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Disposable gloves and masks weren't part of the waste stream optical sorters were originally designed around – but ECOPACK's flexibility in detecting different materials meant it could be adapted to identify them too.
As disposable masks and gloves became a much larger part of everyday waste during the pandemic, sorting plants needed a way to identify and separate this new material stream – and ECOPACK's optical sorting capabilities proved adaptable to the task.
ECOPACK uses optical sensors to classify materials passing through a sorting line, originally focused on separating different types of plastic packaging. Detecting gloves and masks – typically made from materials like nitrile, latex or non-woven polypropylene – required extending that same detection capability to recognise these new shapes and materials within the stream, allowing plants to separate them out rather than have them contaminate other recycling streams.
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