AMP’s AI-powered facility runs approximately 25 tons per hour with more than 90% uptime—an unprecedented level of reliability with a footprint that hasn’t previously been feasible economically. Equipped with this system, the Portsmouth transfer station in which it is operating is capable of diverting more than half of landfill-bound material for further processing with organics management and mixed recyclables sorting systems. And that’s today—we have innovations and upgrades coming that will push the number even higher.
These performance metrics are significant, given the cost to sort mixed waste is $175/ton. Legacy operations typically have uptimes below 70%, with many more sorters and support staff, and rarely achieve their diversion targets.
In November 2025, the Southeastern Public Service Authority of Virginia (“SPSA”), the regional waste authority for South Hampton Roads, finalized a 20-year contract with AMP to provide solid waste processing services for SPSA’s eight member communities and their 1.2 million residents.
This contract is the culmination of the two-year pilot project in Portsmouth, and AMP will now scale its technology region-wide. Under this long-term partnership, which will facilitate the largest recycling project in the country, AMP will deploy additional MSW sortation lines and an organics management system capable of processing 540,000 tons annually to divert half of the waste SPSA brings to AMP facilities.
