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How RFID technology is playing a role in reducing waste and increasing recycling

Envirotec Magazine

PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. A second major cause of the problem is losses in the distribution and retail chain.

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

Envirotec Magazine

All these proposals fall under the purview of the European Green Deal, first approved in 2020, whose goal is to achieve incremental sustainable growth so that Europe becomes the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Green Deal legislation has proven most adaptable to the times.

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7 European Companies Looking to Go Big in American Clean Power in 2020

GreenTechMedia

and Brazil, much of it backed by C&I power purchase agreements thanks to Enel Green Power's early and successful push into the corporate renewables market. The oil supermajor has not hidden its ambition to become a retail power supplier in the U.S., gigawatts of renewable power. A sizeable 5.1-gigawatt billion ($5.2

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We need fresh thinking about the role of digital technologies in our food system

Business Green

Covid-19 has highlighted the shortcomings of our food supply chains, but technology can help, argues Green Alliance's Imogen Cripps. Through Green Alliance's Tech Task Force programme, we've already investigated the transformative potential of smart green tech in the energy efficiency, transport and construction sectors.

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'Testbed': Behind the scenes at Asos' latest 'circular' fashion collection

Business Green

BusinessGreen gets a behind-the-scenes look at the fast fashion company's new green range. A growing band of major fashion retailers have pledged to achieve net zero emissions and overhaul their design and manufacturing processes to make the notoriously resource intensive industry more sustainable.

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9 tips for eco-friendly Black Friday, Cyber Monday shopping

AGreenLiving

While smaller, sustainably minded companies may not have a flashy ads online or on the TV, they are out there and will often offer discounts on Black Friday and Cyber Monday just like the giant box retailers. Choose green technology A quick glance through most holiday catalogs will highlight deals on electronics.

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Trying to make a living on an organic smallholding: Paul Jennings, ‘One-Planet’ smallholder

Low Impact

I bought more than I need, and when they arrive, I’m distributing them out to other people, at something between what I paid and what the normal retail price is. Whereas some other OPD projects have amazing houses, with price tags I’d shudder to have a guess at. The other day I bought a net of onion sets. And I said that I can’t.

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