Imagine every piece of industrial waste had a digital birth certificate that followed it forever. This system uses smart tags and AI to track exactly what a material is made of and where it came from. It's like a digital passport that tells a recycler exactly how to treat a material so it can be used again instead of thrown away.
Industrial value chains suffer from a lack of transparency regarding material composition and origin. This makes it difficult and risky to use secondary raw materials, leading to excessive waste and high emissions.
A decentralized traceability platform using blockchain and AI, combined with HSI-based material sensing and sorting hardware and dynamic Digital Product Passports.
If you are a car parts manufacturer dealing with plastic waste from vehicle interiors — this project developed a digital product passport that tracks material composition. This allows you to recover and reuse secondary raw materials more efficiently.
If you are a composite wood producer dealing with inconsistent quality of recycled chips — this project developed HSI-based sensing and sorting systems. This ensures the secondary raw materials meet quality standards for new furniture production.
If you are an ICT equipment recycler dealing with complex polymer blends in plastic casings — this project developed a decentralized traceability platform using blockchain. This provides near real-time information on material origin to increase the value of recovered plastics.
Based on available project data, specific pricing or implementation costs are not provided.
The project is validating technologies in real-world pilots across 4 countries, including multi-pilot sorting systems for wood and plastics.
Based on available project data, specific licensing terms are not mentioned, though the project aims to contribute to open and easy accessible data.
Yes, it supports the European Green Deal and the Circular Economy Action Plan by using PEF-aligned LCA tools to track environmental indicators.
It uses a decentralized platform based on Hyperledger Fabric and dynamic Digital Product Passports for real-time data exchange.
The consortium is heavily industry-driven with a 59% industry ratio, comprising 16 companies including 10 SMEs. This strong commercial presence, balanced by 4 universities and 5 research centers across 7 countries, suggests the results are designed for practical market application rather than theoretical research.
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