Beyond the Smart Hype: The One Metric Your Zero Waste Plan is Ignoring

Beyond the Smart Hype: The One Metric Your Zero Waste Plan is Ignoring

If you run a high traffic facility like a stadium, a convention center, or a sprawling campus, you probably have a 2030 sustainability goal taped to your wall. Right now, contamination is the single biggest threat to that goal. You have likely seen the pitches for...
Why AI Screens Aren’t Stopping Your Recycling Contamination Problem

Why AI Screens Aren’t Stopping Your Recycling Contamination Problem

Modern recycling stations are becoming increasingly sophisticated. You can find them in airports, stadiums, corporate campuses, and universities. These stations feature sleek touchscreens that identify items, provide real-time guidance, and even use animations to...
Smarter Plastic Recycling: Cut Contamination With Data

Smarter Plastic Recycling: Cut Contamination With Data

If you ask most people, they’ll tell you they recycle. They place bottles and cups in the recycling bin and assume those materials are getting a second life. Reality is more complicated. Across campuses, stadiums, offices, and cities, 30–50% of what enters a recycling...

Recycle Smart Monitoring System™

The Recycle Smart Monitoring System™ (RSMS) provides a method to measure the fullness of a recycling bins. The Topper Stopper™ units equipped with RSMS determine the depth of an empty bin, then check the bin depth at specified intervals. Notifications are sent out via text message and/or email when bins reach a specified level of fullness. This works on varying sizes of bins because the system obtains the depth each time a bin is emptied (or replaced).