Greyparrot
About us
Greyparrot (greyparrot.ai) is the AI waste intelligence company. It turns every object on a recycling line into data, so the people who recover, regulate and design materials can make decisions based on what is actually in the waste stream.
Greyparrot Analyzer units sit above sorting lines and identify more than 115 waste categories across seven layers of data, including material, brand, financial value and GHG emissions. Greyparrot Sync feeds that data into facility machinery and software, and the OEE dashboard turns it into a live measure of plant performance. Deepnest gives brands, retailers and packaging producers real-world evidence of how their packaging is recovered.
Greyparrot runs 300+ live systems in 20+ countries. It analysed more than 52 billion waste objects in 2025 and passed one trillion waste detections in 2026. In the first quarter of 2026, the UK Environment Agency accepted Greyparrot data in statutory compliance submissions for the first time. Customers and partners include Veolia, Suez, Biffa, FCC Environment and Bollegraaf. Greyparrot has raised $60 million to date and aims to help abate more than one million tonnes of waste by 2030.
Greyparrot is recognised as:
- UK Green Business Awards 2026
- Awards for Excellence 2026
- TIME Best Inventions 2025
- Fast Company Most Innovative Companies 2025
- Fast Company World Changing Ideas 2025
- Sifted 100 2025
- Global Cleantech 100 2025
- CB Insights AI 100 2024
- MRW National Recycling Awards 2024, 2023 & 2022
- PWC “NetZero Future 50” 2022
- World Economic Forum “Tech Pioneer” 2021
- WIRED “Europe's 100 Hottest Startups” 2021
