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Circular Economy in ICT – Completing the circle of supply

EcoVadis

Accordingly, enormous amounts of electronic waste, which largely end up in landfills and outside of legal take-back systems , along with all well known environmental impacts, continue to rise. Accordingly, the industry will be responsible for 1.25Gt CO2e in 2030, or 1.97 percent of global emissions ( Fibre-Systems 2017 ).

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The Future of Analytics in Integrated Business Planning

Supply Chain Trend

TomTom , a Dutch mapmaker and traffic company launched their first portable GPS system in 2002. It has 3D maps in Silicon Valley in support of US tech companies and is partnering with Bosch – a world leading German electronics provider to the car industry – to make rapid progress to 3D map other parts of the world.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

China’s low prices have historically undercut global prices and pushed out foreign competitors –– such as the Mountain Pass mine in California, which closed in 2002. Since the 1990s, China has supplied the lion’s share of the world’s demand for REEs. The role of blockchain. Introduction to available tools.