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A smart recycling design integrates terahertz identification with container geometry to improve post-consumer PET and PS sorting while maintaining usability and transport efficiency. Credit: Mr. Juniya Yoshihara from SIT, Japan; and Dr. Kazuaki Okubo from Tohoku University, Japan. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2026.112028 Plastic packaging is designed around appearance, convenience and function, but what happens after disposal is often considered separately—yet managing this waste is key to building a circular economy, since good recycling requires sorting plastics correctly by type. Transparent polyethylene terephthalate and polystyrene, for example, can be difficult to distinguish visually, making accurate separation challenging.

The laptops offer up to 128 GB unified memory, 1 petaflop FP4 performance and support for local AI agents and 8K video. NVIDIA announced the availability of RTX Spark laptops, which combine RTX graphics with NVIDIA’s AI software platform in Windows PCs. The laptops are designed for content creation, gaming and local AI workloads and will be available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI.