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AI-assisted sorting, other new technologies could improve plastic recycling

How can plastic recycling be more efficient?

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“More research and technology development are necessary to attain sustainability in plastics management,” says the study’s corresponding author, Aurora del Carmen Munguía-López, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, within the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “We not only need holistic and comprehensive approaches, but to consider the pros and cons of those approaches throughout their entire life cycle.”

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