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The PPWR blind spot: why your RFID tag is now the weakest link in your compliance chain

The PPWR blind spot: why your RFID tag is now the weakest link in your compliance chain

Under the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation the tag is a packaging component, not a tracking tool. If its antenna is a continuous sheet of metal, the technical file…

Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey cuts annual shrink from $1.49m to $154,000 with item-level RFID

Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey cuts annual shrink from $1.49m to $154,000 with item-level RFID

Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia says item-level RFID cut its annual shrink from more than $1.49 million to about $154,000, on a $1.2 million investment it puts…

Bovine EID tags available in Northern Ireland from 7 September – DAERA

Bovine EID tags available in Northern Ireland from 7 September – DAERA

From 7 September 2026 Northern Ireland becomes the first UK region to offer electronic ID tags for cattle, on a voluntary basis. The low frequency tags cost about GBP 1.50…

Dyson Puts an RFID Tag in Every Brush Head of Its CameraJet Toothbrush

Dyson Puts an RFID Tag in Every Brush Head of Its CameraJet Toothbrush

Every brush head on the Dyson CameraJet, the company's first electric toothbrush, carries an RFID tag that counts cleaning sessions and tells the handle which head is fitted. Launched on…

The Walmart RFID mandate in 2026: what suppliers must do, who is exempt and what comes next

The Walmart RFID mandate in 2026: what suppliers must do, who is exempt and what comes next

Walmart's item-level RFID programme now covers essentially all general merchandise, with compliance enforced through chargebacks in 2026. What the mandate actually requires, from ARC-approved inlays to GS1 serialisation, who is…

IDCRAFT launches IDSCOUT Encode, an NFC encoding station where the AI never writes

IDCRAFT launches IDSCOUT Encode, an NFC encoding station where the AI never writes

IDCRAFT has made its IDSCOUT Encode NFC encoding station generally available. An operator describes the job in plain language, a language model running locally on the device interprets it and…

Hospital Albert Einstein saves R$1.5m a year on linen with RFID

Hospital Albert Einstein saves R$1.5m a year on linen with RFID

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo has saved R$1.5 million a year on linen control alone, with 120,000 textile pieces individually tagged and 500 rooms inventoried by RFID reading…

Kontich scraps bin bags as pay-by-weight waste collection begins

Kontich scraps bin bags as pay-by-weight waste collection begins

Kontich, south of Antwerp, dropped plastic refuse bags on 1 September 2026 and moved to chipped wheelie bins weighed on the lorry. Residents pay EUR 0.35 a kilo for residual…

Dutch frame maker Van de Vin cuts €30,000 a year in printing with embedded RFID dowels

Dutch frame maker Van de Vin cuts €30,000 a year in printing with embedded RFID dowels

Timber window and door frame manufacturer Van de Vin has replaced paper drawings on its factory floor with UHF RFID tags embedded in the frames themselves, in a deployment built…

RFID for SMEs: Is It Finally Affordable for Smaller Businesses?

RFID for SMEs: Is It Finally Affordable for Smaller Businesses?

Passive UHF inlays that cost 20 to 30 cents a few years ago now sell for 5 to 8 cents, and entry-level fixed readers have dropped under $500. Add cloud…