New AI model helps detect and identify microplastics in wastewater

Mongabay
Jan 16, 2024, 7:55 am272 pts
How do you identify microplastics in wastewater? When Wayne Parker started out researching the issue, the existing techniques were time-consuming and cumbersome. For a long time, optical or infrared microscopes were used to manually analyze and identify the tiny fragments of plastic waste in the water. However,…

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