RFID logs every wash cycle as Cheonan opens AI-inspected reusable delivery container centre
Every stainless steel container in Itgreen's Returnit scheme, launched in Cheonan on 28 August 2026, carries an RFID tag recording supply, collection, wash and per-item cycle count. That is the…
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…
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 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…
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…
Pragmatic Semiconductor wins RFID Product Gold Prize at IOTE 2026 for its flexible NFC portfolio
Pragmatic Semiconductor has taken the RFID Product Gold Prize at the IOTE 2026 Innovative Product Awards in Shenzhen for its flexible NFC chips, NFC Connect PR1301 and NFC Protect PR1311.…
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…
Inside the EU DPP Registry: What the New Rules Actually Mean for RFID
The EU Digital Product Passport Registry has been live since 20 July and its operating rules took effect on 6 August, yet nobody can register the first mandated passport because…
Edgbaston Stadium’s achieve 98.79% return rate on cups in a UK First for cricket grounds.
Edgbaston Stadium got 98.79 per cent of its reusable cups back on a 20,000-guest match day, the first UK deployment of Aucxis's STAR RFID cup system and a first for…
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