At Packaging World’s recent Packaging Recycling Summit, one of the themes woven throughout the conference was the need for data, which is notoriously sparse in the recycling world. But there is one technology in particular that has emerged over the last several years that may provide the key to unlock that vital information: Artificial Intelligence.
As proof of its potential, Rebecca Hu, founder and CEO of AI and robotics company Glacier, shared the stage with two of the company’s high-profile customers—Colgate-Palmolive and Amazon—to illustrate how AI is capturing data “not only for data’s sake, but to empower everyone who’s thinking about how to enable circularity to do so much more quickly and much more efficiently,” Hu explained.
