Kreiswerke Barnim replaces paper waste-fee stickers with RFID-chipped bins
Barnimer Dienstleistungsgesellschaft fitted RFID transponders to roughly 183,000 wheeled bins across Landkreis Barnim in Brandenburg during 2023, and from 1 January 2024 it empties chipped containers only. The annual coloured…
Athens deploys 12,100 RFID bin tags and 145 on-vehicle readers in integrated waste system
The Municipality of Athens has contracted 12,100 RFID tags for its waste bins and 145 readers for its refuse collection vehicles, plus weighing systems on 50 trucks and 1,000 fill-level…
Fossacesia tags 5,370 bins to bill households on residual waste from 2027
From 1 January 2027 Fossacesia in Abruzzo will bill 5,370 households and businesses on the residual waste they actually put out, using RFID tags on kerbside bins and sacks. Nearby…
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…
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…
Aligarh municipal commissioner to install RFID tags and QR codes on 260,000 buildings across the city
Aligarh Municipal Corporation plans to tag around 260,000 buildings across its 90 wards so property tax, user charges and fines sit on one digital record. The announcement is billed as…
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…
RFID and the Circular Economy: Closing the Loop on Product Lifecycles
The circular economy has a tracking problem. Products move through supply chains, into the hands of consumers, and then into waste streams with little visibility into what they are made…
WasteVision AI Introduces RFID Route Verification to Help Haulers Prove Contract Compliance
WasteVision AI has launched Route Verification, an AI-powered solution designed to give waste haulers verifiable proof of service for every stop on their collection routes. The Scottsdale, Arizona-based company announced…
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