Accelerate waste processing with AI
Manual inspections and waste characterizations take time, expose your teams, and aren’t always reliable.
With Akanthas, inspect drop-offs safely, get precise characterizations in just a few minutes, and auto-generate usable reports.
- Optimized logistics
- Streamlined exchanges
- 100% compliant regulatory reports
- Better waste recovery
The challenges a sorting and treatment center faces
Time-consuming visual inspections
Frequent disputes
Expensive characterizations
Automate drop-off inspections
Analyze every drop-off in just a few minutes — with a single click.
Our AI automatically identifies materials, flags sorting errors, and generates a compliance record with visual evidence to objectivize reclassifications.
The result: incoming flow sorting that’s faster, more precise, and far better control over supplier quality.
Save on costs
With advanced AI-powered characterization, take full control of your characterization process while cutting treatment costs.
Characterizations run by our patented AI model are up to 5x cheaper and 10x faster than manual methods. They’re also safer for operators — since they eliminate risky manual handling.
On average, centers using Akanthas save 30 hours per month.
Back up your decisions and your data
With automatic inspection on every drop-off, reduce disputes with suppliers and justify reclassifications with visual evidence — and auto-generated compliance records.
Akanthas also lets you run an advanced characterization on one or more flows. Our AI precisely identifies every item and generates a ready-to-send compliance report.
All your data is centralized in one tool: analyses, stats, photos and documents — all stored on secure servers.
Recover more value from your flows
Correct sorting errors in drop-offs faster with contaminant identification.
Akanthas’ AI also detects recoverable materials to help you route them to the right downstream channels.
From the dashboard, track sorting performance, anomalies, flow composition, and tonnage.
More than an identification tool, Akanthas is your assistant for the sustainable improvement of your performance — with multi-site monitoring that’s uniform, precise, and complete.
Features
Features built for sorting and treatment centers
Automatic drop-off inspection
Compliance record generation
At every drop-off, a compliance record is automatically generated for the supplier — complete with visual evidence.
The result: time saved and fewer disputes.
Advanced AI characterization
With Waste Quality, run a characterization in minutes. Our AI identifies more than 60 waste types and generates a complete report:
- Mass percentage
- Volume percentage
- Object count
- Percentage of recoverable materials
- And more.
Regulatory report generation
Generate characterization reports (Decree 2021-1199, household waste reports, etc.) in a few clicks — 100% compliant with current regulatory requirements.
Reports are complete, already formatted, and ready to send.
Process
How does deployment work?
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Installation and calibration
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Training your teams
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Dedicated support
4
Usage reviews
Streamline waste identification today
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Everything you need — only what you need.
Choose the modules your business needs and never pay for features you won’t use.
A complete, tailored tool that evolves alongside your needs.
- A modular solution adapted to your needs
- A patented AI solution
- Solar-powered, self-sufficient sensors
- A dashboard accessible via the web — or connectable via API to your tools
- An intuitive mobile app
- Support with installation and onboarding
- A dedicated advisor available at all times
- Monthly review meetings
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Got a question?
Can Akanthas really adapt to a site like ours, which is very specific?
At Akanthas, we take the time to understand every site. No two customers operate the same way — and our approach has nothing standardized about it.
We provide you with smart sensors, then adapt them to your constraints, your flows, and your objectives.
We don’t offer a fixed model — we offer a solution that genuinely adjusts to your reality on the ground.
Why choose Akanthas when visual characterization is cheaper?
It’s true that visual characterization can look cheaper upfront — especially when your teams are experienced.
But this method stays subjective, untraceable, and irregular — which increases the risk of errors, disputes, and unjustified reclassifications. With Akanthas, every characterization is: automated; reliable; documented.
You eliminate subjectivity, save time, secure your processes, and have defensible evidence on hand in case of a dispute or inspection.
And once you factor in the indirect costs tied to errors, reclassifications, and unusable data, the automated solution often becomes significantly more economical over the medium term.
How does your AI actually compare to all the ones we hear about today?
AI has become a very heavily-used term — sometimes too much so.
What matters is what it actually brings on the ground. At Akanthas, our AI is integrated into an operational solution, tested across different flow types (sorting, bulky waste, household waste, and more), with real adaptability to your specific context.
We share data, results, photos, and model evolution. And we build that evolution with you. It’s this transparent, collaborative way of working that turns our customers into real long-term partners.
If our teams are already doing a good job, what can your solution still bring?
Already having good results is a real strength — and it’s exactly what lets a solution like ours take things further.
We don’t replace people — we free up their time, strengthen data reliability, and reinforce traceability.
Even with strong teams, there’s always value in automating repetitive tasks, getting alerts when needed, and having objective evidence on hand in case of doubt or inspection.
That’s what makes the difference over time — especially as customer expectations, contract requirements, and regulations keep ratcheting up.
Can your solution instantly analyze flows in a sorting center?
Our solution automatically analyzes incoming flows the moment they arrive at the sorting center. It identifies non-compliant drop-offs, documents anomalies, and guarantees full traceability in case of a reclassification.
This approach lets you secure the quality of incoming loads and have objective visual evidence on hand for discussions with suppliers.
We go further by helping you durably improve at-source sorting. With our analysis data, we support your teams, your clients, and your members — to correct recurring errors, train on better practices, and drive overall sorting performance forward.
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