PROPOSE
An AI design agent drafts a gripper, sensor head or refiner module for the stream the swarm keeps missing. Input: the failure log, plus real scans of the pile.
WORLD 1-1 · LANDFILL
MATERIALS 09 · SWARM 05
New game · World: Earth
Any garbage. Anywhere. Back into raw material.
AnyGarbs builds swarms of AI-driven robots that find waste on the map, collect it, sort it down to the material, and recycle it into feedstock that factories buy. Garbage in. Compost, biogas, plastic, paper, steel, copper, rare earths, gold and silver out.
Quest log
THE LOOP
Every pile on the map is a level. The swarm runs the same four moves on each one, and the order matters: nothing is collected that can't be sorted, and nothing is sorted that can't be sold.
STEP 1
SCOUT
Drones and public data map every dump, ditch, bin and landfill. Each pile gets a tile with an estimated mass and material mix.
STEP 2
COLLECT
Hauler bots and trucks run routes the planner sets, by the tonne. Wet organics move first, before they rot into methane.
STEP 3
SEGREGATE
Sorter bots use vision, near-infrared and X-ray to split by material, not category. PET from HDPE. Copper from brass. Magnet from casing.
STEP 4
TRANSFORM & SELL
Modular refiners turn each stream into a graded product. A trading agent lists it, prices it and ships it to the buyer.
Inventory
WHAT COMES OUT
Nine product lines, each with a grade a buyer can put in a purchase order. Grades shown are the spec each line is built to.
COMPOST
Screened ≤ 20 mm, cured 8 weeks, pathogen-free
from food scraps, garden waste, market waste
BIOGAS
55–65 % CH₄ raw, upgradeable to biomethane
from wet organics in on-site digesters
PLASTIC
PET flake, HDPE and PP pellets, colour-sorted
from bottles, packaging, crates, film
PAPER PULP
OCC and mixed grades, de-inked, baled
from cardboard, office paper, cartons
STEEL & ALUMINIUM
Shredded, baled or cast to ingot by alloy
from cans, appliances, frames, wire
COPPER
99.9 % cathode grade after electro-refining
from cable, motors, transformers, PCBs
RARE EARTHS
Nd, Pr, Dy oxides, magnet-grade
from hard-drive, speaker and motor magnets
GOLD
≥ 99.5 % from board and connector recovery
from phones, laptops, servers, plating
SILVER
Refined granule from contact and cell recovery
from switches, solar panels, X-ray film
Party
THE SWARM
Five classes, one planner. Each bot is cheap, replaceable and specialised, and the planner treats the map as the board: every pile is a job, every bot is a piece.
SCOUT
AERIAL · MAPPING
Flies the grid, photographs piles, estimates mass and mix, tags what's new since last pass.
VISIONGRIPRANGEPAYLOAD
HAULER
GROUND · COLLECTION
Tracked, weatherproof, dumb by design. Loads at the pile, runs the route, tips at the belt.
VISIONGRIPRANGEPAYLOAD
SORTER
BELT · SEGREGATION
Vision, NIR and XRF on the head, a gripper on the arm. Sorts to material at belt speed.
VISIONGRIPRANGEPAYLOAD
REFINER
CONTAINER · PROCESSING
A shipping-container module per stream: digester, extruder, pulper, shredder, furnace, leach cell.
VISIONGRIPRANGEPAYLOAD
TRADER
SOFTWARE · SALES
An agent, not a body. Watches commodity prices, lists lots, negotiates, books freight, sends the invoice.
VISIONGRIPRANGEPAYLOAD
Research
ROBOTS THAT DESIGN ROBOTS
The swarm logs every item it fails to sort or refine. The lab turns that log into the next bot.
lab@anygarbs:~$ tail failures.log
MISS tile 41-07 · laminated tetra-pak · sorter confidence 0.31 · 1.8 t/week
MISS tile 12-22 · lithium pouch cells in bag mix · hauler halted (thermal) · 0.4 t/week
MISS tile 08-03 · fibreglass boat hull · no refiner module · 6.0 t (one-off)
lab@anygarbs:~$ propose --stream tetra-pak --target "PE-Al split, pulp out"
OK candidate: hydrapulper module v3 + eddy-current stage · sim yield 91 % · print parts: 14 · build: 9 days
SIMULATE
The candidate is run against recorded belt footage and digital twins of the piles. Yield, energy per tonne and jam rate decide if it gets built.
FIELD TEST
Parts are printed and machined, fitted to one bot, and run on a live route for two weeks. What works ships to every swarm as a firmware and parts kit.
Shop
THE MARKET
Two kinds of players. One side has garbage and wants it gone. The other side runs a mill, a smelter, a farm or a plant and wants feedstock with a paper trail.
For buyers
ORDER RAW MATERIAL FROM THE MAP
- Order any of the nine lines by the tonne, to a written grade.
- Chain of custody from the pile tile to your dock, with scans.
- Recycled-content certificates for every lot.
- Priced against the exchange, delivered by the trader agent.
For cities, landfills and sites
DEPLOY A SWARM ON YOUR PILE
- Municipal landfills, transfer stations, industrial estates, campuses, event grounds.
- Swarm arrives in containers. No new building, no new landfill cell.
- Pay per tonne diverted, offset by your share of material sales.
- Live map of what left your site and what it became.
INSERT COIN
AnyGarbs is at the start of the game: building the first swarm, the first refiner container and the first buyer contracts. If you run a pile, buy materials, build robots, or want to fund the run, press start.
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