Bio-Urja: low cost dry anerobic digestor

BioUrja is an efficient ready-to-assemble biogas generator from waste with remote monitoring system. Apart from producing biogas to replace fossil fuels, you also get organic manure as the byproduct. In addition, this relieves the need to treat hazardous human waste. BioUrja is an easy to setup solution with a two year payback time. The system provides biogas, avoiding emissions through fossil-fuels that would be used instead.

India

BIOBIM - Smart organic disposal

Corujão wrote: We solved the problem of disposing of organic waste through a smart bin that is able to weigh the organic waste deposited in it and is connected to an application that rewards citizens who collaborate in waste separation. Our app has a gamification, where there is a virtual plant that grows as the citizen deposits the waste and receives points that can be reversed into benefits. The waste is sold to companies that use the product as raw material and our system will manage the collection, on demand. So companies gain greater accessibility to materials and save on storage logistics... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Brazil

BioCircle-tech

BioCircle-tech wrote: We are producing a novel and natural spent coffee-based bio product, easily applied as a supplement for improved performances of animal feeds. Spent coffee grounds are residues that left behind in a quantities measurable in millions of tons, that mostly end up in landfill. We collect them and process within green technology, based on a unique combination of enzymatic and bacterial fermentation activity. The resulting product is enriched with physiologically essential compounds and exempted of anti-nutrients. It is several-fold health beneficial, being mainly intended for ruminants and highly recommended in lactating cows diet for improving the milk quality and reducing the risks of mastitis infections... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Serbia

Biodegradable biocomposites

Spawnfoam wrote: Spawnfoam aims at disrupting the biocomposite market by substantially eliminate plastic use. We have developed a new biocomposite material based in agroforestry wastes and inactivated fungi, whose first commercial application are plant pots that are environmental friendly, customizable, easy to use and increase the plant survival in forestation projects. Its possible applications are endless, such as packaging, plantation pots and boards for thermal and acoustic insulation... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

Biodegradable edible plastic from milk

Milkywaste-zero waste wrote: We can see a lot of alarming facts and figures about our planet slowly drowning in plastic waste. But at milkywaste we also noticed decreasing prices of bovine milk in europe on one hand and increased production of powdered milk on the other hand. This can cause eu farmers to lose their jobs and for all of us to lose our beloved planet. That is why we found an environmentally friendly way to use casein from milk to produce biodegradable and even edible plastic and coating for needs in the packaging industry. By using our products, you are prolonging the expiration date and quality of your products. Thereby increasing the shelf life and reducing waste and cost of waste transfer... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Slovenia

Biodegradable single use straws

Single Use Straw wrote: Plastic is well known as the new thread. The challenge to abandon single use plastic products is being encouraged, with straws to be one of the main products to be demolished. How can this become a fact, when there is great use of it these days and in some cultures, a necessity to enjoy the every day cold coffee or drink? . We are offering an alternative to plastic straws! - o - straws are made 100% by natural organic materials, using a mixture of wheat, natural resin and our secret formula, using organic leftovers such as peals from. Carrots and potatoes. A natural blend that can be used once and then thrown away without feeling guilty about it... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Cyprus

Biodegradable, compostable laminate film

LAM'ON wrote: Paper and plastic is usually not recycled once mixed together because water is used to break down paper and heat can be used to split down plastic. Furthermore most plastic coated papers are not suited to composting, but do variously end up in compost bins, sometimes even legally so. In this case, the remains of the non-biodegradble plastics components form part of the global microplastics waste problem. It would be so much easier, cheaper and faster if we had a truly biodegradable coating. Lam'on set out to develop a biodegradable and compostable laminating film in order to replace the plastic one, used in the printing industry. We want to change the way we think of printed media and upgrade the way we use and reuse it... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Bulgaria

Biofuels from Seaweed

Tide 2 Tank wrote: Tide 2 tank is a group of engineers seeking to establish large scale kelp farming on the coastal waters of south australia in order to provide a carbon neutral and cost competitive biomass that can be refined into biofuels. As a byproduct of this the biomass can be sold to a large number of markets for various product uses. The aqua farms themselves sequesters carbon from the ocean and help rehabilitate used fisheries an polluted waters... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Australia

BioGas Farming Systems

BioGas Farming wrote: Biogas farming system works on reducing waste produced by animals through the conversion of the waste into energy that can be used as a source of electricity, it also contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. We will work on providing generators that convert the waste into energy, inaddition to training the farmers on using these generators... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Sudan

Biogas-powered car leasing business

Biogas-powered wrote: Our target audience are big companies and individuals. Our solution is to lease the bio-cars to them instead of encouraging them into buying it. This will reduce their risk of changing type of cars, as they do not have to commit too much into something so new. We will talk to real estate companies and offer them bio-cars leasing service. This will free up more parking space in the residential area and add more values to their premises. To individual, we lease the car to them and they have the choice to use it or rent it to other people when their bio-cars are not in use. This increases the efficiency of the bio-cars and give people the opportunity for a one-man business, which is economically beneficial for them... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Finland