Engraving QR Code
Engraving the product with the QR Code, which corresponds to the NFT featuring the Carbon Label/ Scoring Ledger, is seemingly the best way to reduce the likelihood of the Ecosystem being tampered with. Sometimes bad actors will swap barcodes on items at stores to deceive the cashier and get a lower price on a similar product with more features. In the case of CEoT’s NFT QR-Codes, it wouldn’t be very feasible, effective or disruptive for bad actors to tamper with individual Clean Energy Things even if they were stuck onto the Thing and not engraved.
What is interesting is that fruit and vegetables can now be laser engraved. While this new method promises a positive environmental impact due to the reduced level of packaging required, or the need to peel a gluey-goo barcode from fresh fruit before you eat it. And the method claims not to accelerate the expiration date of the fruit or vegetable. It still doesn’t tackle the problem of carbon labelling, which would traditionally be on the packaging alongside other labels such as the manufacturer’s brand and the ingredients and allergy warnings e.g. contains nuts, dairy etc. On an apple for example, it would resemble an old graffitied wall. So the answer is a QR-Code containing all the aforementioned information, and at a stretch perhaps the brand logo. Until our planet’s needs are met and the threats to our planet are curbed, carbon labelling may need to have equal if not more emphasis than the Items retail price.
Finally laser engraving CEoT’s NFT QR-Codes on products leaves a miniscule carbon footprint, almost negligible, but at scale this is still a factor to consider when calculating CEoT’s own carbon footprint.