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Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority (CCRRA) in Pennsylvania One of the projects we're most proud of right now is on the other side of the world from our Auckland base — a curbside recycling automation upgrade we delivered for Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority (CCRRA) in Pennsylvania, together with our North American partner, Sparta Manufacturing. Who is CCRRA? CCRRA runs a genuinely impressive curbside collection program. In 2024 alone they processed over

Sparta Manufacturing is our distributor and systems integrator for SureSort across North America — bringing Alchemy's optical sorting technology into Sparta's single-stream recycling systems for municipalities and MRFs across the continent. Why this partnership works Sparta has spent decades designing and building recycling systems in North America, with deep relationships across municipal and private MRFs of all sizes. Rather than treating SureSort as an add-on, Sparta integ

SureSort lanes with auger-based hopper system, installed at a Wellington MRF When a Wellington Material Recovery Facility decided it was time to move beyond manual container sorting, they turned to Alchemy for a turnkey retrofit — and the result is one of our clearest demonstrations yet of what SureSort can do. The challenge The facility was relying on manual sorters to pick containers off the line by hand — labour-intensive, inconsistent on busy days, and a ceiling on how mu

SureSort takes a different approach to optical sorting: instead of one machine per commodity, each lane identifies and sorts every recyclable that passes through it. Here's a short video showing the system in action, with a walkthrough of what you're looking at below. What's happening on screen By the time material reaches SureSort, upstream processes in the MRF have already stripped out cardboard, fibre, and other incompatible material from the stream — what's left going int