**5.1 Waste pre-processing**

Pre-sorting of waste enables the collection of some waste fractions to be recycled, and those that cannot be recycled be transformed to electricity, as well as production of value added products. Research breakthrough comprises of characterization approaches for high-precision sorting such as the development of max AI recycling robot. The system can work safely alongside people in the system, which allows the Max-AI robotic sorter to be placed into existing material recovery facilities or newly built waste to energy facilities where waste as received from the society is sorted before either recycle, reuse or converted to energy.
