California Waste Solutions, Inc. is putting AI scanners and expanded optical sorting to work at its Bay Area plants as Oakland launches a new aerial AI program which will help the City of Oakland to detect illegal dumping before it sits on the street.
city announced Aerbits on September 10 consisting of AI-assisted aerial imagery meant to spot abandoned trash instead of waiting on 311. Separately, California Waste Solutions, Oakland’s longtime recycling contractor, is installing EverestLabs AI scanners at its 10th Street material recovery facility in Oakland and increasing Pellenc optical-sorting capacity at the Timothy MRF in San Jose.
California Waste Solutions announced this month that it is adding AI components to its optical sorters. The company’s most recent investment in the AI optical sorters stand to support the city in its aim to crack down on the problem of illegal waste dumping.
“We are delighted to help the City of Oakland where we are from in fighting illegal waste dumping,” said Michael Duong, President of California Waste Solutions. “Our family company grew up in Oakland and expanded to southern California and as far away as Vietnam, but everything we built has been...