Sorted works on the recycling line in three escalating steps. Waste Audit Studio produces composition reports from photographs, Sorted Light projects laser guidance onto the belt to show pickers which material to take, and SortBot is a retrofittable robot for the same job.
The laser step is the interesting middle ground. Full robotic sorting is a capital project most material recovery facilities cannot fund, and doing nothing leaves recovery rates where they are; guiding a human picker’s attention is cheap, immediate and works with the workforce already there. Photo-based auditing is the same logic applied to measurement, replacing a manual composition study.
Sorted Technologies in London names SUEZ, Biffa, Bywaters and Hills as customers, with no upfront cost, free installation and servicing, a three-month minimum and monthly rolling contracts after. Rates are not published and vary by device count, the hardware products mean installation on a live line, and photo-based auditing samples what the camera sees rather than the whole stream.
