Ben Adelson

Ben Adelson

Co-founder @ Plutou
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In 2017, I started asking a question I couldn't let go of: why don't we have a better way to understand our waste and recycling? We pull raw materials from the earth, manufacture them into products, use them, and bury them in the ground. The value is still there. We just never had the ability to recover it. I spent years in the field watching waste operations city after city. The same story everywhere: trucks running routes disconnected from reality, operators buried in paper and manual data entry, good people without the right tools. So I built Plutou. We believe this industry deserves world-class technology, and we're building it. A world where nothing has to be waste.

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  • Plutou
    PlutouThe AI-native operations platform for collection operators.
    Jul 2026
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    Joined Product HuntJune 18th, 2026

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Plutou - The AI-native operations platform for collection operators.

The AI-native operations platform for collection operators. An agentic dispatcher that plans the week, adapts in real time, and learns from every pickup. Plutou runs the whole operation from one system: it builds the week's routes in one click, adapts in real time, and cuts labor, miles, and fuel up to 20%. Drivers capture photos and weights on an offline app that syncs to dispatch instantly. Built for collection operators across textiles, donations, books, recycling, and waste.
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