'Plastics Cloud': SAP harnesses machine learning to track plastic use and recycling trends

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'Plastics Cloud': SAP harnesses machine learning to track plastic use and recycling trends

Company says technology will enable better use of data to tackle plastic waste

One of Europe's leading software providers has revealed how it is collecting existing and live data from across the plastic supply chain to generate new approaches for eliminating single-use plastics and...

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