Space junk, food waste, trash, and water leaks are all ways to rethink an industry’s purpose. However, it’s up to people to make the final call and change the systems in place to make the most out of the way we produce. It’s Up To Individuals & Organizations To Turn Insights Into ActionĪrtificial Intelligence can analyze, predict, and recommend action. That’s a technology that’s good for the budget and the environment. One company reported that WINT reduced its water consumption by 24%. That 25% of water wasted due to leaks? Not for companies who use artificial intelligence. WINT’s AI continually learns and adapts to a company’s water network to optimize leak and waste detection. WINT does this by using pattern matching to detect water leaks. Water intelligence company, WINT, developed an AI to detect and stop leaks at the source. Unfortunately, more than 25% of water is wasted due to leaks - and that’s in commercial buildings alone. The bad news is that water is a finite resource, but happily, it also happens to be renewable. When the satellite reaches a debris cloud, it “would splay out a web of space-grade polymeric foam arms which, according to StartRocket, can capture as much as a ton of space junk.” The orbital drag of the foamed junk would pull the mass towards Earth, burning up in the atmosphere.

StartRocket wants to deploy a satellite called Foam Debris Catcher. The startup StartRocket has a plan to remove debris using foam. There are approximately “1000 comets and space debris” which pose a real danger to life on Earth.ĭetecting space junk is one thing but removing it from orbit is another. NASA created the Deep Asteroid challenge, inviting participants to use machine learning to help humans “avoid the same fate as the dinosaurs.” Asteroids aren’t the only Near Earth Object that can come in contact with Earth.

That’s where AI and technology companies are coming together to tackle space’s biggest problem. Space debris poses a danger to astronauts navigating orbit, the network of communication and weather satellites, and future space missions. According to the European Space Agency, 129 million pieces of debris hurtle around Earth. But what if we can’t launch into the final frontier because there’s too much junk in the way for humans to leave Earth’s orbit? Space junk is a serious worry for many scientists. They blast off into orbit while leaving robots like Wall-E to clean up the mess.

Other scifi movies often depict humans escaping Earth when it is no longer inhabitable. Greyparrot AI does more than bring waste management into the 21st century, it opens the door to AI applications to less well-known sectors of the economy, making our future circular instead of dystopian. The startup was recently named by The Europas Tech Startup Awards as the hottest startup in Climate Tech/Green Tech startup of 2020. Not to mention the opportunities to partner with smart bins and sorting robots. AI can turn the 1% of waste that is monitored and analyzed into 100%. Their system “automatically identifies different types of waste, providing composition information and analytics to help facilities increase recycling rates.” AI is easy to scale and provides real-time insight and analysis into facilities. The artificial intelligence vision can spot items on a conveyer belt faster and with better accuracy than a human. Greyparrot AI helps companies work in a circular economy by highlighting inefficiencies in sorting and waste facilities.

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