Sustainability Insights from Plastic Usage in Fresh Produce

Plastic waste continues to be a major concern for retailers, regulators, and consumers - but measuring progress is difficult. Traditional audits are time-consuming, limited in scope, and miss the nuances of real-world behaviour.

Tiliter’s Vision AI Agents automatically analyse checkout footage to classify the type of bags used for fresh produce:

• Single-use plastic bags
• Reusable mesh or cloth bags
• Paper bags
• No bag at all

By processing hundreds or thousands of transactions per day, our solution uncovers high-resolution trends in bag usage across time, store format, product category, and even pricing campaigns.

Whether you’re trialling a plastic bag levy, reporting on sustainability KPIs, or planning store-wide education campaigns, Vision AI delivers the data you need - without manual labour or survey bias.

Retailers can use these insights to:

• Benchmark plastic reduction across regions
• Track adoption of alternative bags over time
• Understand where behaviour changes are (or aren't) happening
• Inform future packaging policies or incentives

Already in use across the world, Tiliter’s Vision AI Agents provide teams with a powerful lens into previously invisible sustainability metrics - all using existing camera infrastructure.