91²Ö¿â management company Mid Valley Disposal has unveiled a new state-of-the-art processing line. The 30-year-old business now holds the largest and most advanced line of its kind between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It’s equipped with three AI-powered robots for sorting valuable recyclables like cardboard, aluminum cans, glass, and plastic bottles.
“With the AI technology, with the optical sorters, we can process faster, we can have cleaner streams and reduce the residual that’s going back to the landfill,” Kalpakoff said. The improvement will increase production while reducing operating hours from six days a week at 12 hours a day to five days a week at 7 hours a day.
The robots will also add 20 jobs, with employees required to perform maintenance on the new line. Mid Valley partnered with California-based AI company Glacier to help develop the robots that use optical sorters to improve processing speed and reduce residual waste going to the landfill.