Industrial waste is a mounting global emergency, degrading ecosystems and undermining economies at every scale.
🔄 Linear Model Failure
Traditional take-make-dispose models are fundamentally unsustainable, generating waste faster than it can be managed.
🔍 Transparency Gap
Industries lack accountability across value chains, making it impossible to track, verify, and optimize material flows.
Introducing Digital Traceability: The Foundation for Change
The DigInTraCE Project is developing a transparent, interoperable, decentralized traceability platform using novel tracking, sensing, and sorting techniques to transform how industries manage materials.
Dynamic DPP Schemes
Digitally updated product passports supporting certification and quality validation across the full lifecycle.
Advanced reuse and upgrade systems transform secondary raw materials into high-value products.
Sector Impact
Creating new economic opportunities and digital skills in Pulp & Paper, Chemicals, and beyond.
Biochar: Turning Waste into a Carbon Goldmine
Biochar production is evolving into a structured carbon-removal pathway. Digital MRV (Measurement, Reporting, Verification) is essential for transparency and credibility in biochar operations.
Measurement
Real-time telemetry tracks reactor temperature, feedstock mass, char output, and energy consumption.
Reporting
Automated data structuring for clear communication.
Verification
Immutable digital records ensure trust.
88%
Stable Carbon Fraction
Resistant to degradation, enabling long-term carbon sequestration.
1.15–1.20
tCO₂eq per Tonne
Net emissions reduction per tonne of biochar produced.
Transparency from Source to Solution
The DigInTraCE platform creates an end-to-end digital thread — connecting raw material sourcing, processing, certification, reuse, and final disposal into a single verifiable, auditable system. Every stakeholder gains real-time visibility into material flows, quality data, and compliance status.
Circular Economy in Action: From Food Waste to Fertile Ground
High-moisture food waste digestate is difficult to valorize — but hydrothermal carbonization followed by high-temperature post-carbonization solves this challenge, turning waste into a powerful carbon sink.
💷 Cost-Effective Mitigation
Co-locating biochar facilities with digestate sources reduces GHG mitigation costs to <£100 per tCO₂eq.
🇬🇧 UK Scale Potential
Using 50% of the UK's projected food waste digestate by 2030 could sequester 93 ktCO₂eq per year, requiring just 28 biochar facilities.
🌱 Soil Health Benefits
Beyond carbon sequestration, biochar improves soil structure, water retention, and long-term agricultural productivity.
Energy Efficiency and Advanced Biofuels: A Greener Tomorrow
Carbon Intensity Reduction
Slow pyrolysis integrated with fast pyrolysis in decentralized biorefining systems delivers negative GHG emissions at scale.
–4.2 gCO₂e MJ⁻¹ for pyrolysis oil-based fuels
–20.2 gCO₂e MJ⁻¹ for FT-based fuels
100 MW integrated biorefinery capacity
Annual GHG Savings
A single integrated biorefinery delivers measurable, verifiable carbon reductions year over year.
13.3 ktons CO₂e/yr
Savings from pyrolysis oil pathways
6.8 ktons CO₂e/yr
Savings from FT-based fuel pathways
From Landfill to Carbon Sink
The transformation is real. Digital traceability makes it measurable, verifiable, and scalable. What was once waste destined for landfills becomes a registered carbon removal asset — tracked from reactor to field, with every tonne of CO₂eq accounted for in immutable digital records.
93K
tonnes CO₂eq/yr
Potential UK sequestration from food waste digestate biochar by 2030
28
Facilities Required
To achieve UK-scale biochar deployment from food waste streams
£100
per tCO₂eq
GHG mitigation cost threshold through co-located digestate processing
Industrial Waste Transformation: Beyond Disposal
Residuos Industriales
Digital traceability enables precise management and valorization of industrial waste streams — turning disposal costs into revenue opportunities through certified secondary material markets.
Eficiencia Energética
Integrated systems optimize energy consumption throughout the value chain, reducing waste and emissions while improving operational margins through AI-driven process control.
The Integrated Future
A fully digital value chain where waste is a resource, driving circularity and low emissions — with every transaction, certification, and carbon credit verified on a decentralized platform.
The Path Forward: Embrace Digitalization for a Sustainable Future
Digital traceability and circular economy principles are not just trends — they are necessities. Industries that adopt these technologies now will unlock new revenue streams, reduce environmental impact, and build lasting resilience.
🔗 Trace Everything
Deploy digital product passports across your value chain for full transparency.
♻️ Circulate Resources
Transform waste streams into certified secondary raw materials and carbon assets.
📊 Verify & Monetize
Use immutable MRV data to access carbon credits and green financing.