The agency's new data could improve the machine learning models and algorithms improving textile sorting for eventual ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has built a comprehensive database cataloguing the molecular ...

85% of discarded textiles were relegated to landfills or incineration plants in 2018, according to EPA. Credit: anna.spoka/Shutterstock. The creation of this database comes as a response to the ...

The organization says its NIR-SORT offering contains the molecular “fingerprints” of different kinds of textile fibers that ...