Sorting and Collection

QR-code based Waste Sorting Solution

We are the 1st in Greece to implement waste-sorting technology, achieving up to 95% accuracy, surpassing the European average
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  • Cyclefi’ sorting solution improves waste management and increase recycling with this simple to use waste sorting system.
  • Cyclefi specializes in projects for waste management and taxation with tracking, identification and quantitative technologies. We cooperate with waste sector leaders both as QR-code tag suppiers and integrators of labeling and rewarding systems.

We are optimizing sorting and collection of waste

With our intelligent color-coded sorting technology, we enable the recovery of a maximum amount of packaging and organic waste.
Maximizing sorting

Maximizing sorting performance to conserve resources.

  • Sorting errors are frequent when collecting or depositing recyclable materials – either through users’ lack of care, or through a lack of information.
  • We have developed an intelligent packaging sorting service that improves sorted material recovery - and therefore maximizes resale potential. It meets the requirements of environmental standards for sorting used packaging.
  • We have developed an intelligent packaging sorting service that improves sorted material recovery - and therefore maximizes resale potential. It meets the requirements of environmental standards for sorting used packaging.

Benefit-as-you-Sort (BAYS) / Pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) systems

A business model in which users are charged according to the amount of waste they produce, incentivizing reduction, and the separation of waste. BAYS or PAYT provides a direct link between waste-generating behavior and cost, as well as incentivizing recycling. The overall purpose of introducing BAYS or PAYT models is to enforce citizens to reduce and re-use waste at source through economic taxation, and subsequently, stimulate general awareness of the importance of recycling and thus, increase recycling rates and avoid landfill.
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Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) systems involve a variable waste tax whose amount is evaluated based on the quantity of waste that is produced; therefore, these systems allow for more fair taxation, benefiting the honest citizens. Every container – whether it be bags or bins – is identified, tracked and associated with citizens and companies through an effctive tracking label-based technology. Overall, label-based technology allows us to reach the highest levels of separation and the lowest levels of mixed waste production.R

How does this intelligent waste management work?

Cyclefi’ waste management system with applied technology of color-coded QR tags, consists in the following steps:
  •  A color-coded QR tag is applied to the bag or container and allows the object to be uniquely identified
  • When the "smart" container is distributed, it is uniquely associated to the users - using their ID number for instance;
  • A reading system scans and detect the tag when the waste is collected, and the collection is recorded;
  • A computer system automatically manages the various phases of data association and processing.

The enormous quantity of collected data allows us to analyse and improve the quality and the efficiency of the collection service, and modify it based on the results. 

An end-to-end waste sorting system

Cyclefi can give full support at any stage of the waste management integration, whether it be only a few aspects - such as hardware integration, software development, and QR-code tag design and production - or the complete system.

Data management is the most difficult and delicate aspect of waste management system; the whole waste management system is based on data management: from the distribution of the tags to the collection record, up to the evaluation of the waste tax. We like to think that it is the foundation of the whole system. Cyclefi develops and integrates labeling systems for the tags production line, and processes of data management for the administrations

PAYT solutions can be implemented in many different ways, but each of them does not require the operators to do any additional action; the operator can therefore work as if the collection system was plain, old-fashioned non tracked system. If the collection system is door-to-door, the reading devices could be either mobile - such as gloves, bracelets, or mobile device - or fixed, such as our truck equipment solution. If collection is done through recycling areas and dumpsters, Smart Bin is the best solution, as it allows the most control over separated waste

Such a complex management system needs adequate software to manage the data; Cyclefi cloud platform allows to achieve maximum tracking control over collected data and is accessible to any actor of the system, who can retrieve their own data. The citizen can even verify how much they are going to pay real time!