Rems-Murr fits 390,000 wheelie bins with RFID chips and retires the waste sticker from 2027
Abfallwirtschaft Rems-Murr has fitted RFID chips to around 390,000 wheelie bins and 9,000 containers across 31 municipalities, with c-trace GmbH carrying out the work. It scraps roughly 250,000 fee stickers…
San Diego’s RFID bin programme: 231,178 tagged carts, and reading them is still a pilot
San Diego's Environmental Services Department has now delivered 231,178 RFID-tagged gray trash bins and pulled 257,508 old black ones, part of a 750,000-bin replacement. The tags went in for billing…
Massachusetts student wins award for developing printable, chipless RFID tag
Kevin Sun, 17, has won a $10,000 innovation award at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair for a chipless RFID tag printed directly onto plastic packaging. Made from conductive…
PulpaTronics co-founder Chloe So wins Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award
Chloe So, co-founder and chief executive of PulpaTronics, has been named a winner in Innovate UK’s 2026 Women in Innovation Awards, handing one of the UK’s more interesting sustainable RFID…
RFID In the Heatwave
I still remember the exact moment. Kuwait, mid-July, ambient temperature sitting at 50 degrees Celsius in the shade. I was on a refinery site, tasked with swapping out a LF…
How RFID Powers Reusable Packaging and Reduces Waste
Single-use packaging generates millions of tonnes of waste every year. Businesses across food service, logistics and retail are turning to reusable containers as a practical alternative, but managing those containers…
Ma Balise wins Jury Special Mention at Packaging Première Milano Avant-garde Awards 2026
A compostable NFC label just earned one of packaging’s most prestigious nods. Ma Balise, the Belgian distributor behind the Ephem smart label brand, has received a Jury Special Mention at…
RFID and Sustainability: Measuring the Environmental Impact
RFID technology is widely promoted as a tool for operational efficiency, but its relationship with sustainability deserves closer scrutiny. From reducing carbon emissions through smarter logistics to the environmental cost…
Insecticide in insect repellents impairs bumblebees’ ability to navigate
A new study by researchers at the University of Turku and the University of Oulu in Finland has revealed that prallethrin, a common insecticide found in mosquito repellent devices such…
Identiv receive product innovation award for their eco-friendly HF and UHF RFID tags
On the 28th March 2022, Lucintel announced that they had awarded Identiv’s Eco-Friendly High Frequency RFID tags (NFC tags) their “2021 Product Innovation Award in the RFID Market”. The paper…
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