P3T Studio

P3T Studio wrote: More than 60 million water plastic bottles are thrown away each day. Most of them ends up on landfills and incinerators, what leads to pollution of air and water and also huge losses of resources. But what if there was an alternative? could you imagine a device that will convert those bottles into something you actually like?. Our company made this dream a reality with a simple device, that processes plastic bottles into cheap 3d printer filament. With three single steps – collect, process, print! – anyone can transform their garbage into anything they can dream of. This device not only reduces amount of waste, but also gives an attractive alternative for expensive printing materials... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Poland

Switching mode power supply (SMPS) Programme

The innovation utilizes high efficiency switching power in electricity meters. The market is aimed at replacing those that use inefficient linear power technology. The energy consumption of electricity meters decrease from 1.5W to 0.4W because of the new technology. The lower power rating of the electricity meters will mean less energy consumption and therefore, a greater energy savings from the lifetime perspective of the meter.

China

SafePeaks: a mobile app for mountain safety

SafePeaks wrote: Safepeaks mobile application will solve three of the crucial problems that today the tourism in general, but the mountains one in particular, has to face : the lack of people’s consciousness about new emerging dangers, their inability to report emergency situations and safety issues caused by the difficult coordination among different civil protection bodies. To solve the first problem, safepeaks will give the users the possibility to get a quick overview of the climatic conditions, including the information about the different routes available in a selected area... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Italy

BOXIT is a compostable takeaway foodbox

BOXIT wrote: We provide our biodegradable foodboxes to restaurants and fast food chains as an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic packages. Boxit foodbox is a thermo package made out of recycled paper and natural adhesive, which makes it waterproof for 24 hours. Producing and using boxit doesn’t leave any waste to the environment... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

LPG cylinder from composite material

Safari Techs PLT wrote: Current metal lpg cylinder in malaysia is 70 years old technology. It is heavy, high maintenance and has safety issue in the case of fire. The composite lpg cylinders made using fiber glass and has a lot of advantages such as 60 % lighter, maintenance free,and translucent. This lpg composite cylinder is the local technology which can prevent the gas leakage and improve the connection between cylinder and the nozzle for safety feature. Because of its light weight feature, the logistic cost will be reduced. In addition, less fuel will be needed to transport it thus reduces the carbon released to the environment. No maintenance needed means no chemical will be needed to refurbished the cylinders... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Malaysia

Stationless bike sharing system

Mobike Technology claims to have created the world's first intelligent shared bicycle model. The patented smart model integrates GPS and communication modules to use a new generation of internet of things (IoT) technology. Through the smartphone app, users can locate and use the nearest bicycle anytime, anywhere. The bikes are fully dockless in this instance. The sharing model encourages more transport options through means of bicycling instead of fossil-fueled transit.

China

Trash4cash

Tectrash wrote: Trash4cash. Our solution was developed during the 2019 climathon that took place in curitiba. The solution is providing trash4cash. The context would be to allow brazilian society the importance of separating garbage. Swap plastic waste for credit with urbs card. . . . . . . . Our solution is based on a model used in our city, which would be a recyclable waste exchange for basic basket, and courses, but our idea focuses only on plastic where our city has a considerable waste. The idea is to have a smart dumpster where the plastic weighs and where credit is generated for the public transport card. Reduction of plastic pollution in our cityplan to use this idea somedayour team name is tectrash.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Brazil

@2

@2 wrote: The number of road vehicles is growing unstoppable every year, as result, the big cities suffer from the increasing emission of carbon dioxide. We are planning to add a modern module on public surface transport of the cities. The main technology of the module can convert carbon dioxide to other compounds as well as generate electrical energy which could be used in a more valuable way. Our beach-market is vilnius, the biggest city of lithuania. There traffic jumps are a big issue, thus, while the public transport usually stops in them, they can clean the air in the urban locations where the need is the strongest one... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Lithuania

Dockit - "Love Food...Hate Waste"

Dockit wrote: Dockit aims to develop innovative software solutions to everyday restaurant problems, in particular, food waste. . - roughly 50% of food waste can be attributed to labour i. E. Human error. - 1 tonne of food waste equates to 2 tonnes of co2 equivalents. - food waste accounts for between 3-5% of total running costs in restaurants. . Dockit aims to significantly reduce the climate impact of food waste by tackling the issue of incorrect ordering in restaurants because "small changes can make a big difference"... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Ireland

Modal integration solution

MUNE wrote: Mune is a solution that aims to develop a modal integration system to make users' life easier. You just put you location and destiny, and it will give you the best choices: the cheaper route, the faster and the most environmentally sustainable (less co2 eq emissions)... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Brazil