Robotics and AI
The robots sort the recycled materials into separate containers. The information is centralized in a server that controls every robot.
The robots are custom designed to be able to sort through multiple materials for a specific product. The robots are preprogrammed to sort basic materials, as they learn through AI, they obtain more information about a wider variety of products. This information is stored on a central server so that as one robot learns, all the other robots instantly benefit from that knowledge.
The robots use artificial intelligence to predict a variance in a product such as a glass bottle that looks the same as a plastic bottle. This is how the robots learn. If there is more than one server, this information is uploaded to the cloud each night so that all servers can be informed of this additional learning. Then every server in the network is updated for the changes.