified by their colour and diverted from the residual waste stream using cameras and sorting robots. The separated waste fractions are subsequently processed into biomethane or sent to other recycling facilities to produce raw feedstock for new products.