This spectral database was created within the project Study of the natural degradation of plastics for the efficiency of plastic sorting technique based on Raman technology in order to recycle and to apply the data according to the FAIR principle , project supported by the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, implemented by Eng. Ioana Marica, master student enrolled in the Biomedical and Medical Physics program, mentored by Prof. Dr. Simona Pinzaru. The spectral data have been collected using the Raman-AFM Lab infrastructure http://www.phys.ubbcluj.ro/raman/
We truly hope that this work will be of help to all those from research, academia, enterprises, policymakers, stakeholders dealing with global plastics waste management and relying on knowledge-based information on waste plastics structure and properties at molecular level, particularly when it comes to years-aged plastics in terrestrial or aquatic conditions.