Smart City Waste Management with AI Quality Detection

NANDO’s smart city waste management platform detects contamination in real time, identifies collection hotspots and optimizes routes, so municipalities can improve recycling rates and reduce costs.

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Turn urban waste data into better planning and collection strategies.

Quality monitoring
Operational efficiency
Lower emissions

WHAT PROBLEMS DOES NANDO SOLVE

Urban waste collection operates without quality visibility.

The EU waste recycling rate is 50%, far below targets. A major cause is poor waste sorting quality, which prevents proper recycling at processing plants. Collection companies empty bins without knowing if waste is properly sorted or contaminated. Without real time quality data and smart monitoring, cities and waste collection companies cannot identify problem areas, optimize collection routes for greater efficiency, leading to unnecessary waste of time and resources.

No visibility on waste quality

Collection companies have no insight into whether waste is properly sorted or contaminated with non compliant materials.

Contamination detected too late

Sorting errors only become apparent at processing facilities, when it's too costly to fix and materials must be rejected or sent to incineration plants.

No data to target interventions

Without knowing which neighborhoods or streets have quality issues, municipalities waste resources on city-wide education campaigns instead of targeted interventions where they're actually needed.

WHAT DOES NANDO OFFER

The best solutions for urban waste measurement

Real-time waste quality monitoring

Monitor waste composition, contamination levels, and sorting quality as collections happen across the entire city.

Contamination detection & mapping

Detect waste volume and weight by street, district and collection point, mapping high-production areas to optimize collection frequency.

Waste abandonment identification

Automatically detect illegal dumping and waste abandonment near street recycling centers, enabling prompt intervention to keep public spaces clean and reduce citizen complaints.

Route optimization based on volume data

Analyze fill levels and waste production data to plan dynamic routes that avoid empty bins and overflows, reducing kilometers traveled, fuel consumption and CO₂ emissions.

Data-driven citizen engagement

Use quality data to create targeted communication campaigns, showing residents how their neighborhood performs and motivating behavior change with measurable results.

Certification & compliance support

Generate reliable waste quality data to support sustainability certifications, municipal reporting requirements, and regulatory compliance with confidence.

Ready to improve urban waste quality and recycling rates?

Join leading municipalities using NANDO to monitor waste sorting quality, reduce contamination, and increase recycling effectiveness across their entire collection system.

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OUR PRODUCTS

Design better waste collection strategies for your city

NANDO.Sentinel equips municipal collection vehicles with AI-powered cameras to capture real-time data on waste quality, contamination levels and waste quantities during regular collection routes. This transforms waste collection from schedule-based to data-driven, helping cities improve recycling quality, identify problem areas, and measure the effectiveness of citizen education programs.

Cities use it to:

  • Monitor waste quality and contamination in real-time
  • Identify contamination hotspots for targeted interventions
  • Improve recycling rates with data-driven sorting insights
  • Detect waste abandonment for prompt action
  • Support planning decisions with reliable composition data
Discover NANDO.Sentinel

You know who is sorting waste. But do you know what is actually being disposed of?

A single contaminating item placed in the wrong bin can compromise the entire recycling stream, and no traditional system can detect it in real time.

NANDO.Sensor installs IoT sensors directly inside waste collection stations to analyze the quality of every disposal event. It identifies incorrect materials, contamination, and improper sorting behaviors the moment they occur.

Municipalities use it to:

  • Detect contamination at the point of disposal, rather than later at the treatment facility
  • Hold users accountable with precise data for each disposal event
  • Move from a “pay-as-you-throw” model to a “pay-as-you-sort” approach
  • Generate quality reports by district, street, or collection station
  • Support targeted educational campaigns based on real data

Cities use it to:

  • Monitor waste quality and contamination in real-time
  • Identify contamination hotspots for targeted interventions
  • Improve recycling rates with data-driven sorting insights
  • Detect waste abandonment for prompt action
  • Support planning decisions with reliable composition data
Discover NANDO.Sentinel

OUR PRODUCTS

Without NANDO

Managing urban waste on fixed schedules leads to inefficiency and waste.

Low recycling quality

Contamination goes undetected until waste reaches processing facilities, reducing recycling effectiveness and increasing costs.

Waste generation volumes

Crews drive fixed routes regardless of actual need.

Waste abandonment

Illegal dumping and informal landfills go undetected, leading to citizen complaints and degraded public spaces.

With NANDO

Complete AI-powered solution for smart urban waste collection.

Real-time insights for better recycling

AI and sensors measure waste volume, composition, and contamination during collection.

Optimized routes and lower emissions

Data-driven routes reduce fuel, avoid overflow, save time.

Prevent waste abandonment

Continuous monitoring highlights hotspots, municipalities can act proactively to keep public spaces clean.
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REAL IMPACT

Still skeptical? Hear it from them.

"
NANDO plays a pivotal role in advancing Deloitte's dedication to waste reduction and enhancing the efficiency of waste management in our offices.
Alessia Osio
Corporate Sustainability Specialist, Deloitte Italia
"
NANDO provides our clients with powerful data to enhance the sustainability agenda and move to zero-waste. Plus, NANDO empowers people to do the right thing.
Charlotte Flint
Waste Product Consultant, ISS UK
"
NANDO has significantly raised employee awareness in just two months, promoting sustainable practices through precise and seamless management.
Georgiana Craciun
Workplace & People Manager, JLL Italy
"
NANDO has increased coworkers' participation in recycling collection by forcing us to reflect on such an obvious gesture as throwing away a piece of trash.
Simone Targetti Ferri
Chief Sustainability Officer, L'Oréal
"
NANDO has revolutionized recycling collection in our offices, improving its effectiveness and creating greater awareness in the corporate community.
Giorgio Federico Strata
Open Innovation, IVECO Group
"
Together, we are improving waste management in our offices, to build more sustainable and efficient work places.
Roberto Cafferata
Head of Sustainability, ISS Italy
"
NANDO has significantly raised employee awareness in just two months, promoting sustainable practices through precise and seamless management.
Alessandro Bortoletto
Innovation Manager, City Green Light
"
NANDO is helping us out to spread in an innovative way a responsible waste management culture and in few months we have already achieved important goals.
Davide Orfanelli
Social Innovation Discipline Leader, Sisal
"
Thanks to NANDO, all visitors of I Gigli mall can correctly sort their waste, contributing to a cleaner, more sustainable environment.
Marie-Charlotte Nachury
Head of Marketing Italy, Eurocommercial
"
NANDO is the perfect cutting-edge technology partner to help with waste recovery by educating travelers and fostering circularity.
Enrico Mazzoli
Sr. Sustainability Manager, Aeroporti di Roma
"
NANDO has significantly helped our company, by redefining what it means to be sustainable and by advancing our dedication to waste reduction.
Renato Santinon
Director of Planning, Control and Innovation, Dussmann
"
NANDO is a smart and innovative way of making education in waste management sector, suggesting to users the right choice for each object to be disposed of.
Antonio Curlante
Property and Facility Director, Lavazza Group
"
NANDO plays a pivotal role in advancing Deloitte's dedication to waste reduction and enhancing the efficiency of waste management in our offices.
Alessia Osio
Corporate Sustainability Specialist, Deloitte Italia
"
NANDO provides our clients with powerful data to enhance the sustainability agenda and move to zero-waste. Plus, NANDO empowers people to do the right thing.
Charlotte Flint
Waste Product Consultant, ISS UK
"
NANDO has significantly raised employee awareness in just two months, promoting sustainable practices through precise and seamless management.
Georgiana Craciun
Workplace & People Manager, JLL Italy
"
NANDO has increased coworkers' participation in recycling collection by forcing us to reflect on such an obvious gesture as throwing away a piece of trash.
Simone Targetti Ferri
Chief Sustainability Officer, L'Oréal
"
NANDO has revolutionized recycling collection in our offices, improving its effectiveness and creating greater awareness in the corporate community.
Giorgio Federico Strata
Open Innovation, IVECO Group
"
Together, we are improving waste management in our offices, to build more sustainable and efficient work places.
Roberto Cafferata
Head of Sustainability, ISS Italy
"
NANDO has significantly raised employee awareness in just two months, promoting sustainable practices through precise and seamless management.
Alessandro Bortoletto
Innovation Manager, City Green Light
"
NANDO is helping us out to spread in an innovative way a responsible waste management culture and in few months we have already achieved important goals.
Davide Orfanelli
Social Innovation Discipline Leader, Sisal
"
Thanks to NANDO, all visitors of I Gigli mall can correctly sort their waste, contributing to a cleaner, more sustainable environment.
Marie-Charlotte Nachury
Head of Marketing Italy, Eurocommercial
"
NANDO is the perfect cutting-edge technology partner to help with waste recovery by educating travelers and fostering circularity.
Enrico Mazzoli
Sr. Sustainability Manager, Aeroporti di Roma
"
NANDO has significantly helped our company, by redefining what it means to be sustainable and by advancing our dedication to waste reduction.
Renato Santinon
Director of Planning, Control and Innovation, Dussmann
"
NANDO is a smart and innovative way of making education in waste management sector, suggesting to users the right choice for each object to be disposed of.
Antonio Curlante
Property and Facility Director, Lavazza Group

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