How It Works
Landfill OS is an automated landfill mining system built into a shipping container. It fits in a 40-ft footprint and deploys to any landfill globally in weeks, not years.
Mobile
Fits in a 40-ft container and deploys directly to any landfill globally. No centralized materials recovery facility, no trucking waste offsite first.
Automated
Robotics, machine vision, and AI sort active and legacy waste with minimal human labor, right where it sits.
The process
Excavate
On-site excavation moves legacy or active waste into the system, no trucking to a central facility first.
Sense
Machine-vision and sensor arrays identify metals, plastics, organics, and e-waste in the stream in real time.
Sort
Robotics and AI separate material streams on the spot, with minimal human labor and no central sorting facility required.
Recover
Recovered materials are baled for resale; residuals are routed to energy recovery or safe landfill.
What gets recovered
The sensor array identifies each material stream as it moves through the system; robotics sort it out for resale or reuse instead of burial.
Metals
Aluminum, copper, and steel: the highest-yield recovery stream by weight.
E-waste & circuit boards
A small share of total mass, but high value per ton from recoverable gold and palladium.
Plastics
HDPE, PET, and other resins sorted for recycling or resale.
Paper & cardboard
One of the largest mass fractions in a typical municipal waste stream.
Organics
Routed to compost markets instead of landfill.
Glass
Crushed into cullet and routed to glass manufacturers instead of landfill.