Sorting Plastic Waste – An AI-Driven success story

Our first webinar of the year provided attendees with the chance to learn about and stay ahead of the most important trends in chemicals management and regulation for 2019. Chemical Watch's chief analyst Nhat Nguyen and chief customer officer Emma Chynoweth explored the regulatory trends in addition to potential challenges and opportunities that you are likely to face in 2019, including: New chemical notification schemes expected globally, Existing chemicals under the regulatory spotlight.

Some of the common suit materials will be introduced from a practical perspective for those exposed to the multiple threats of arc flash, flash fire and chemical contamination exposure. Participants will also consider the standards addressing these issues.

Optimisation of the development cycle for new products is a challenge in the chemical industry. Steel, which in many ways is analogous to chemicals, is produced using a long chain of interdependent process steps. Consequently, large volumes of experiments are required to fully explore process parameter relations. This is more critical for new, highly differentiated products for which understanding of the underlying physical principles is incomplete and thus a-priori exclusion of factors not possible. In this context, the use of statistical Design of Experiments (DOE) to shorten development timescale, maximize the output of experimental capacity and minimize material consumption is essential.

In this webinar, Dr. Chelsea Rochman, Assistant Professor in Ecology at the University of Toronto, discussed the state of science relevant to the sources, contamination, and impacts of microplastics. She focused mostly on how microplastics impact wildlife. She also highlighted some of the key gaps in our understanding and provided some relevant information to inform decision-making.