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Discrimination of Plastic Wastes for Recycling

K. Tanabe and T. Matsumoto
[J. Chem. Software, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 147-156, 1999]


Present status of discrimination techniques of plastic wastes necessary for recycling is reviewed. A method to discriminate many kinds of plastics rapidly by combining near-infrared spectra measurements and neural network analyses has been examined.


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