Overview Carbon Water Waste Ecosystems Appendix 54 Enabling systems change (continued) Investing in AI Machine learning to prevent ocean plastics Through our AI for Earth program we are supporting startups and non-profits using cloud, data, and The Ocean Cleanup is known worldwide for its AI to accelerate the pace of innovation in waste, innovative efforts to rid the ocean of plastics. It has including the following projects: also started focusing on eliminating plastics at major Citizen science + AI = waste reduction sources—rivers— before they reach the sea. The Sustainable Coastlines Charitable Trust is using Azure organization deployed plastic-removal technology in and AI tools to enhance its groundbreaking Litter rivers in Indonesia and Malaysia to remove plastics, Intelligence program, enabling communities around and a key aspect of this work was figuring out how to Aoeteroa, New Zealand to collect litter data, gain insights, identify the waste that was floating down the river—is and take action for a litter-free world. The non-profit it plastic or other material? For two Microsoft global hosts its citizen science technology platform and Learning Hackathons, in 2018 and 2019, team members in Management System on Azure, while scaling and Redmond and from around the world worked with improving data quality by deploying machine learning The Ocean Cleanup to build a machine learning techniques and computer vision to train its litter model to help quantify the amount of plastic pollution classification and count model. Litter Intelligence has flowing down rivers en route to the ocean. established the country΄s first official marine litter Subsequent models were then developed to replicate database, and for the first time is enabling citizen science the process on cameras mounted to drones and ships to be used at the highest levels of government reporting. crossing the ocean, and a blueprint for cloud computing infrastructure was created to help the Computer vision to detect waste project in the future. Recycleye has developed a computer vision system that replicates the power of human vision to identify every item in waste streams, using AI to automate waste sorting and improve recycling. The organization recognized the huge issue of waste management and the importance of accelerating the transition towards a circular economy. It is using deep learning and AI advancements with a low cost, rapidly deployable, decentralized, scalable, and fully automated sorting solution which can be deployed inside waste management facilities. Their goal is to create waste removal chains that are just as efficient as today΄s supply chains, bringing transparency, accountability, and traceability to the waste management industry. The Ocean Cleanup focuses on efforts to rid the ocean of plastics.