vTech

vTech wrote: Sustainable water treatment is one of the most urgent challenges of the 21st century. Freshwater supplies are limited and the treatment of (waste)water requires increasing amounts of energy (water-energy nexus). The present state-of-the-art water treatment technology is membrane treatment. The major hurdle for membrane applications, however, is membrane blocking (fouling) and the challenge of a reliable process control. As a consequence membrane operation (1) requires higher pressure and energy demands, (2) loses productivity, and (3) is limited in a tailored process control... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Germany

WAIR

WAIR wrote: Wair is on a mission to give discarded textiles a new life through the power of upcycling. In our first product, we transform "unperfect" jeans and workwear into modern and sustainable sneakers. Textile upcycling is overlooked in the circular fashion agenda, but it is a powerful recirculation strategy, that minimizes the need for new virgin material, and retains the value in the discarded fabrics. Apart from shoes, we also include the consumers in the production of upcycled fashion through upcycling workshops. Here we empower people to take up the fight against fast fashion while getting to create unique fashion pieces and letting their creativity loose... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Walk4Air

Walk4Air wrote: Owning to smartphones and smartwatches, individuals' activity can be monitored. Walking/cycling distance can be tracked and quantified by these two devices. This quantified data can be reflected anyhow we wish; for example, as earned points, giving the idea of a rewarding system. Rewarding walking/cycling can motivate people enough to change their transportation habits. More people decide to increase walking and cycling activity in their daily life, more their carbon footprint can be reduced. The key here is to reward them enough to make people change their transportation habits. So what if the earned points from walking/cycling could be exchanged to something that people need and value the most; money... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Ireland

Waste GOrganic

Waste GOrganic wrote: Food waste is the last thing we think about,but is a fact-food wastage is 1. 3 bln tonnes anually and the cost of food that goes to waste is $750 billion. And there we have a brilliant solution;this doesn't mean reducing the consumption of food,but rather creating and sell a product that remains in the entire chain of food transformations and returns in it's primal state in the form of an organic fertilizer for the soil. This fertilizer will serve farmers an alternative choice to chemical fertilizers that will be made by composters with advanced technologies in composting. The raw material will be taken from local supermarkets,hotels and restaurants... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Moldova, Republic of

Waste to energy

JSP wrote: Jsp is involved in development of microbial fuel cell (mfc) technology to treat textile effluent and generate energy in terms of electricity. At present the target segment is the dyeing industry. We aim to target the small dyeing units who cannot afford the large common effluent treatment plants (cetps). Uniqueness of our technology: • energy positive effluent treatment technology – net zero opex, & carbon neutral process . • typical payback time is 5 years, contributed by: energy savings, reduction in excess sludge quantity and tax/ carbon credits. • suitable even for small installations, with organic load as low as 100 kg bod per day. • our product can be scaled up/down based on the requirements, with minimal maintenance... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Waste to feed solutions

Weendle wrote: Everything we do is to empower people to live in dignity, by rethinking and implementing innovative waste solutions. In weendle, we transform waste into feedstock with exceptionally high protein and fat content. This highly scalable and rapid process is carried out by our army of black soldier fly larvae. These exceptional creatures in combination with the skills and knowledge of our human agents, reka gugan and mathieu chaix-bar have the ability to prove that waste could and in fact, should be perceived as food/feed. Our business case to bring this mix into the market of africa will shed light on how we intend to achieve this. Hungry for more? stay tuned!.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Netherlands

Waste to Wealth Innovative Technologies LLP

Waste to Wealth Innovative Technologies LLP wrote: We develop microbial processes to treat dairy waste water to generate value added product like biofertilizer that can replace use of chemical fertilizer and fresh water for irrigation. The crop production increases, ensuring healthy food, the fresh water misuse (90%) for agriculture is stopped while the dairy industry saves on land use for effluent treatment plant construction (reduced by 75%), saves on electricity for processing (by 90%), reduces time of treatment (7. 5times) and hence efficiency of the plant. In addition they become a zero discharge company which produces biofertilizer... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Waste, renewable and solar heat, 24/7

Capricorn Power wrote: Our vision is to commercialise a new, renewable source of 24/7 electricity, and to deploy it globally. . Capricorn power has a novel heat engine, based on a proven thermodynamic cycle, with patented innovations which result in the ability to use a wide range of heat sources (biogas, biomass, concentrated solar thermal, industrial waste heat), and high efficiency in converting heat to electricity (even at small scale, < 100 kw). . The high efficiency at small scale allows us to go to the source of the waste; reducing transport, increasing electricity value (retail rather than wholesale) and enabling the beneficial use of cogeneration. Our system uses mostly off-the-shelf components, resulting in capital efficiency. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Australia

WasteAway

WasteAway wrote: In wasteaway we believe that every resource that ends up in a garbage bin is a wasted resource. We want to reduce the usage of single-use plastic with a reusable food container system. Our market is restaurants that sell takeaway food. We, wasteaway, sell rental reusable food containers to restaurant clients for 2,5€ per container. By using our system, only with our beachhead market (tallinn), we save over 9 million single-use food containers amount of trash. Our service is based on the circular economy. Our clients will purchase food from a restaurant with our lunch box and pay a deposit for it. After eating, the box can be returned to our reverse vending machine and the customer gets back the amount of deposit money... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

WasteDecreaser

WasteDecreaser wrote: We want to improve people's life quality , and give simple way to reuse and utilize plastic bottles. Our solution is in neighbourhoods where there are no recycle containers , provide people with some type of machine that will cut bottles into long and thin stripes . Then people can easily carry this waste or you use is as a helpful tool in the garden . For an example gardeners can simply organize their workspace by keeping plant bonded by stripes. Everyone can use this strips for different purposes and no matter how old or who are you. Our team members observe this problem every day, cause we can feel this pain, living in different parts of town where people dont have any possibilities to sort waste... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Belarus