Unsorted recycling handled at AI sorting center
Unsorted recycling handled at AI sorting center
2024-08-26
When you spend time to sort recycling, but it all gets crushed into a garbage truck, does that mean it was all for nothing? In New Taipei’s Luzhou District, some residents have complained that the sanitation workers don’t separate out recycling. They just toss everything into the truck to be crushed. But the workers said not to worry. It’s taken to the nation’s first smart recycling plant, where it’s sorted more efficiently with AI.
Bag after bag of recycling is taken from a recycling truck and dumped into a trash compactor without sorting by type, drawing sharp criticism.
Someone posted a photo questioning why the sanitation workers were crushing everything indiscriminately. Why work hard to sort recycling, then? Another guessed that it was all going to be incinerated. But it’s actually all a misunderstanding.
Lee Li-hui
Luzhou sanitation chief
Since the truck is yellow, people assume it’s for trash and think it’s all headed for the incinerator. But that’s not the case. They’re collection trucks that take the recycling to a sorting center, where it’s sorted using high-tech AI. Here in New Taipei, we’ve improved recycling efficiency.
This trash truck is actually labeled as a recycling collection truck. Its purpose is to condense large amounts of recycling by flattening it. Then it’s shuttled off to its next destination for sorting: the nation’s first AI recycling center.
Piles of recycling are mixed together and placed on a conveyer belt, where workers do a first round of sorting. After they remove large pieces of cardboard, it’s fed into an optical sorter that can pick out smaller paper materials. Then an AI-powered robotic arm does another round of sorting.
The machine senses paper takeout and drink boxes, and separates them from ordinary paper. Last is a magnet that can remove cans to ensure everything is thoroughly sorted.
Lin Chao-hung
AI recycling center manager
Above we have two optical sorters that eject paper and plastic, which are the two most common types of recyclables. Then at the end we use a robotic arm and human sorters to do more precise sorting.
New Taipei’s AI recycling center is initially handling recycling from Luzhou, Xinzhuang, Sanchong, Tucheng and Shenkeng districts, where it’s enabled more efficient recycling. So next time you see a collection truck going about its business, know that everything is fine. There’s no need to make a complaint to the sanitation department!
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資源回收沒分類全壓扁? 清潔隊澄清:載到資收廠細分
2024-08-26
民眾做好的資源回收，全都被丟進垃圾車壓縮機中，難道是白做工嗎？新北市蘆洲地區，有民眾發現，清潔隊員整理回收物，沒分類，就丟進垃圾車的壓縮機壓扁，直呼分類是分心酸的，清潔隊趕緊澄清，民眾分類的物品，是丟進資源回收接駁車，載到全國首創資收分選廠，再透過AI分類，提升工作效率，民眾別誤會。
資源回收車，把一袋又一袋的回收物，通通不分類，丟進垃圾車壓縮機中，引發民眾議論。
有人拍下照片，質疑為何清潔隊員，不分類全都丟進壓縮機中壓扁，難道民眾辛苦分類，是分心酸的嗎，還有人瞎猜這是通通堆去燒吧，只是背後誤會可大了。
[[新北市蘆洲區清潔隊隊長 李麗慧]]
“我們是黃色的，他就會認為說是"垃圾車"，就認為說把它都當垃圾這樣子，會載到焚化廠去做焚燒，不對，沒有。反而我們有了這些接駁車，我們進到分選基地，經過這個高科技的AI之後，我們新北市提升了，我們資源回收的工作效率”
其實這輛垃圾車，特別註明是"資源回收接駁車"，目的就是先將大量收到的回收物，丟進接駁車中"解壓縮"，緊接繼續出任務，而民眾丟的回收物，則統一來到全國首創"AI資收廠"進行細分。
大量回收物混合在一起，進到輸送帶的下一步，就是先交由人工初選，把大型紙箱過濾後，再進到光分選機，辨識出紙類回收物，而透過AI科技手臂，還能從中再分類。
透過科技感應出便當紙盒，或是鋁箔包回收物，加以跟紙類區分開來，最後還有一台磁選機，直接可以吸出鐵罐，徹底將回收物分門別類。
[["AI資收廠"大豐環保公司組長 林昭宏]]
“我們上面會有兩台光分選機，分別把紙類以及塑膠類，這種最大宗的回收物先噴射出來，再到後面用AI手臂等等，以及人工的方式去做更細部的分類”
新北AI資收廠，初步規劃處理蘆洲、新莊、三重、土城、深坑區的回收物，有效提升工作效率，民眾下回見到資收接駁車"出任務"，千萬別再誤認，畢竟投訴電話接不完，反而造成清潔隊的困擾。
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