Domo, Covestro, BASF are testing blockchain for tracing plastics
GreenBiz
APRIL 6, 2020
The mission: create an open data-sharing application that chemicals and plastics producers can use to inform circular production processes.
VMWare's Pratima Rao Gluckman on using blockchain to rescue ocean-bound plastics
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Pratima Rao Gluckman shares how VMWare and Dell are working together to collect ocean-bound plastics and using blockchain to track packaging materials. As companies continue to innovate technological solutions, there's always challenges. VMWare and Dell have had to figure out how to eliminate fraud and authenticate source materials.
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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Funding for plastic recycling tech
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 21, 2021
The firm says it is building a globally distributed, decentralised network of advanced recycling plants near the sources of plastic waste. To evidence the recycled content in the new packaging, it uses its ecoVeritas certification system, which is based on blockchain and AI technologies.
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Feasibility study will examine plastics circularity in Nigeria
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 29, 2021
A new study will examine the feasibility of advancing fully circular value chains in Nigeria, to help close the loop on plastics waste. The work is being undertaken by an ongoing partnership between chemicals firm Dow and Empower, a Norwegian circular platform company which uses blockchain technology to track plastics waste.
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Domo, Covestro and BASF team up to test blockchain for tracing plastics
Business Green
APRIL 9, 2020
Three firms are aiming to create open data-sharing application that chemicals and plastics producers can use to inform circular production processes. And now two European companies, polyamide supplier Domo and polymer manufacturer Covestro, are collaborating with Dutch technology startup Circularise to create a system for tracking plastics.
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Circulor, TotalEnergies and Recycling Technologies unveil plastic waste traceability software
Business Green
AUGUST 11, 2021
Backed by Innovate UK, the blockchain innovation aims to provide fully traceable and accurately-labelled record of recycled material. Sustainable supply chain software firm Circulor has unveiled its latest blockchain-enabled innovation, which is aimed at improving the traceability of hard-to-recycle-plastics, it announced this week.
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Domo, Covestro, BASF are testing blockchain for tracing plastics
AGreenLiving
APRIL 6, 2020
The mission: create an open data-sharing application that chemicals and plastics producers can use to inform circular production processes. Read more: Domo, Covestro, BASF are testing blockchain for tracing plastics.
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VMWare’s Pratima Rao Gluckman on using blockchain to rescue ocean-bound plastics
AGreenLiving
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Pratima Rao Gluckman shares how VMWare and Dell are working together to collect ocean-bound plastics and using blockchain to track packaging materials. More here: VMWare’s Pratima Rao Gluckman on using blockchain to rescue ocean-bound plastics.
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Ecosystems for good: How collaborator networks achieve sustainability
GreenBiz
JULY 6, 2021
Powered by accelerative technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, the cloud and the internet of things, digital ecosystems successfully marry forward-thinking partners and cutting-edge technologies to tackle the biggest threats that humanity faces today. One key area where this can have an impact is plastic recycling.
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The need to digitize traceability is key to enabling circularity
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 28, 2019
The jury is still out on blockchain, but without better process automation and better data, it will be difficult to scale product takeback.
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NatWest 'reverse vending machines' to turn unused bank cards into clothing
Business Green
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Bank launches pilot project to 'eat' up recyclable credit cards that would otherwise be bound for landfill NatWest has today launched a trial of "reverse vending machines" designed to swallow unused plastic cards in a secure way so that they can be safely recycled. Moreover, more than 6.6 million batches of recycling.
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June Cleantech Roundup: Beyond Carbon, Beyond Tariffs, Beyond Plastics, Beyond Fission?
Clean Energy Trust
JULY 1, 2019
Link As the plastic recycling trade has ground to a halt following China’s implementation of higher standards, there has been a spike in interest in bioplastics and new forms of recycling. Link Facebook announced Libra, their new blockchain and cryptocurrency project.
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Inside the world’s first VR circular fashion summit: 4 key takeaways
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 14, 2020
It has set three Action Goals to be achieved by 2021: recirculate 100,000 fashion item; tokenize 10,000 fashion items on the blockchain; and upcycle 1,000 pairs of sneakers. Unilever is partnering with the blockchain powered peer-to-peer platform Swapchain to recirculate fashion.
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Still in the dark about targets? Observers respond to the UK government’s Environment Bill
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Plastic waste ban: A red herring? One measure the Bill promises to enshrine in law is a new commitment to ban the export of plastic waste to developing countries, a problem that has become more acute following China’s decision to stop receiving plastic waste from abroad. Working with business.
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Greentown Labs Member Milestones — July 2022
Greentown Labs
JULY 27, 2022
Topl , a Greentown alum, raised a $15M Series A for its blockchain ecosystem that helps companies track and monetize social impact initiatives. Radical Plastics is conducting field trials of mulch film produced by its patented technology with Johnny’s Selected Seeds.
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Earth911 Reader: $150 Billion in Wildfire Damage, Pantanal Wetlands Burn, & Top Plastic Polluters
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 12, 2020
We keep an eye on the news for useful information … The post Earth911 Reader: $150 Billion in Wildfire Damage, Pantanal Wetlands Burn, & Top Plastic Polluters appeared first on Earth 911. See the rest here: Earth911 Reader: $150 Billion in Wildfire Damage, Pantanal Wetlands Burn, & Top Plastic Polluters.
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How Blockchain Technology Could Reduce Plastic Waste
Mr. Sustainability
MARCH 16, 2021
‘Non-Fungible Tokens’ (NFTs) could serve as a material passport across the plastic supply chain, by Robert Weegenaar Summary - Blockchains are proving extremely useful for tracking materials across all sorts of supply chains and creating transparent and immutable audit trails. Crypto’s are HOT at the moment. What are NFTs?
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2021
Greentown Labs
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Electricity.
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Impact unicorns: Green firms dominate list of UK's most valuable tech start-ups
Business Green
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
These companies sit at the top of almost 900 impact start-ups and scale-ups that are using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), bid data, and blockchain to try and tackle global problems.
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Circularity Challenge Spotlight: Circularise
Greentown Labs
JANUARY 14, 2020
The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. The Netherlands-based, eight-person company is running pilots in the plastics and textiles industries, and aims to scale in 2020. . If the “recipe” changes, so does the information Circularise provides.
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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan
GreenBiz
JUNE 23, 2020
The world that emerges from COVID-19 could offer plentiful, zero marginal cost electricity, ubiquitous computing and cheap bio-manufacturing of high-purity drugs and environmentally friendly plastics directly from DNA. . As another example, the digitization of the electrical grid, is changing the way power is delivered and consumed.
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Circulor: Inside the UK-based startup helping Volvo trace EV battery materials
Business Green
JULY 2, 2021
Close to 80 per cent of the 1,000 senior executives surveyed in spring 2020 by consulting firm Cognizant indicated that sensors and the internet of things were important for achieving sustainability goals: 72 per cent pointed to artificial intelligence and 60 per cent cited big data initiatives and blockchain as instrumental. (
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Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation and Greentown Labs Announce the KAITEKI Challenge Startup Participants
Greentown Labs
MAY 18, 2021
May 18, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) have selected six startups for the KAITEKI Challenge that are innovating in the areas of alternative proteins, plastics, and packaging. Somerville, Mass.,
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This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
In early January, I covered personal care products company Aveda’s project to trace and verify the provenance of its vanilla supply using blockchain — and to allow consumers to peek into that information by later this year. Recycler Plastic Bank is also using IBM blockchain services to verify its claims. Blockchain.
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AGreenLiving
OCTOBER 28, 2019
The jury is still out on blockchain, but without better process automation and better data, it will be difficult to scale product takeback. Original post: The need to digitize traceability is key to enabling circularity.
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Ecosystems for good: How collaborator networks achieve sustainability
AGreenLiving
JULY 6, 2021
Powered by accelerative technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, the cloud and the internet of things, digital ecosystems successfully marry forward-thinking partners and cutting-edge technologies to tackle the biggest threats that humanity faces today. One key area where this can have an impact is plastic recycling.
Greentown Labs Member Milestones — September 2021
Greentown Labs
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Radical Plastics was awarded a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture SBIR program Phase 1 grant. Topl ’s blockchain technology was featured in Bloomberg. Sol Clarity , Lydian Labs , AeroShield Materials , Vespr Solar , Nth Cycle , and NewGrid received funding through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Catalyst Program.
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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
They are metals and plastics or whatever. That is somewhere we are working right now, with all kinds of tools — AI, blockchain, what we call material passports and buildings as material banks — we coined terms for all this. That would include plastics that are recyclable. They are not biological items. it is design.
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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?
GreenBiz
JUNE 8, 2021
If the sourcing is done carefully, fake fish also should be devoid of the mercury and microplastics that can stem from ocean plastic pollution. Kelp-based "shrimp" is kosher and won't trigger a life-threatening shellfish allergy. Here in random order are some key companies making waves in alt-seafood: Nestlé.
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Our world is on fire - and business must help put it out
Business Green
JANUARY 22, 2020
Just 100 companies could prevent roughly ten million metric tons of plastic waste, and our partnership with leading companies on the 'ReSource: Plastic' platform is enabling them to turn commitments into meaningful action across sectors and supply chains.
Unilever unveils climate and nature fund worth more than $1 billion
GreenBiz
JUNE 16, 2020
As such it pledged to increase traceability and transparency by using emerging digital technologies — such as satellite monitoring, geolocation tracking and blockchain systems — to enhance oversight, accelerate smallholder engagement and improve its approach to derivates sourcing.
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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021
GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2021
The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. LinkedIn | Company profile.
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Inside the world’s first VR circular fashion summit: 4 key takeaways
AGreenLiving
OCTOBER 14, 2020
It has set three Action Goals to be achieved by 2021: recirculate 100,000 fashion item; tokenize 10,000 fashion items on the blockchain; and upcycle 1,000 pairs of sneakers. Unilever is partnering with the blockchain powered peer-to-peer platform Swapchain to recirculate fashion.
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LIDAR helps Greece become a renewable energy leader
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 4, 2021
Their gnawing damaged the link and her guardians soon learned to cover the cables for the ancillaries with protective plastic tubes as a key adaptation to her new home. It seems some wild goats grazing nearby got a taste for the cable connecting the Lidar to her power supply.
These recycled plastic tracksuits are naturally dyed with plants
AGreenLiving
APRIL 3, 2020
Related: PANGAIA presents FLWRDWN, a down alternative made from biodegradable wildflowers According to the company, 100 billion articles of clothing and 500 billion plastic bottles are produced annually, with half ending up in landfills. Read more here: These recycled plastic tracksuits are naturally dyed with plants.
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This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact
Business Green
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Covalent reveals how Blockchain technology is offering a consumers a peek at its environmental footprint. In early January, I covered personal care products company Aveda's project to trace and verify the provenance of its vanilla supply using blockchain - and to allow consumers to peek into that information by later this year.
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Greentown Houston Is Here—Meet Our 25+ Inaugural Startups
Greentown Labs
APRIL 14, 2021
Applied Bioplastics uses plant matter to produce affordable polymers with properties that are equal to or better than those of traditional petrochemical plastics, resulting in a noticeable carbon footprint reduction. Manufacturing. Triton GHG Environmental Services manufactures mobile skid-mounted units that displace diesel usage.
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'We want to be guiding stars': Inside Polestar's quest to deliver a 'truly climate-neutral' electric car by 2030
Business Green
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
The demand for rare minerals, on top of requirements for the steel, plastics, and aluminium used to manufacture the body and interior of EVs, means even though battery cars have no exhaust pipe emissions their supply chains remain complex, and their impact on the planet is far from negligible.
Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan
AGreenLiving
JUNE 23, 2020
The world that emerges from COVID-19 could offer plentiful, zero marginal cost electricity, ubiquitous computing and cheap bio-manufacturing of high-purity drugs and environmentally friendly plastics directly from DNA. As another example, the digitization of the electrical grid, is changing the way power is delivered and consumed.
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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan
AGreenLiving
JUNE 23, 2020
The world that emerges from COVID-19 could offer plentiful, zero marginal cost electricity, ubiquitous computing and cheap bio-manufacturing of high-purity drugs and environmentally friendly plastics directly from DNA. As another example, the digitization of the electrical grid, is changing the way power is delivered and consumed.
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Unilever unveils €1bn climate and nature fund
Business Green
JUNE 15, 2020
As such it pledged to increase traceability and transparency by using emerging digital technologies - such as satellite monitoring, geolocation tracking, and blockchain systems - to enhance oversight, accelerate smallholder engagement, and improve its approach to derivates sourcing.
This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact
AGreenLiving
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
In early January, I covered personal care products company Aveda’s project to trace and verify the provenance of its vanilla supply using blockchain — and to allow consumers to peek into that information by later this year. Recycler Plastic Bank is also using IBM blockchain services to verify its claims.
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Meet Our Newest Startup Members
Greentown Labs
JANUARY 11, 2021
Nearly 30 startups joined our community in the final quarter of 2020, working on innovations as diverse as zinc-ion batteries, long-range weather forecasts, wave energy conversion, and replacements for petrochemical plastics. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! MANUFACTURING.
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January Cleantech Roundup: Corporations Claim Their Carbon | How Public Chargers Influence…
Clean Energy Trust
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
It is always good to see more experimentation about ways to make the energy sector more efficient, although it’s a little more complicated than just putting it on the blockchain. Link China announced plans to phase out single-use plastic bags by 2025. Link Clayton Christenson. Link Emissions dropped in 2019, after rising in 2018.
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