Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Blockchain technology has been proposed - and is being piloted - for all manner of supply chain applications, particularly for verifying the provenance of source of materials, commodities, food or goods. Where does blockchain come in?

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Blockchain Plastics Recycling Recycling 77

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

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. The study will focus on the implementation of a scalable digital waste collection and recycling business model in Lagos.

Plastics 130

Plastics Recycling Recycling Blockchain 130

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

The implementation of the battery passports, which will be established with blockchain traceability solution provider Minespider, will ensure that Temsa is compliant with the EU’s new battery regulation. Its purpose it to promote circularity and a passport ceases to exist only after the battery has been recycled.

Europe 69

Europe Batteries Business Energy Monitoring Blockchain 69

Smart Energy International

JULY 7, 2022

The four-year project, which has its roots in reducing Europe’s dependence on mostly imported critical raw materials and establishing supply chains to meet the expected future demand for EV batteries, should lead to improved recycling of batteries and the more sustainable use of materials. Battery passport.

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Batteries Blockchain Recycling Recycling 116

Smart Energy International

APRIL 27, 2022

It requires battery passports that show the battery’s embedded CO2 emissions, compliance to ethical production standards and levels of recycled content and will apply to all batteries manufactured or placed in service in the EU. Have you read? Setting up is due by 1 January 2026.

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Batteries Blockchain Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 52

Climate 4.0

MARCH 22, 2021

Today I read how blockchain is being applied to bring transparency and accountability to trash/waste disposal and recycling efforts. Blockchain to show ownership "provenance" for your trash disposal, check! We understand, generally, how Industry 4.0 tools can attack big eco-sustainability problems with velocity and scale.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Blockchain IoT 98

Smart Energy International

JUNE 6, 2022

MOBI (Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative) has released the first Battery State of Health standard as a component of its Battery Initiative. First blockchain-based EV grid integration standard released Overcoming the e-mobility chicken or egg dilemma. Have you read?

Health 52

Health Batteries Blockchain Electric vehicle 52

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.

Fashion 477

Fashion Blockchain Carbon-neutral Soil 477

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. million batches of recycling. Moreover, more than 6.6

Plastics 69

Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 69

GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

The beermaker’s 2025 goals pledge bold advances in water strategy, returnable or recyclable packaging, renewable energy procurement (its U.S. Clancy: How has the situation affected your packaging commitments and recycling strategy, if at all? It's this blockchain technology that we used in our smallholder farm supply chain.

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Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Recycling Recycling 275

Charged

AUGUST 26, 2020

At the beginning of 2020, Mercedes-Benz and CATL launched a joint pilot project using blockchain technology to create transparency on the emissions of climate-damaging gases and the proportion of secondary material along the battery cell supply chain. Source: Daimler.

Batteries 126

Batteries Technology Carbon-neutral Blockchain 126

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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Startups Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 98

GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

Using blockchain and cloud-based technology, a number of startups are already laying the groundwork. . For example, blockchain platform Provenance helps trace and certify supply chains to enable ethical procurement decisions.

Technology 498

Technology Fashion Sustainability Energy Monitor 498

Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Label will provide Rio Tinto's customers with information on the carbon footprint, water use, recycled content, energy sources, and community investment associated with its aluminium.

Carbon 63

Carbon Sustainability Blockchain Recycling 63

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The 18-month project, which is funded by the European Commission under the Digital Europe Programme, is anticipated to lead the way towards a circular economy, which in essence adds a lifecycle approach and in particular recycling to avoid any waste to the traditional ‘linear’ supply chain system that has been the standard. Have you read?

Europe 52

Europe Blockchain Batteries Recycling 52

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. SiTration raised $2.35M in pre-seed funding , which will support its novel separation processes for extracting lithium, cobalt, nickel, and more from recycled EV batteries.

Startups 98

Startups Plastics Innovation North America 98

Charged

JULY 27, 2020

The Northvolt Ett plant will be powered entirely by renewable energy, and will have in-house recycling capacities. Northvolt aims to use 50 percent recycled material in new cells by 2030. BMW is determined to keep its battery supply chain as green as possible.

Batteries 49

Batteries Recycled materials Blockchain Recycling 49

Smart Energy International

JULY 5, 2022

Have you read: Bangkok boats bolster e-mobility ReBeam – harnessing blockchain to improve the e-mobility experience Overcoming the e-mobility chicken or egg dilemma. At the same time, the majority of respondents are not prepared to pay a premium for reused or recycled materials in their vehicles. Hopes for government subsidies.

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Electricity Recycled materials Blockchain Electric vehicle 104

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The waste- and chemical-free dye is then used to color the Sakura T-shirt, one of many clothing products the company has designed using natural or recycled products. To ensure transparency throughout the manufacturing process, each garment tag includes blockchain technology that shows the full history of the garment.

Blockchain 36

Blockchain Biodegradable Waste Waste 36

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Simon Ellin, the head of the Recycling Association said he was “concerned” at this aspect of the Bill. There are already strict rules in place on recycled plastic exports via the Basel Convention and the rules that the countries importing the plastics have introduced.” Working with business.

Soil 280

Soil Biodiversity Plastics Business Energy Monitoring 280

Greentown Labs

JANUARY 14, 2020

The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. If you throw a laptop away, the recycling companies have a very hard time figuring out the material composition.”. When you pick up something at the grocery store, it has a nutrition label. “If

Startups 84

Startups North America Blockchain Incubators 84

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.

Carbon 399

Carbon Blockchain Carbon-negative Biotech 399

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The waste- and chemical-free dye is then used to color the Sakura T-shirt, one of many clothing products the company has designed using natural or recycled products. To ensure transparency throughout the manufacturing process, each garment tag includes blockchain technology that shows the full history of the garment.

Blockchain 28

Blockchain Biodegradable Waste Waste 28

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.

Plastics 40

Plastics Carbon Blockchain Recycling 40

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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Biotech Government Medicine Blockchain 100

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. worth of bitcoin. What are NFTs?

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Blockchain Plastics Waste Waste 78

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.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Blockchain Africa Health 28

Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

A continued partnership with blockchain traceability experts Circulor also gives consumers information on where raw materials such as mica and cobalt are sourced. What gets measured gets done," said Fredrika Klarén?

Building Energy Monitoring 36

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Carbon Carbon-neutral 36

Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2020

The passport also aims to strengthen circularity through battery life extension and recycling. Consider the Mining and Metals Blockchain Initiative. In the private sector, we are increasingly seeing moves to address cross-industry challenges.

Batteries 45

Batteries Blockchain Carbon-negative Sustainability 45

EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nonetheless, according a soon-to-be published EDF report on how businesses are using “ Fourth Wave ” technologies (like AI, automation technologies, blockchain, data analytics and sensors), only 59% of business leaders surveyed are currently investing in innovative tech with sustainability and profitability in mind. Alphabet (Google).

Business Energy Monitoring 40

Business Energy Monitoring Innovation Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 40

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

McDonough: When we set up the circular economy, the first version for the 12th five-year plan, which came along later, it was interpreted really as "Please recycle." And even watching the Chinese put up the green fence on our recycling, they said, "We are just going to have to say no to all of this because they are sending us the worst of it."

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Carbon-negative Carbon Sustainability Recycling 522

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

UrbanChain is a start-up utilising AI and Blockchain to overcome some traditional obstacles. Peer-to-peer energy, on the other hand, offers a way “to link renewables directly to end users, creating an environment where energy is being bought and sold at a fair price while achieving true net zero through true green energy.”

Energy 256

Energy Energy Policy Government 256

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. The H&M Foundation and CO:LAB venture capital arm share a focus on advancing textile recycling. and globally by 2040.

Sustainability 522

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 522

Greentown Labs

JANUARY 30, 2020

One of the things that I think we will see is recycling infrastructure. It’s about how to make the business case and get the infrastructure paid for, and how to overcome some of the bottlenecks in materials recycling. That will require a lot of innovation, a lot of startups.

Sustainability 89

Sustainability Startups Innovation Recycling 89

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.

Fashion 36

Fashion Blockchain Carbon-neutral Innovation 36

AGreenLiving

MAY 19, 2020

The beermaker’s 2025 goals pledge bold advances in water strategy, returnable or recyclable packaging, renewable energy procurement (its U.S. Clancy: How has the situation affected your packaging commitments and recycling strategy, if at all? So, that’s our vision and our commitment. And yes, we are seeing impacts of this, too.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Recycling Recycling 28

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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Carbon-neutral Plastics Biodiversity Blockchain 485