Medical waste sorted
correctly, right from the ship.

A floating hospital serves islands that ordinary waste-transport routes never reach. CircularLearn.ai helps staff sort medical waste where it is produced, then builds the compliance report from that same data.

What has to be recognised every day

Six classes, six containers, six colours — as the regulation sets them.

Infectious
Yellow bag
Sharps
Safety box
Pharmaceutical
Brown bag
Cytotoxic
Purple bag
Radioactive
Red container
Domestic
Black bag

The problem is not intent — it is distance.

Sorting cannot wait

Medical waste has to be sorted as it is produced. Once it is mixed, sorting it again is far more dangerous for staff — and often is simply no longer done.

The collector does not come every week

The ship sails for days to islands that no licensed waste-transport route passes. The waste waits on board, and it has to wait correctly.

The report still has to be written

The recap for the environment agency is usually rewritten from paper notes weeks after the event — by which time whoever writes it has forgotten the details.

What this system does

AI-assisted sorting

Staff photograph the waste; the system proposes its class together with the container and colour it belongs in. A proposal can always be corrected by a person, and the correction is recorded.

Compliance reporting

The monthly recap is built from scans that actually happened — not retyped from a separate note that can no longer be checked.

Works at sea

Designed for a ship that spends days without a signal, and for the phone in a staff member's pocket — not for a server room.

Honest figures

Weighed mass, estimated mass and unmeasured mass are kept apart in every report. Anything that cannot yet be defended is marked empty rather than guessed.

Measured on three sides

This system's success is not measured by how many photos come in, but by three things that change in the field.

People

The safety and skill of the staff handling the waste, and the involvement of the communities around the service area.

Planet

Waste routed into the correct handling path, and the emissions avoided as a result.

Profit

The cost of handling the waste, and the value recoverable from waste that can still be processed.

Where it stands today

The system is running and usable, but the field trial on the ship has not started.

The figures shown come from the scans recorded in this system. Field results from the ship are reported once the field trial begins.

Stage: Development · preparing the field trial
Area: Kei Islands, Southeast Maluku
Field partner: doctorSHARE — Floating Hospital
Funding: SINERGI grant

For the team, partners and regulators

Staff scan on the ship, managers compile the report, and the regulator receives figures that can be traced back to the original photograph. All through the same single door.

Medical waste sorted correctly, right from the ship.