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Waste Plastic Identification With Thermal Barcodes: A Method That Also Sees Black Packaging

Published August 13, 2026

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Don’t Waste It reported that UB researchers, including Amit Goyal (CBE), Thomas Thundat (CBE), and Kunal Singh, CBE PhD student, are developing a three-dimensional transient thermal barcode system that could rapidly identify plastics moving on conveyor belts.