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"Clothing tags, travel cards, hotel room key cards, parcel labels … a whole
host of components in supply chains of everything from cars to clothes. What do
they have in common? RFID tags.
Every RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag contains a microchip and a tiny
metal strip of an antenna. A cool 18bn of these are made – and disposed of –
each year. And with demands for product traceability increasing, ironically in
part because of concerns for the social and environmental health of the supply
chain, that’s set to soar.
And guess where most of these tags end up? Yup, landfill – adding to the
burgeoning volumes of e-waste polluting our soils, rivers and skies. It’s a
sorry tale, but it’s one in which two young graduates of Imperial College
London and Royal College of Art are putting a great big green twist. Under the
name of PulpaTronics, Chloe So and Barna Soma Biro reckon they’ve hit on a
beguilingly simple sounding solution: make the tags out of paper. No plastic,
no chips, no metal strips. Just paper, pure and … simple … ? Well, not quite,
as we shall see."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
