Scientists have developed a powerful method that shows how microscopic plastics travel through digestive cells while those ...

We can now tell the difference between a wide range of plastic types and thereby separate them according to their chemical composition, greatly increasing recycling.

New technology could remotely identify various types of plastics, offering a valuable tool for future monitoring and analysis of oceanic plastic pollution. A new hyperspectral Raman imaging lidar ...

This article discusses the use of ATR-FTIR spectroscopy for identifying plastics.

Matsushita Electric Industrial has developed an automated plastics ID system for the recycling market which it claims can identify plastics in electronic products with almost 100% accuracy.

Different plastic samples provide different fingerprints, which allows the identification of plastics. This article presents a study using an Edinburgh Analytical IA30 FTIR Spectrometer equipped with ...