Council Post: The Circular Economy And Sustainability Powered By Blockchain
The future circular economy and blockchain use cases look positive as more and more brands turn toward adopting a circular economy.
Source: www.forbes.com
The future circular economy and blockchain use cases look positive as more and more brands turn toward adopting a circular economy.
Source: www.forbes.com
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The linear economy is currently the standard practice in every sector of our economies. Real estate is no exception. Decades of mass-production created the conditions of the mass-disposal model we live in where throwing away is easier, faster and costless than fixing.
Innovative businesses are now realising that deploying an eco-conscious tangential change in their material sourcing is what the consumers of 2019 want.
As part of the new Industrial Strategy set forward by the European Commission, rules designed to combat the throw away culture of today might have a significant impact on the mobile sector.
The technology could allow scientists to both capture CO2 and transform it into useful chemicals such as carbon monoxide and synthetic natural gas in one circular process. Dr Melis Duyar, Senior Lecturer of Chemical Engineering at the University of Surrey commented: “Capturing CO2 from the surrounding air and directly converting it into useful products is exactly what we need to approach carbon neutrality in the chemicals sector. This could very well be a milestone in the steps needed for the UK to reach its 2050 net-zero goals. “We need to get away from our current thinking on how we produce chemicals, as current practices rely on fossil fuels which are not sustainable. With this technology we can supply chemicals with a much lower carbon footprint and look at replacing fossil fuels with carbon dioxide and renewable hydrogen as the building blocks of other important chemicals.”
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