The global fashion industry faces a staggering sustainability crisis, discarding nearly 100 billion garments annually. While brands have set ambitious targets for using recycled materials by 2030, a massive technological bottleneck has blocked the path to true circularity: the limitations of traditional sorting. For years, Near-Infrared (NIR) has been the industry standard. Yet, it has critical blind spots: it cannot detect black garments, it fails when textiles are wet or da