Zero Hero

Zero Hero wrote: Bin. The smart bin by zero hero has a transparent front which allows the user to see the trash as it collects. Having the trash visible at all times will help people develop a better connection to the waste they produce, and increase accountability. A scale is printed on the front window, indicating a score to be used in the gamification process. The scale is different for each material type, and makes it clear that landfill is the worst type of trash and should be avoided. Finally, the bins are fully colour coded, and have a graphic on the lid illustrating which items are accepted in each bin to comply with the german public waste management rules, educating users while removing as much margin of error as possible... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Color of Bacteria

Vienna Textile Lab wrote: The vienna textile lab is identifying bacteria, growing bacteria, extracting colourants and purifying the pigments in order to sell them to textile companies... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Make insect farming simple

FreezeM wrote: Insects have the potential of becoming a central resource in the feed industry. But in order to replace traditional feed ingredients such as fishmeal, they must be produced at an industrial scale with high stability and quality. Currently, each insect farm has to maintain the entire life cycle internally in order to supply its own demand for eggs. This process is inefficient and costly, making it very difficult to increase the production scale. Our product is viable frozen insect eggs. These eggs can be supplied on-demand to any player in the growing industry of insect protein production... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Israel

Dispo

Dispo wrote: Coming from the above mentioned situation, dispo is the idea of a technology that could reduce the volume of the already generated waste down to only 10% of the original volume. As result, it will reduce the number of visits of the waste transport vehicles and aconsequently reduce the service fees and the co2emissions associated with the process. Such technology already exist in the markets at bigger sizes for the waste to energy power plants, as it improves the calorific properties of waste based fuels. But till now does not exist for kitchen or building sizes . Dispo will be designed in different sizes 1- kitchen size that could treat 5 kg/day of house/office use... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Touch-free shower technology

Sh2ower wrote: Sh2ower is designed to prevent unreasonable water draining. It senses when you are under it and lets the water flow on you. Besides, it saves energy used for heating and it also reduces your bills. . Everybody takes shower. In apartments, villas, dorms and especially in hostels and hotels which is our initial market. If for example all hotels in the us switch to sh2ower, it will save them $1b every year. . How it works. Simply remove the old head and install sh2ower and you are ready to go. If you step aside for any reason like soaping, shampooing or taking a selfie it automatically stops the stream. To warn you that the water is too hot it also automatically stops water at 50 degrees celsius. Batteries are recharged as the water runs... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

YVY Brasil

YVY Brasil wrote: 90%+ of usual home cleaning products are actually water ! the remaining 5-10% are petrochemical, chlorine and phosphates. Why do they keep moving millions of tons of water around ? why using an enormous amount of plastic bottles to pack all this water ? our oceans know where this sad story will finish up. Yvy (which means soil/land in tupi-guarany, the language of most important native indigenous tribe in brazil) was created to break up this insane chain and disrupt this market. We use only natural/vegetable ingredients in our formulas ! yvy developed small recyclable plastic capsules to carry on our super concentrated formulas reducing by 2/3 the amount of plastic used compared to the current competitors... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Intelligent heating and cooling for buildings

Henan Runheng Energy Maganement Co., LTD have developed intelligent heating and cooling technology for building by recharging shallow geothermal energy in the same well. The company claims that their technology matches the amount of effluent to backwater and reaches adequate heat exchange between backwater and soil. This greatly improves the efficiency of the heat pump unit. In the full closed cycle, water remains unpolluted. Furthermore, the technology overcomes the defect of water heat pump recharging in multiple wells. It solves the problem of the heat source well blockage and declining water levels.

China

Flowmetrics

Flowmetrics wrote: Flowmetrics’ dynamic flood flow management helps cities to tackle urban flooding in a way that is intelligent, cost-effective and citizen-inclusive. The tool identifies urban flood risk hotspots and nearby areas that can withstand a lot of water, and quantifies their absorption capacity by using a distributed network of sensors as well as satellite imagery wherever possible. During a flood, highly impacted areas are connected with the identified absorbing areas by using mobile infrastructure that can easily be put in place by citizens and professionals... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Use no-longer-usable textiles

Back to life wrote: People tend to buy new clothes, wear it for some time until it becomes used. Then they either. Collect it in their closets or just throw away into the dump and buy new one. So this circle goes. Again and again. Our idea is to collect already used textile to create new unique products (clothes, accessories). This is one of the ways how we could reduce the amount of textile in landfills and show that even old fabric can be brought back to life again... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Lithuania

SR BIN

SR BIN wrote: From plastic, polythene to metal and even paper the fmcg sector produces far more packaging than is currently being recycled. Due to complex layering, recyclers are limited in their capacity to recycle while consumers fail to support recycling due to lack of infrastructure. Encore offers both the technology, tools and software to connect all these players and bring them on to a common stage by giving packaging waste a new face technology that converts it back to pack, bottle or can. We offer the technology as well as tools such as intelligent waste collection bins and software for brands and recyclers to re-calibrate their current manufacturing process to convert waste back into standardized raw materials... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Sri Lanka