Throwing out soft plastic, such as grocery bags, bread bags, cling wrap, bubble wrap, chocolate and biscuit wrapper, etc..., eats at me... every. single. time.
Using AI to identify and segregate soft plastic waste to be re-used in the economy is so exciting. Once established, this technology can be expanded to cover different products as well.
by training the system’s AI ‘brain’ to constantly improve as it obtained more data on how to identify the bags of soft plastic waste. In the lab, it achieved 100 per cent accuracy and a pick-up rate of 2000 bags per hour. For comparison, Vucetic said humans would be able to pick up around 800 bags each hour.
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