Building data connections between people, cities, and producers
EarthSort helps residents recycle correctly while giving cities clearer visibility into what materials cause confusion.
Our AI-powered app helps people sort waste correctly and highlights what people are trying to recycle — revealing which materials cause the most confusion and how those questions differ across communities. Combined with our growing city and provider dataset, these insights help cities, producers, and EPR partners improve recycling communication and design.
We collaborate with municipalities, haulers, and circular-economy organizations to connect individual action to system-wide impact. For teams managing recycling programs, packaging data, or sustainability initiatives, EarthSort offers a scalable foundation for understanding what's being recycled, where, and how.
EarthSort does not change your recycling rules. It helps residents follow them.
EarthSort combines proven consumer technology with an expanding data foundation that helps cities, haulers, and producers understand recycling performance at a local level. We are expanding multilingual support to help cities meet evolving communication requirements. Our focus is reliable, privacy-conscious infrastructure that supports real-world recycling programs and EPR efforts.
If your organization shares our vision for smarter, data-driven recycling, we'd love to explore ways to work together.
Helping communities recycle right
Reduce contamination at the point of disposal by giving residents guidance tied to local provider rules. Using aggregated insights from the app, cities and haulers can better understand what materials cause confusion in their communities. Co-branded or embedded versions of EarthSort help reduce contamination and improve recycling rates without new infrastructure.
Turning insights into action
EarthSort’s growing city and provider dataset supports circular-economy initiatives by revealing how recycling behavior differs across regions. These insights help identify material gaps, improve consumer communication, and strengthen data transparency across the recycling system.
Data for extended producer responsibility
As producers adapt to EPR requirements, EarthSort’s provider-level data helps verify what materials are actually accepted and recovered in each region. We’re building toward a more consistent, data-driven view of packaging recovery across local recycling systems.
If your organization manages recycling programs, packaging data, or sustainability initiatives, we'd love to connect.
Interested in a short, low-risk pilot in your community? Reach out.