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Metaspectral snaps $4.7M seed round to bring real-time hyperspectral data to recycling

For all its promise, the current state of solid-waste recycling leaves a lot to be desired. Plastic waste is among the worst: It represents about 12% of solid waste in the U.S., but only about 4.5% of what gets recycled. There are plenty of reasons why we’re terrible at recycling plastics. For one, …