SmartAudit shows you where you’re missing out on recycling opportunities.
Use the power of AI to analyse the contents of your bins, fast. SmartAudit identifies contamination issues and provides insight into missed recycling opportunities. It replaces costly, labour-intensive manual audits with intelligence that makes reporting and improvement planning easy.
AI-powered insight eclipses labour-intensive manual audits
Find out what’s holding back your recycling performance.
How SmartAudit works
Using a smartphone or tablet, a Recorra Consultant scans the contents of a representative sample of bins on your site. AI-powered analysis then delivers detailed insights, including a clear contamination analysis that shows you which materials are interfering with your recycling rates. Our Sustainability Consultant then creates a bespoke audit and uploads it to the MyRecorra reporting portal.
What it does
Who it’s for
Why teams use it
SmartAudit shows you what is really happening across your sites.
With accurate, AI-driven visibility into what is really happening in your bins, you can focus on the changes that matter most: boosting recycling rates, reducing contamination, and demonstrating compliant waste management.
SmartAudit Super Charges Recycling Rates at Lakeside Shopping Centre
Lakeside is one of the UK’s largest retail destinations, with multiple service yards and complex waste flows. Traditional manual audits made it difficult to understand what was really happening across such a large site, limiting the centre’s ability to improve recycling performance at scale.
Using the efficiency of SmartAudit, Recorra Consultants were able to audit every single service yard across the 240,000 m² site. Bin contents were scanned on site using AI-powered analysis, delivering consistent, high-quality data without disruption to operations.
The results revealed a clear opportunity: across most service yards, large volumes of recyclable material were being placed into general waste bins. Clothing hangers were prevalent in general waste collections, allowing valuable plastic to routinely go to waste.
Armed with this knowledge, Recorra Consultants developed a bespoke action plan for Lakeside that added recycling collection points and clear signage to strategic areas.
Within just two months, clean recycling collection increased by almost two-thirds. From October-2025 to May-2026, 53,165kg of plastic coat hangers were recycled and kept in the circular economy. Considering the impact of virgin plastic reduction on supply chains, this meant the site saved approximately 185,000kg of CO2 in this short period of time.
These improvements positioned Lakeside as a leader in practical, data-driven recycling performance across large retail environments. They have already been recognised across several green business award categories for their work. They plan to continue optimising their site using the power of SmartSystems technology.
See for yourself.
Talk to our team today to see what more you can achieve with SmartAudit technology supporting your business.