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Audi tags paint atomisers with RFID on 28 Ingolstadt robots for demand-driven maintenance
Twenty-eight painting robots in Audi's new topcoat line at Ingolstadt now carry RFID on every atomiser component. Dürr and Kathrein Solutions developed transponders with bespoke antenna geometry that read reliably…
Inditex, Tageos and JD Sports headline a packed day two at RAIN in Action Madrid 2026
An extra 150 delegates arrived for day two of RAIN in Action Madrid 2026, filling the room for a session that ran from RAIN Alliance awards to Inditex's 5,000 store-entrance…
Mainzer Weinmarkt tracks reusable dishes by RFID through eight deposit return machines
Eight automated deposit return machines stood in the Mainz Stadtpark for the 2026 Mainzer Weinmarkt, reading an RFID chip in every plate and bowl to refund deposits and sort dishes…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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