Did you miss us at the Plastics Recycling Conference last month? Fret not! Resource Recycling, Inc. published a great summary of takeaways from the plenary session on AI in plastics recycling, featuring insights from Glacier's founder, Rebecca Hu. https://lnkd.in/gbQ8nwrq
Glacier
Climate Technology Product Manufacturing
San Francisco, CA 10,812 followers
Technology to end waste
About us
Glacier's mission is to end waste. Sound ambitious? We agree. But the UN estimates that we only have until 2030 to change our consumption patterns before we do irreversible damage to the environment, so we’re of the opinion that now is the time for big bets. We’re starting in the world of recycling, which has a huge opportunity for impact. Americans send 1.4 million tons of waste to recycling facilities every week (that’s about 4 Empire State Buildings, or 1.5 Golden Gate Bridges). We’re also really bad at it: 25% of what we put in our recycling bins isn’t even recyclable. These recycling facilities make a living by sorting our jumbled-up waste and they need to do it cheaply and accurately. Otherwise they go out of business and our recycling goes straight to the landfill. Even so, recycling facilities today use processes that are highly manual, expensive, and error prone. We plan to revolutionize the way these facilities use technology, to make them more streamlined, accurate, and profitable - which means more recyclables avoid the landfill, and more of our natural resources are protected. Our growing team draws from the brightest and most passionate professionals across robotics, manufacturing, software, AI, and market strategy. We’re united by our deep-rooted passion to make a big environmental impact, and we’re looking for other mission-driven, creative thinkers to help us right the ship on this truly global issue.
- Website
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http://endwaste.io
External link for Glacier
- Industry
- Climate Technology Product Manufacturing
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
Locations
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Primary
San Francisco, CA 94103, US
Employees at Glacier
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Abe Murray
General Partner, AlleyCorp | Deep Tech, Advanced Manufacturing, Aerospace, Robotics 🤖 🦾
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Ann Bordetsky
Partner at NEA
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Dan Kennedy
Engineer and Manager | Passionate about climate, waste, and energy systems
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Ting Zhang
B2B Growth Executive | Climate Tech | Culture & Inclusion Advocate
Updates
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Whether you're a policy nerd, climate tech enthusiast, or just a big fan of Kal Penn, tune in for the Elemental Interactive livestream today at 3:30pm PT! Glacier's founder Rebecca Hu will be onstage sharing her views on Glacier's mission, our work with Elemental Excelerator, and what's next for AI in the recycling industry. https://lnkd.in/giVnYcKw
5 things to know about the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, in 1 minute! Spoiler alert: #5 is that you can learn more about all of this by tuning into Elemental Interactive livestream at 3:30 PT today. It’s our climate “late show,” hosted by comedian, actor, and policy wonk(!) Kal Penn! We’ll have a keynote note conversation between Laurene Powell Jobs and Tom Steyer, 6 entrepreneurs on the hot seat in late show-style interviews with Kal, and 2 fantastic musical acts. Join us! https://lnkd.in/gwr42iJc
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We're proud to announce our participation in the 100+ Accelerator. This is a powerful opportunity for us to drive the circular economy forward by bringing Glacier's recycling technology to some of the biggest brands in the world, including Colgate-Palmolive, The Coca-Cola Company, and AB InBev! cc Anne Bedarf Brian McEnroe Gary Binstock Adam Spunberg Maisie Devine Sherman Liam Vita Molun Zhang Jim Velky Jerome Labie
🌱 Welcome Cohort 5! We're thrilled to announce the 32 startups joining our accelerator program! At 100+ Accelerator, we believe that collaboration is key to driving meaningful change. Together with our corporate partners AB InBev, Colgate-Palmolive, The Coca-Cola Company, and Unilever, we're dedicated to providing our startups with resources, mentorship, expertise, and opportunities to scale their innovations. Most importantly, the startups have the opportunity to pilot their solution within a global supply chain supported by dedicated teams from each of the 100+ corporate partners. With Cohort 5, we'll explore new frontiers as we move forward in our commitment to address some of the most critical challenges facing our planet, foster positive change, and pave the way for a more sustainable future. Let's seize this opportunity, embrace collaboration, and work together to create a better world. Welcome the startups that will join us in accelerating our sustainable tomorrow! #AcceleratingOurSustainableTomorrow #DriversOfChange 🌍 #100Accelerator Aequales Aequales LATAM AgriSound Aqua Membranes, Inc. Bintix Blackburn Energy, Inc. BUYO Bioplastics Canovation carbmee Carbon eBook CombineSettings.com Chloris Geospatial Digimind GmbH DCARB - Hydrogen Solutions Doctor Scrap Energy Generation Africa FieldFactors Glacier gluECO Adhesives, LLC Kaffe Bueno IIT-IIT MAGNOTHERM Membrion, Inc. O2eco Queen of Raw SolCold SWAN Systems The Supplant Company TOOPI ORGANICS TreaTech Ulula Wareclouds Yo-Waste
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Glacier's mission to end waste is an ambitious goal: only 21% of residential recyclables in the US are currently recycled. Today marks a significant milestone toward our waste-free future. We're proud to announce that we’ve raised $7.7 million in new funding, with support from a phenomenal group of investors including Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), AlleyCorp, Overture , Elemental Excelerator, and VSC Ventures. Alongside the investment, Amazon is announcing a commercial pilot program with Glacier as part of its efforts to understand and improve the recyclability of its packaging – underscoring our shared commitment to reducing landfill waste and fostering a circular economy. With our AI-powered robots at the forefront, Glacier is helping to promote a more sustainable planet and rescue billions of dollars of raw materials every year from our landfills and oceans. 🤖🌍 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gJv84r79 https://lnkd.in/gF3hHUTa #robotics #ai #climatechange #CircularEconomy #recycling CC: Nick Ellis, Phoebe Wang, Katie Larsen, Marisa LaRocca, Ann Bordetsky Andrew Schoen, Mason Murray, Abe Murray, Brannon Jones, Shaun Ng, Dawn Lippert, Shomik Dutta, Michael O'Neil, Vijay Chattha, Jay Kapoor, Maggie Philbin
How Amazon’s latest Climate Pledge Fund investment is transforming recycling through AI and robotics
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We're proud to announce our AI project with Colgate-Palmolive, Haleon, and Mazza Recycling Services to start tracking toothpaste tubes in the recycling stream. This is a critical part of a larger effort to understand and improve recycling rates for key materials!
Today we mark America Recycles Day. At Haleon, we strongly believe in the power of partnerships and industry collaboration in driving improvements which take us a step closer to creating a more sustainable world. No single company can make a real difference on its own so we were thrilled to see Haleon’s Joseph Muscat present at #spcadvance recently alongside Anne Bedarf from Colgate-Palmolive, sharing our joint toothpaste tubes recycling project with Mazza Recycling Services and Glacier that’s underway in New Jersey, US. We know that enabling better processes for handling recyclable materials across waste management facilities is just one part of the jigsaw puzzle in driving true circularity. That’s why the project is also working with the wider value chain and community recycling programmes to understand how to encourage positive behaviours towards the disposal of recyclable packaging as well as trialling the use of a ground-breaking AI model that can accurately detect toothpaste tubes in recycling facilities in real time. All of these pieces can help drive more effective collection, sorting and processing of recyclable packaging.
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Our founder Rebecca Hu is presenting at #SPCAdvance2023 next week. She'll be sharing her thoughts on the role of AI and automation in designing a more circular economy. Will you be there? Let us know!
🎤 I'm taking the stage at #SPCAdvance2023 next week! ♻️ I'll be presenting on how Glacier's AI is helping major CPG brands, governments, and recyclers to advance transparency in recycling and packaging design. 📝 Will you be at #SPCAdvance? Know any attendees I should meet? Please comment or message me! Thank you to the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) for inviting me to share more about Glacier's mission to end waste!