Two recent UMass Amherst engineering graduates want to take decisions about what to recycle out of the hands of humans and turn them over to a machine. Designer Ian Goodine said the reality is that humans just aren't that good at deciding what's truly recyclable and what isn't, and a machine can help sort more garbage into the right place.
Ethan Walko, left, and Ian Goodine, right, with the machine they designed to photograph trash at UMass Amherst as part of a larger project to build a machine that can sort garbage from recycling.
Off to one side sat a large gray cabinet a bit bigger than a kitchen stove. On one side, a sign said"landfill." The other side said"recycling." Through all the pictures of trash, Goodine hopes the AI system will learn what's what and get more accurate. The longer-term goal is to build a system that also sorts the garbage. At a facility in Somerville, Goodine and his team are working on that.
Goodine co-founded a company called rStream to develop the system with fellow UMass grad Ethan Walko. They met in a dorm freshman year and graduated together in 2021, with graduate degrees a year later. For example, if administrators notice a lot of people are throwing potato chip bags"in the wrong place," she said,"then focus in on, 'The chip bag goes here, not here.'"
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