The INTESCOP project will improve plastic waste sorting processes to get quality recovered fractions and boost the circularity of post-consumer plastics.
The GAIKER Technology Centre, a member of the Basque Research & Technology Alliance (BRTA) is carrying out the project on circular economy applied to complex plastic waste based on smart identification with innovative spectroscopic analysis techniques, INTESCOP.
With the aim of developing new real-time identification technologies that enable highly efficient plastic waste sorting, according to its polymeric nature, this industrial research will offer a solution to the technological challenges of plastic waste sorting identified by the eco-industry.
INTESCOP will work for two years (2025-2027) to generate a technological knowledge base that will help to advance the design and development of new systems for the automatic sorting of complex plastic waste by combining AI with advanced spectroscopic analysis techniques: hyperspectral vision and terahertz spectroscopy.
GAIKER is an expert in recycling technologies and in the development and assessment of waste conditioning and recovery processes for subsequent use as secondary raw materials. This research will develop and assess, through laboratory pilot projects, AI-based models to be applied to the automatic identification and classification of multilayer and biodegradable plastics contained in the light packaging waste stream and technical plastics in the waste stream of electrical and electronic equipment, based on the analysis of their respective spectral fingerprints.
With INTESCOP, funded by Bizkaia Provincial Council within the 2025 Technology Transfer Programme, the plastic waste sorting processes implemented in the eco-industry of Bizkaia will be improved in order to obtain higher quality recovered fractions and increase the volume of post-consumer plastics that are reintroduced into the economic cycle as secondary raw materials.
Bizkaiko Foru Aldundiak finantzatu du proiektu hau, 2025eko Teknologia Transferentzia Programaren barruan / This project has been funded by Bizkaia Provincial Council within the Technology Transfer Programme 2025
