Globally, approximately one million plastic bottles are consumed every minute, and up to five trillion plastic bags are used each year. About 400 million tons of plastic waste are generated annually worldwide, with less than 10% being recycled. The vast amount of unrecycled plastic is discarded, causing harm to the ecological environment and living organisms, including humans.

In 2024, global textile waste generation reached 140 million tons, with China accounting for 26% of the total—approximately 36.4 million tons. According to preliminary estimates by the Waste Textile Special Committee of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, China recycled over 8.5 million tons of waste textiles, achieving a recycling rate of about 23%. The remaining waste was processed through incineration and landfill, exerting significant pressure on the atmosphere and the ecological environment.

In 2022, the National Development and Reform Commission, in collaboration with other relevant departments, issued the Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a Waste Materials Recycling System (No. 109 [2022], Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection, hereinafter referred to as the Guiding Opinions). This document provides a systematic plan and coordinated arrangement for the comprehensive development of China's waste materials recycling system over the next five years. It represents a key measure to implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee and the *Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan*, as well as to advance the high-quality development of the circular economy during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.

• Since 2018, real-time automatic sorting equipment based on near-infrared spectroscopy has emerged on the market.

• In recent years, near-infrared hyperspectral technology has begun to gain prominence in automatic sorting applications due to its inherent advantage of combining spectral and spatial information.

• The use of hyperspectral cameras for sorting waste plastics and textiles offers high accuracy and efficiency, making this technology the preferred choice for material recovery in solid waste recycling.

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Industrial Hyperspectral Camera

• High frame rate

• Wide FOV (Field of View)

• Suited for industrial-grade applications, featuring multiple trigger control modes for coordinated operation with other devices

Data Processing Unit

• X86 platform, Linux platform

• Gigabit/10-Gigabit high-speed acquisition interface

• Control interfaces such as RS232

Data Modeling and Processing Software

• Supports real-time hyperspectral data/spectral data preprocessing

• Supports real-time dark background compensation, illumination uniformity correction, full-pixel reflectance calculation, etc.

• Supports traditional spectral algorithms for classification and identification

• Supports machine learning algorithms, including both modeling and real-time processing modules

                                        Industrial-Grade Dedicated Hyperspectral Camera

HX-17S Industrial-Grade Hyperspectral Camera is developed by Hangzhou Gaopu Technology based on its proprietary prism-grating dispersion spectroscopy technology. It offers high spectral resolution, exceptional efficiency, excellent consistency, and user-friendly operation. Designed to meet industrial demands for high-speed, robust, and stable performance, the HX-17S features high frame rates and a wide field of view, fulfilling users' requirements for operational efficiency. Its high cost-effectiveness enables clients to achieve an outstanding return on investment.

The HX-17S hyperspectral camera provides flexible pixel binning and customizable band selection functions, significantly reducing the complexity of online data transmission and processing. It is widely applicable in industrial sorting, precision agriculture, food quality inspection, medical and pharmaceutical analysis, environmental monitoring, and many other fields.