{"id":1001099,"date":"2026-04-04T08:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001099"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:28:03","slug":"ai-machine-sorts-clothes-faster-than-humans-to-boost-textile-recycling-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/ai-machine-sorts-clothes-faster-than-humans-to-boost-textile-recycling-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"AI machine sorts clothes faster than humans to boost textile recycling in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China&#8217;s east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of used clothes and sorts them. <\/p>\n<p>The novelty? It uses artificial intelligence to sort them by composition at high speed, offering a glimpse into how AI could play a role in reducing the impact of synthetic textile waste. <\/p>\n<p>The Fastsort-Textile machine, named one of Time magazine&#8217;s Best Inventions of 2025, was created by DataBeyond, a Chinese AI recycling company founded in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China&#8217;s east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of used clothes and sorts them. The novelty? It uses artificial intelligence to sort them by composition at high speed, offering a glimpse into how AI could play a role in reducing the impact of synthetic textile waste. The Fastsort-Textile machine, named one of Time magazine&#8217;s Best Inventions of 2025, was created by DataBeyond, a Chinese AI recycling company founded in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}