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Comment: Pay-as-you-throw can drive the circular economy

Envirotec Magazine

To run a successful waste and recycling business in a circular economy climate, you need the right data and the right management systems in place,” said Williams. Extracting raw materials has an impact on climate, as do the manufacturing processes that we use to make products.

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EU Digital Product Passports aim to track items through the product life-cycle

Envirotec Magazine

Elena Rotzokou of environmental data specialist Ecoveritas attempts to explain the initiative. As the term implies, each product placed by a business on the EU market will need to carry its individual information passport, access to which will need to be provided via a data carrier to a unique product identifier (UID).

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Scottish council becomes first to trial recycling weighing technology

Envirotec Magazine

The programme, funded by the Scottish government funded advisory group Zero Waste Scotland and delivered in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, involves the use of RFID tags. This project involves collecting data relating to the weight and make-up of collected waste and will have no impact on bin collection services.

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Game on: New study shows which sports teams have the greenest fans

GreenBiz

It developed the sustainability-minded audience by capturing a list of terms that someone interested in sustainability may use in their Twitter bio, or by tagging accounts that a climate activist may follow. Brands can use this data to understand which team or even which league may provide the most engaged audience.

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Recurrent and Black Book aim to make used EV values more precise

Charged

However, there’s little in the way of data on battery aging to guide buyers and sellers. Now the company is collaborating with the vehicle data and analytics firm Black Book to create an EV-specific valuation system that’s influenced by battery condition. Dealerships can use Recurrent’s Range Scores to price their used EV inventory.

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Open water data platform launched in Britain

Smart Energy International

The Stream open data platform has been launched in beta format for data sharing for research, decision making and public awareness among other purposes. With all of the water companies at some stage of a smart meter rollout, some form of consumption data is likely to become available in due course.

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Polling Shows Growing Climate Concern Among Americans. But Outsized Influence of Deniers Remains a Roadblock

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins More Americans than ever before — 54 percent, recent polling data shows — are alarmed or concerned about climate change, which scientists warn is a planetary emergency unfolding in the form of searing heat, prolonged drought, massive wildfires, monstrous storms, and other extremes.