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Filtered by Sustainability — 18 articles

Nicola Sudan

31 May 2026

4 min read

Natural Branding: When the Product Becomes the Label

The idea that a product can authenticate itself has long fascinated the security and traceability industry. In sectors ranging from banknotes and identity documents to luxury goods and pharmaceuticals, technology providers have increasingly explored the use of intrinsic physical characteristics as a means of authentication – turning naturally occurring randomness into a unique fingerprint.

Strategies Sustainability

Nicola Sudan

30 Oct. 2025

4 min read

Tamil Nadu Leads Again: First with Tax Stamps, Now QR Buy-Back Schemes

The Excise Department of Tamil Nadu, India, has issued a tender for a digital platform and unique QR code stickers to support a buy-back scheme for empty liquor containers. The codes will be affixed to liquor, beer, and wine containers sold through state-run retail outlets across Tamil Nadu. These outlets (known as TASMAC – Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation – outlets) play a central role in the legal sale of alcohol in the state, given that Tamil Nadu maintains a monopoly on such sales.

Sustainability Tax Stamps Tenders

Chander S Jeena

4 May 2025

3 min read

Recycling, Circular Economy and Authentication

As sustainability gains momentum, recycling alone is no longer enough. The circular economy promotes reuse, repair, and recycling to reduce waste and keep resources in use longer. But as recycled products go mainstream, challenges arise – especially the risk of greenwashing and fake or mislabelled goods claiming to be eco-friendly.

Sustainability

Chander S Jeena

30 March 2025

1 min read

Pragmatic Launch NFC Connect for Authentication

UK-based chip company Pragmatic Semiconductor has announced the launch of its latest radio frequency identification (RFID) near-field communication (NFC) product line, Pragmatic NFC Connect.

Sustainability

Stefaan D’Hoore

28 July 2024

2 min read

Deposit Return Schemes: An Efficient Way to Combine a Tax Excise System with the Circular Economy

This article presents an integrated approach for ensuring producers of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) correctly report the volumes they put on the market (POM) and pay the appropriate SSB taxes and recycling fees.

Sustainability Track and Trace

Alan Hodgson

20 May 2024

4 min read

Sustainability – The Business Case

An article in the April 2024 edition of this newsletter examined the drivers to sustainable practices in brand protection. The aim of this article is to extend this examination into the business case for sustainability, which is more than simply being seen as a good corporate citizen.

Sustainability

Alan Hodgson

17 April 2024

4 min read

Drivers for Sustainability in Brand Protection

Products are already starting to appear in this sector. For example, Authentication & Brand News, March 2024, contained an article on sustainable tamper-evident closure seals.

Sustainability

Chander S Jeena

8 March 2024

3 min read

Sustainable Innovations Around Tamper Proofing

As sustainability becomes an ever-present item on board meeting agendas, we notice the emergence of many new eco-friendly security solution developments, including sustainable closure seals that provide tamper evidence.

Sustainability

Nicola Sudan

24 Nov. 2023

2 min read

France First Country to Launch Digimarc Recycle

Digital watermarking specialist Digimarc Corporation has announced that France will be the first country to implement Digimarc Recycle on a nationwide basis, for the sorting and recycling of plastic waste.

Sustainability

Nicola Sudan

8 Nov. 2022

2 min read

OpSec Eco – Smart, Clean and Green

Like all progressive companies operating in the authentication and brand protection sectors, OpSec Security is committed to sustainability in its processes and products – as its new product line OpSec® Eco demonstrates.

Sustainability

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Dr Nathalie Muller

25 April 2022

4 min read

Completing the Circle

The circular economy presents a $4.5 trillion business opportunity for companies that concentrate on rethinking products and services using principles based on durability, renewability, reuse, repair, replacement, upgrades, refurbishment, and reduced material use.

Sustainability

Astrid Mitchell

25 April 2022

2 min read

Digital Identities for Reusable Packaging

Flexible electronics developer PragmatIC Semiconductor has announced its involvement in leading an Innovate UK, Smart Sustainability Plastic Packaging business project that will make reusable plastic packaging systems a reality at scale.

Sustainability

Nicola Sudan

23 March 2022

3 min read

Watermarks for Less Waste

Digital watermark specialist Digimarc was recently featured in a news clip from the BBC, the UK’s broadcaster, on how invisible watermarks could increase plastic recycling. The clip explored industry testing efforts in Europe and discussed packaging attributes that could be identified through the use of Digimarc’s technology, giving plastic packaging a so-called ‘voice’.

Sustainability

Francis Tuffy

1 March 2022

3 min read

Securikett IoT Platform and Labels at Heart of New Packaging Recycling Project

The Austrian pilot project ‘Digi-Cycle’ – supported by the Austrian drinks industry to facilitate householding recycling of beverage containers through a rewards scheme – took place last August and September. Central to the pilot were tamper-evident labels and a system for generating limitless UIDs by Austrian security solutions provider Securikett.

Sustainability

Francis Tuffy

1 March 2022

1 min read

KURZ Goes Green with Eco Label Range

Optical and materials security specialist KURZ has introduced a range of sustainable security labels as part of its TRUSTCONCEPT® brand portfolio. According to the company, the combination of its security features with individually combinable, environmentally friendly substrates means that customers can benefit from sustainable labels without forgoing its tried-and-tested security technology.

Sustainability

Francis Tuffy

1 March 2022

2 min read

Silkworms Spin New User Authentication

A group of academics at South Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) have utilised natural silk fibres from domesticated silkworms to build an environmentally friendly digital security system that they say is ‘practically unbreachable’.

Sustainability

Alan Hodgson

24 Dec. 2021

4 min read

Sustainability in Product Labelling - Some Thoughts on the Future

Over the last few years, sustainability has moved up the corporate agenda, from a ‘nice to have’ to a ‘must have’ for shareholders, investors and customers. There is, and will continue to be a growing need for printing, labelling, track and trace and packaging companies to step up to the mark on sustainability.

Sustainability

Alan Hodgson

28 Oct. 2021

5 min read

Recycling Technology – A Traceability Opportunity?

The purpose of this article is to outline the reasons we should look at the technologies being deployed for recycling as a potential opportunity. We will look at three technologies in various states of development and set them in context of our industry.

Sustainability Technology & Systems

Latest News

Natural Branding: When the Product Becomes the Label

Tamil Nadu Leads Again: First with Tax Stamps, Now QR Buy-Back Schemes

Recycling, Circular Economy and Authentication

Pragmatic Launch NFC Connect for Authentication

Deposit Return Schemes: An Efficient Way to Combine a Tax Excise System with the Circular Economy

Sustainability – The Business Case

Drivers for Sustainability in Brand Protection

Sustainable Innovations Around Tamper Proofing

France First Country to Launch Digimarc Recycle

OpSec Eco – Smart, Clean and Green

Completing the Circle

Digital Identities for Reusable Packaging

Watermarks for Less Waste

Securikett IoT Platform and Labels at Heart of New Packaging Recycling Project

KURZ Goes Green with Eco Label Range

Silkworms Spin New User Authentication

Sustainability in Product Labelling - Some Thoughts on the Future

Recycling Technology – A Traceability Opportunity?

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