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A cruise ship is, among other things, a small floating city – and like any city, it generates waste that has to be managed somewhere with far less room than a land-based facility.
Through its subsidiary ETIA, Vow ASA has partnered with PICVISA to bring automated waste sorting to cruise ships and passenger vessels – an environment with its own constraints around space, motion and the variety of waste generated on board.
Combining ETIA's experience in onboard waste processing with PICVISA's optical sorting and robotics technology lets the partnership address both halves of the problem – treating waste on board and sorting it accurately enough that more of it can be recovered rather than simply disposed of at port.
Streamlining in this context means reducing the manual handling of waste in a constrained space, while still achieving the separation needed to maximise recovery – a combination that automated sorting is well suited to, given the limited crew time available for manual sorting tasks.
On a vessel, a robot like ECOPICK doesn't get seasick, doesn't need breaks, and performs the same sorting task regardless of how busy the rest of the crew is – advantages that matter even more in an environment where every crew member's time is already accounted for.
Get in touch with our team to discover how PICVISA's optical sorting and robotics solutions can fit your recycling operation.