Smart Microorganisms at Work: Turning Waste into Bioplastic
How a waste product like pentose wood sugars is transformed into bioplastic and can be used as a new resource for plastic coatings and packaging. So called 1st generation biofuels are based on materials such as corn...
Blockchain for Circular Supply Chain
Blockchain technology enables us to digitize and streamline the supply chain workflows to improve efficiency, reduce costs and improve management of resources, compliance and risks. What are the current Supply Chain...
Sustainability and Compliance – what keeps companies busy in 2018
In the beginning of the year iPoint started to conduct the Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2018. As a result, over 350 participants already gave information on the top challenges they are facing in their...
Clevere Mikroorganismen am Werk: Aus Abfall wird Biokunststoff
So genannte Biokraftstoffe der ersten Generation basieren auf Materialien wie Mais, Zuckerrohr, Weizen oder Raps. Sie basieren somit auf den gleichen Ressourcen, die auch für die Lebensmittelproduktion wichtig sind...
Towards a Digital Circular Economy
Take – make – use – dispose is causing increasingly scarce resources, environmental pollution and social exploitation. This is the still prevailing linear economy system. The linear economy system Products which are...
Digital Circular Economy – The Digital Revolution of the Circular Economy
In contrast to the linear economy (take, make, use, dispose), the circular economy approach does not see an absolute end to a product or process. iPoint’s holistic, circular perspective envisages a continuous...