Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Feb 18, 2025
Accurate identification of plastic materials from post-consumer food container and packaging waste is crucial for enhancing the purity and added value of recycled materials, thereby promoting recycling and addressing the issue of plastic pollution. H...
Marine pollution bulletin
Jan 30, 2025
Marine plastic pollution has emerged as a significant ecological and biological issue impacting global marine ecosystems. To develop real-time cleaning systems for marine plastic litter, we implemented a three-dimensional marine plastic litter real-t...
Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
Jan 18, 2025
In this systematic review, advancements in plastic recycling technologies, including mechanical, thermolysis, chemical and biological methods, are examined. Comparisons among recycling technologies have identified current research trends, including a...
Journal of environmental management
Jan 3, 2025
Current industrial separation and sorting technologies struggle to efficiently identify and classify a large part of Waste of Electric and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) plastics due to their high content of certain additives. In this study, Raman spect...
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Dec 31, 2024
In this research, a rationally-designed strategy was employed to address the crucial issue of removing nano-plastics (NPs) from aquatic environments, which was based on fabricating sea urchin-like structures of FeO magnetic robots (MagRobots). Throug...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Dec 16, 2024
The export ban on plastic waste by China has brought domestic plastic recycling to the forefront of environmental concerns, with sorting being a crucial step in the recycling process. This study assessed the performance of advanced AI models, Mask R-...
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)
Dec 12, 2024
Agricultural plastic greenhouses (APGs) are crucial for sustainable agricultural planting, and accurate spatial distribution information acquisition is crucial. Deep learning network models can extract target features from remote sensing images more ...
Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
Dec 8, 2024
Plastic pollution has been identified as one of the most pressing environmental issues of the 21st century, driven by excessive consumption and inadequate plastic waste management. This issue is particularly reflected in short lifespan of plastic pro...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Dec 3, 2024
We present an artificial intelligence-guided approach to design durable and chemically recyclable ring-opening polymerization (ROP) class polymers. This approach employs a genetic algorithm (GA) that designs new monomers and then utilizes virtual for...
Journal of hazardous materials
Nov 30, 2024
Assessing chemical toxicity in materials like plastic packaging is critical to safeguarding public health. This study presents the development of classification-based machine learning models to predict the toxicity of chemicals associated with plasti...