Deposy and the Ecological Footprint

The Ecological Footprint plays an increasingly important role for many companies as well as consumers. In particular the carbon footprint of a product is becoming more and more important in our world. With our Deposy system we are able to capture and provide plastic with a product identity on the Tangle. This allows the Deposy system to map the entire chain from manufacturing to collection by the recycler.

Why is this important? The production of plastic is very energy intensive. One ton of plastic releases about 4 tons of CO2. When using recycled plastic, only about half of the CO2 is released. Our product identity system can record and store how much CO2 was released for the production of a plastic cup (for example). By recording in our machine, the recycler can directly read which amount of CO2 characterizes the content of the machine. That’s exactly the value that will be needed in the future, in a CO2 avoidance system.

We have already solved many things and can rely on them. Nonetheless there are many open tasks. With regard to the overall system we also focus on cooperations, because some things have already been worked out by other players. Although there are no ready-made solutions, we cooperate with partners to put things into practice.