The future of recycling is glacier
AI + Robotics Built for Recycling
Unbeatable ROI through automation for MRFs
Real-time, item-level visibility for brands
About Glacier
At Glacier, we build next-generation robots that make recycling efficient, profitable, and circular. Our systems combine AI vision with robotics to recover more materials at lower cost.
We partner with MRFs and brands to deliver real-world results: cleaner streams, higher-value commodities, and verified impact across facilities nationwide.
Our mission is simple—end waste by ensuring nothing valuable ends up in a landfill.
Glacier Robots + AI Brand Intelligence
The future of recycling
Compact robots built to recover plastics, film and flexibles, paper, OCC, and metals
AI models trained on billions of real recycling images.
Real-time dashboards for item-level visibility.
What Customers Are Saying
Glacier’s robots helped us boost throughput without adding headcount. The ROI was faster than any other solution we’ve tested.
Mike CSAPO
GM, RRRASOC
What excites me most is how Glacier’s robots are not only enhancing our recycling efficiency and cutting down on contamination but also providing our team with a safer work environment.
SAlvatore Coniglio
CEO, Recology
[Glacier Brand Intelligence] gives us actionable data, not just snapshots.
Greg Gorra
Senior Vice President, Global Packaging,
Colgate-Palmolive
Case Studies
For Brands
For MRFS
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Latest Posts
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Penn Waste installs Glacier’s technology
Check out our coverage in Recycling Today and Waste360 We’re proud to announce our latest deployment with Waste Connections and Cox Enterprises…
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Glacier Included in Time “Best Inventions” 2025
When we finished installing our very first recycling robot, our founders Rebecca Hu-Thrams and Areeb Malik worked 20 hours straight through the…
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Fast Company: Most toothpaste tubes are recyclable. So why is nobody recycling them?
Writer Adele Peters answers this question for FastCompany in the article here. We’ve pasted the beginning of the story for your convenience,…