Waste Management Pacific Northwest was looking for a solution that helped them improve contamination rates in their region in order to send cleaner material to landfills and increase profitability of their recycling practices. That’s when they found Compology.

With Compology’s AI-powered remote dumpster monitoring technology, Waste Management can identify 6 categories of contaminants across recycling, waste, and organics streams. WM is also providing customers with a standardized measure of contamination, which encourages businesses to improve recycling and organics practices and change behavior indefinitely.

Remote monitoring allows Waste Management and its customers to meet their Zero Waste and diversion goals. In fact, within the first five months of implementing Compology across it Pacific Northwest region, the company has seen a “60% reduction in contamination”, says Jason Rose, Area Vice President (Pacific Northwest, British Columbua, and Alaska) of Waste Management.

With remote contamination monitoring, Waste Management implements accurate, timely contamination alerting and communication, tracks generator disposal habits, and coaches on recycling best practices to boost improvement over time.

Jason also points out the economic incentive for customers, which is system-wide cost savings because processing lines run much faster without contamination. Plus, it increases the marketability of the material and boosts the environmental benefits. Waste Management believes technology like Compology’s is a key driver to cleaner, safer, and more cost-effective waste management.

“In the end, it’s all about sustainable leadership. We’re very focused on using data, technology, and innovation to work closely with our customers to really make recycling sustainable and cost-effective for the long-term,” says Jason.

And on Compology’s end, we couldn’t agree more. “We were overwhelmed by the positive response to and rapid adoption of our contamination measurement AI technology that allows us to identify specific contaminants in recycling, waste and organics streams,” says Compology CEO, Jason Gates. “Our customers have already been able to drastically reduce contamination and increase revenue from their recycling operations as a result, so we’ve continued to invest in cutting edge technology to greatly expand our content identification capabilities to a list of high-priority contaminants that will continuously grow as we learn the specific needs of future customers.”