WasteID is the AI vision capability inside Wastify AI. Point it at an item and it identifies the item, brand and material, tells you whether it is recyclable, whether rinsing is required, and which stream it should go in. Point it at a bag and it audits the contents.

What does a WasteID audit report contain?

Item groups found in the sample with estimated gram weights, the share that was correctly segregated, which stream each misplaced item should have gone to and why, a six month trend, and practical recommendations. Reports export as PDF for audits and tenant conversations.

How is WasteID different from a manual waste audit?

A manual audit is a snapshot by a consultant once or twice a year. WasteID audits continuously from photos taken in the normal flow of work, so contamination is caught the week it starts rather than at the annual review.

Can WasteID help tenants segregate better?

Yes. The scan flow gives an instant, item level answer at the bin, and audit findings name the specific items being misplaced, which turns a vague ask into a one line instruction for each tenant.

WasteID

Point a camera at waste. Get a decision back.

WasteID is the AI layer of the platform: item recognition that tells anyone which bin, and photographic audits that score a whole bin in grams, item by item, with the fix written underneath. It began life as a product in its own right; now it is inside every Wastify AI building.

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Any phone, no app
Scored in grams
PDF in seconds
Alerts at thresholds

16:545G

identifying…

Plastic water bottle

3 parts

Material

PET / HDPE / film

Recyclable

Partly

Rinsing required

Yes

Suggested stream

Mixed Recycling

Bottle body · PETMixed Recycling
Cap · HDPEMixed Recycling
Label · plastic filmGeneral Waste

The film label contaminates the recycling stream, so it is the part that gets flagged. Contamination happens at component level; so does the guidance.

any phone · any browser · no app

Fig. 1WasteID Scan: component-level guidance on any phone.

Anatomy of an audit

One photograph becomes a consultant-grade report.

An audit is not a score, it is an argument. The report identifies every item group in the photograph, counts it, estimates its weight in grams, and says where each misplaced item should have gone and why: paper cups to the Coffee Cups stream, film to Soft Plastic, the banana peel to Food Waste. A chart shows where the contamination would have gone if sorted; a trend shows the same space and stream over the last six months.

Then it tells you what to do: numbered, operational recommendations, from moving the Coffee Cups bin next to the coffee machine to putting scrunch-test guidance beside the vending point, with a follow-up audit booked in two to four weeks. That is the work a waste consultant bills days for, generated in seconds and consistent between auditors, because the auditor is the same model every time.

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Audit report

One Harbourgate · Fenwick Legal · General Waste

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Item groups

2 correct · 10 misplaced

Contamination

79.2%

of audited contents

Total weight

~236 g

from item counts and weights

Contaminated

~187 g

recoverable if separated

Misplaced items by target stream

Where these items should have gone

Mixed Recycling40%4 items
Soft Plastic20%2 items
Food Waste20%2 items
Coffee Cups10%1 item
Compostables10%1 item

Audit history & trend

Average contamination, same space and stream

61%Apr

53%May

80%Jun

83%Jul

67%Aug

10 audits counted in trendalert fired at the 20% threshold

Items identified

10 misplaced

misplaced
Disposable paper cups (hot drink cups)
×3 · 12 g eachshould go to Coffee Cups
Paper cups belong in the dedicated Coffee Cups stream; in General Waste the fibre is lost to recycling.
misplaced
Plastic drink bottle (clear, likely PET)
×1 · 25 gshould go to Mixed Recycling
Empty PET bottles are accepted in Mixed Recycling; keeping them out of residual waste cuts disposal cost.
misplaced
Soft plastic wrappers and film
×3 · 2 g eachshould go to Soft Plastic
Film scrunches; rigid does not. The scrunch test on signage is the fix, and the Soft Plastic bin the destination.
misplaced
Banana peel
×1 · 35 gshould go to Food Waste
Food scraps route to anaerobic digestion via the Food Waste bin, not to residual.

+ 6 more item groups in the full report2 correctly sorted

Recommendations

8 actions

01Move the Coffee Cups bin next to the coffee machine, with signage showing the exact cup used on site.
02Add scrunch-test guidance beside vending points: soft plastics scrunch, rigid plastics do not.
03Introduce a daily bin-top check in breakout areas before liners are tied off.
04Repeat the audit in 2 to 4 weeks, focused on the coffee point, and track the diverted weight.

Generated from one photograph, alongside the PDFalerts sent to tenant and building manager

The audit report, rebuilt from a real one.

The loop

Guidance in, accountability out.

Every space carries its own QR and PIN
Scan access, audit permissions and quotas are configured per floor and per tenant, so guidance reaches the people at that exact bin.
Audits feed the contamination board
Scores land against bin, stream, floor and tenant, and the board tracks them against your thresholds.
Alerts close the loop
High contamination notifies the tenant and building manager the moment it is scored, not in next month’s report.
Recharging feels the difference
Under weight-based recharging, the tenant whose contamination falls pays less. The guidance and the incentive point the same way.

Three surfaces, one intelligence

Scan. Kiosk. Audit.

WasteID Scan, for everyone.
Scan the QR at the bin station or open the browser link: no app, any phone. Photograph an item and the AI returns what it is, its material, whether it is recyclable, whether it needs a rinse, and the stream it belongs in, component by component. The label that contaminates gets flagged; the guidance is instant.
WasteID Kiosk, for zero friction.
The same recognition mounted at the bin station: hold the item up, the screen shows which bin, part by part, and resets for the next person. No phone, no QR, nothing to learn. Deployed at any or all stations, wherever contamination actually happens.
WasteID Audit, for accountability.
Staff enter a PIN, photograph a bin, and the AI takes it from there: every item group identified and counted, weights estimated in grams, contamination scored, and a shareable PDF generated. When the score crosses the threshold you set, the tenant and the building manager are alerted automatically.

Questions

WasteID, answered

What is WasteID?: WasteID is the AI vision capability inside Wastify AI. Point it at an item and it identifies the item, brand and material, tells you whether it is recyclable, whether rinsing is required, and which stream it should go in. Point it at a bag and it audits the contents.
What does a WasteID audit report contain?: Item groups found in the sample with estimated gram weights, the share that was correctly segregated, which stream each misplaced item should have gone to and why, a six month trend, and practical recommendations. Reports export as PDF for audits and tenant conversations.
How is WasteID different from a manual waste audit?: A manual audit is a snapshot by a consultant once or twice a year. WasteID audits continuously from photos taken in the normal flow of work, so contamination is caught the week it starts rather than at the annual review.
Can WasteID help tenants segregate better?: Yes. The scan flow gives an instant, item level answer at the bin, and audit findings name the specific items being misplaced, which turns a vague ask into a one line instruction for each tenant.

Bring a photo of your worst bin.

We will run it through WasteID live and hand you the report.

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