UrbaGarden

UrbaGarden wrote: Have you ever wondered where the food that you consume comes from? . We at urbagarden present a simple, sustainable and innovative way for growing fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs from the comfort of your home, a modular unit made from recycled materials for home-based indoor gardening. Urbagarden helps to reduce carbon emissions created by conventional agriculture by almost 90% per kilogram of produce and since our units are made from recycled materials this gives additional benefits to the environment. You will have access to fresh fruits, herbs, vegetables, and a feeling of satisfaction of growing your own food and educating your children in the process, while at the same time having a positive impact on the environment... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Serbia

Upcycling food

Glean wrote: Glean meets the demand for plant-based foods while reducing emissions and using byproducts from cooking traditionally thought of as waste. The first ‘waste’ product our company is utilizing is the water from cooking beans, aka aquafaba. We are developing aquafaba into an egg replacer that can be used in pastries, condiments and meals. Our first product is eggless flødeboller. We are also developing a dehydrated ready-to-use egg-replacer... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Upcycled marine plastic to textile

Skizo wrote: Transforming plastic collected form the ocean to textile and then we use our textile to produce handmade and customized sneakers and accessories... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

Unleashing vehicles with thermal Imaging

HeatGrade wrote: In 2007, google unleashed a fleet of cars with roofmounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world. Now ysi spinout heatgrade is bringing similar "drive-by" innovations to energy efficiency in homes and businesses. Heatgrade deploys trucks and cars with thermal-imaging rooftop rigs that create heat maps of thousands of homes and buildings per hour, detecting fixable leaks in "building envelopes"—windows, doors, walls, and foundations—to help owners curb energy loss... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

unintentionally circular

unintentionally circular wrote: To find a solution for our initial challenge "how can the cities and/or the citizens of the ruhr area support a more circular lifestyle", we as a team first though ourselves about barriers and also catalyzers to act in a circular way as ordinary citizens. To understand better, how the actual citizens in ruhr area feel about circular economy and the related consumption and daily behaviour, we went outside on the streets to ask for their pains and gains concerning to the circular consumption. The main output of this survey was actually the fact, that a lot of people are already show circular behaviour and ways of consuming, but they actually don't know about it or don't want to show it... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Umweltlink AG

Umweltlink AG wrote: Many types of industrial waste-water cannot be treated by conventional sewage plants. In developing countries, they go into rivers untreated. In highly developed countries they are burnt at very high cost. We have developed a low-cost technology to treat industrial waste-water. The scientific description of our technology is oxidative reduction of chemicals in aqueous systems with internal superoxide support. We call it orcaswiss. The orcaswiss reactor takes in industrial wastewater and treats if with air and hydrogen peroxide. The reactor lets out clean water which can be treated further and ultimately produce drinking water... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Switzerland

Ultrasonic flow enhancement cold-and hot-runner injection moulding

Soniplas is a new innovation with the potential to transform plastic injection moulding energy efficiency. It utilises ultrasonic energy, applied to the molten polymer as it is injected into the mould, providing a temporary reduction in viscosity as the polymer melt fills the tool, enabling a temperature reduction for the molten polymer of up to 50C - reducing the energy requirement for both heating and cooling after moulding. Matrix Moulding Systems’ Sonimelt technology covers a wide range of applications in the injection moulding sector. It can be retrofitted to existing moulding machines.

United Kingdom

Ubabio biomass energy solutions

Ubabio Biomass Energy Solutions wrote: We utilize locally available resources to create an innovative technology that recycle organic wastes into biomass energy, in form of green biomass briquettes. The briquettes are manufactured from organic garbage and provide a more ecological alternative to traditional charcoal or wood fuel which directly contributes to deforestation. Our product is sustainable, affordable, reliable, and long lasting, clean cooking fuel. . By replacing wood-based charcoal with sustainable biomass briquettes we help to improve the livelihoods of millions of people, increase natural carbon sequestration and support the local communities’ ability to respond to the challenges of climate change, as well as improve environmental sanitation... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Nigeria

Turning useless sludge to useful raw materials

Byeplastic wrote: Byeplastic will be. Activated mainly in a wastewater treatment plant. Where we can exploit the useless sewage sludge to produce a raw material used by bioplastic manufacturers. The whole process outweighs the advantages of other kinds of plastic production as it can reduce the co2 emissions during the production and hence downgrade the importance of petroleum to our lives. It is also costless and biodegradable thanks to its raw material. Our target is to be drastic to pitch in the climate change, changing the plastic!.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Greece

Turning abandoned mineral waste into insulation

FenX wrote: Thermal insulation materials are mostly flammable, toxic and having high carbon footprint due to the production process. After the london grenfell fire in 2017, there are increasing demands for non-flammable insulation materials. To address this need, a new type of non-flammable insulation foam is developed at eth zurich. The foam is produced from non-toxic materials and has zero co2 emission during production... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Switzerland