California Waste Solutions upgrades sorting tech at two Bay Area MRFs

California Waste Solutions is expanding Pellenc ST optical-sorting capacity at its Timothy MRF in San Jose and installing new EverestLabs AI scanners at its 10th Street MRF in Oakland. The San Jose upgrade targets higher material recovery and product purity, while the Oakland scanners provide real-time item counting and belt-condition data. A further phase involving robotic or additional optical sorting is under consideration.

Why this mattersMRF operators are pairing optical sorting with AI data capture to raise recovery and purity as feedstock composition and contamination levels keep shifting.

• California Waste Solutions is increasing Pellenc ST optical-sorter capacity at its Timothy MRF in San Jose.
• The company is newly installing EverestLabs AI scanners at its 10th Street MRF in Oakland.
• The Oakland scanners will count items and report belt burden depth and exposed belt surface on the container line.
• California Waste Solutions has used optical sorting since the mid-2000s.
• A further phase under consideration could add robotic sorting, additional optical sorting, or both, based on the scanner data.

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