Case Study: FCC Environment and re3 achieve 99% HDPE purity with Recycleye robotic sorting

FCC Environment boosts HDPE purity to 99% with Recycleye

The customer, FCC Environment for the re3 partnership, sought a solution to segregate and remove contamination from a split-stream plastics line at their recycling facility. They partnered with the vendor Recycleye to test an AI-powered robotic waste picking system to improve material purity.

Recycleye installed a retrofittable robotic system that used AI computer vision to identify and pick target materials. The solution achieved an average of 55 picks per minute, increased target material volume by 12%, and delivered a 99% purity rate with less than 1% contamination. Recycleye's technology provided FCC Environment with a significant increase in both the yield and quality of their sorted output.

FCC Environment (for Re3)