• Porsche tracks plastics blockchain
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    Porsche turns to blockchain to track plastics, sustainability

    Blockchain firm Circularise will help the German automaker track the provenance and use of sustainable materials on public blockchains

    Porsche and its material suppliers Borealis, Covestro, and Domo Chemicals will use Circularise’s technology to trace the plastics used in Porsche cars on a blockchain. The project aims to “ensure that the use of sustainable materials in Porsche cars can be proven.”

  • A WEF initiative may soon let you see what companies are lying about their environmental record via the blockchain (via Pixabay).
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    WEF project will use blockchain to expose corporate ‘greenwashing’

    The World Economic Forum’s Global Ledger project seeks to bring sunshine to businesses’ environmental promises

    A new initiative announced Tuesday by the World Economic Forum seeks to use blockchain technology to prevent “greenwashing” by companies that make public promises to improve their environmental credentials.