A team active in Timișoara has developed a computer vision solution that detects contaminated plastic waste in the sorting process. The solution, PolyMore, is meant to help improve and automate the plastic waste handling processes and is currently tested with a waste collection company, according to Romania-Insider.com.
As plastic waste can come contaminated with other types of scraps. PolyMore has developed a solution that detects this to allow for better sorting.
“We started with the desire to find the optimum solution for managing plastic. After getting in touch with several people in the recycling industry and visiting several sorting centers, we identified as a big issue in the recycling industry the wrong sorting of waste after people use various products in their households,” co-founder Iohana Măceșanu says.
The PolyMore team is made up of two engineers, Cristian Pogan and Vlad Mocanu, economist Iohana Măceșanu, and chemist Victor Baerle. “We met and started to work on the PolyMore solution at the business pre-accelerator Innovation Labs, the 2020 edition,” she explains.
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