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Jason Gates spends a lot of his time thinking about trash, and how we can generate less of it. Since 2013 his San Francisco-based startup, Compology, has used cameras and artificial intelligence to monitor what's thrown into dumpsters and trash containers at businesses such as McDonald's restaurants and Nordstrom department stores. The point is to make sure dumpsters are actually full before they're emptied and to stop recyclable materials like cardboard from being polluted by other junk so it, too, doesn't become waste.

We've found that most businesses and people have the right intentions about recycling, but oftentimes they just don't know what the proper way to recycle is, Gates, CEO of Compology, told CNN Business' Rachel Crane. To help them do it correctly, Compology puts trash-monitoring cameras and sensors inside industrial waste containers. The cameras take photos several times each day and when the container is lifted for dumping.

AI software analyzes the images to figure out how full the container is and can also let a customer know when something is where it shouldn't be, such as a bag of trash tossed into a dumpster filled with cardboard boxes for recycling. Gates said the company's cameras can cut the amount of non-recyclable materials thrown in waste containers by as much as 80%. With McDonald's dumpsters in Las Vegas, for instance, Compology's cameras and sensors showed the company was generally doing a good job recycling cardboard packaging. But occasionally garbage bags were thrown in there, too, Gates said.

Compology trained its system to sort trash with tens of millions of images, Gates said, and it uses pictures taken from within dumpsters that are now in use to get better at determining fullness and what's inside. So far, it has processed over 80 million images from the 162,000 cameras it has installed.

Over time, Gates hopes Compology can help standardize how waste is measured and reported -something that isn't currently consistent in the US. "You've been able to measure how much electricity, water, gas you've used for decades," Gates said. "What we' re doing is being able to meter how much waste you produce."

【小题1】What is the key to waste reductions?

A．Stopping polluting junk when recycling.

B．Using artificial intelligence to throw correctly.

C．Ensuring waste containers full when emptying.

D．Producing less trash to protect our surroundings.

【小题2】How do most business and people deal with trash-recycling?

A．They might classify waste containers into different categories.

B．They can be confused sometimes about proper methods of recycling.

C．They fully intend to do it and know the correct way to recycle the trash.

D．They always insist on recycling with the help of trash-monitoring cameras.

【小题3】What is the purpose of Compology's research?

A．To turn waste into treasure