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Blockchain set to transform quality assurance in the recycling market, suggests study

Envirotec Magazine

Blockchain technology will revolutionise the trade of recyclable materials by providing each part of the supply chain with vital data and assurance about the quality of secondary commodities, says The Recycling Association, following recent trials. The Traca is set up to facilitate this process.”

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VMWare's Pratima Rao Gluckman on using blockchain to rescue ocean-bound plastics

GreenBiz

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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Energy transmission on the blockchain conceptualised

Smart Energy International

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised a physics-based cryptocurrency that links electricity and blockchain technologies. On the one hand is the blockchain-based ‘stablecoin’, which is a cryptocurrency with a stable price relative to an external currency or asset. Have you read?

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Funding for plastic recycling tech

Envirotec Magazine

Greenback Recycling Technologies , a company striving to develop circular solutions for packaging waste, has closed an approximately £8m series A financing round. The firm says it is building a globally distributed, decentralised network of advanced recycling plants near the sources of plastic waste.

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Ecosystems for good: How collaborator networks achieve sustainability

GreenBiz

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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Episode 185: Word games, cool planes , Nori's blockchain-driven carbon removal mission

GreenBiz

Plus, many of those food waste stats you've heard don't include what's discarded at the farm. Tune in to hear about both the problem, and potential solutions.

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How Blockchain Technology Could Reduce Plastic Waste

Mr. Sustainability

‘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?