Zero plastic waste in Zpw application

RE-FUTURE wrote: 1. The zpw application connects the government,customers,plastic production and recycling companies（plastic trash machine） and markets into a closed plastic recycling system that can achieve zero plastic waste in city. 2. The government helps plastic production and recycling companies establish closed plastic recycling systems and make policies. Government and plastic production and recycling companies put plastic trash machine in various areas of the city. The main function of this plastic trash machine is scoring for the users who collect the plastic waste (maybe 10g per point). Users can log on his application to get the points when the input the plastic waste into plastic trash machine. 3... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

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

RePhil

RePhil wrote: By introducing a circular system for reusable takeaway bowls rephil reduces waste stemming from to-go packaging. Rephil provides restaurants with reusable takeaway bowls, and therefore offers take-away costumers an attractive alternative, to produce less waste in their everyday lives, while increasing their take away dining experience. After having finished their meals costumers return the empty reusable boxes in our strategically positioned drop-off stations. Rephil collects the dirty boxes, washes them and reallocates them back to the restaurants. . The first markets for rephil are closed ecosystems in austria, primarily focusing on corporate canteens, university campuses, and hospitals... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Smart Competer

Dundees wrote: Smart meters are the future and can play a central role in controlling the ever-increasing power consumption. However, they also present us with some problems. For many, electricity consumption is an abstract concept. With our "smart compete" solution, we offer a visualized and gamified solution in which users are offered both an incentive and an alternative value with the help of competition and complementary currency... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Urban Organic agriculture network

Agriculture 2.0 wrote: Agriculture 2. 0 is a product that from the technique of aquaponics (fish and plant organic ecosystem) bring on the market a water saving agriculture technology, with a great carbon footprint and a higher quality of horticulture production. No co2 emission from plowing the ground, 80%-90% less water saving, no chemicals a fertilizers or pesticides are required. We can make agriculture become a zero impact process, with an autonomous system that produces the energy needed to give daily life to the ecosystem. To change the market rules and habits, we decided to enter the market a biodiversity catalogue that becomes an ecommerce marketplace where end user has food sovereignty with a farming on demand service. Agriculture2... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Italy

Pulse

Pulse wrote: We focus on the development of a revolutionizing combustion engine we call pulse. . Unlike an ordinary combustion engine, that controls its output by only changing the amount of air-fuel mixture injected inside the combustion chamber, pulse has also the ability to control its compression ratio while it operates. . This way, pulse can operate much more efficiently and offer its maximum torque or frequency instantly, without needing a complicated transmission system like a gearbox. . There are many applications of pulse, like as a car engine, a turbine or a projectile launcher. But we will start from something small in order to penetrate the market. . We'll start selling pulse motorcycles designed for everyday, urban transportation. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Cyprus

App for reduction of single use plastic

Club EcoSmart wrote: We will start with contacting the bigger market chains in the country and markets. The intended start is having one item of one product that is offered in bulk sale. The customer will take a standard container provided (sold) by the store, take the desired amount. Then, the cashier will weigh the product and renerate a qr code which the customer will scan and save on his phone... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

SmarTTrack

SmarTTrack wrote: The smarttrack device is an autonomous system that tracks the sun in an intelligent way. How it works? it uses an algorithm to determine the precise position of the sun and finds the most optimal path that solar panels should follow in order to get the maximum possible power out of the solar panels. Our system will be used in solar farms that have solar panel installed on dual axis tracking systems. By using our product, in a cloudy day, we can increase the outputted power, by 10-12%. Furthermore, our solution outperforms existing methods by reducing moving time, thus decreasing solar farm maintenance necessities and motors power consuptions. Smarttrack, we increase popularity and efficiency of using renewable energy sources... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Moldova, Republic of

a/b fashion

a/b fashion wrote: Hello, we are a/b fashion and we would like to style the world in second hand.  . Our product is a monthly subscription to a styling service, with items specially selected from second hand markets. We spoke to 20 customers, 3 second hand stores, 5 experts, and ran 100 online questionnaires to develop our product, market, & financials. First priorities are: a seamless customer ux, and investing in the right staff. Our product aims for behavioural change using reward systems and gamification for reducing wardrobes, reusing and repairing pieces. At scale, reducing footprint of fashion. By 2022 we want our company to be the name people associate with sustainable fashion... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Netherlands

Efficient plastic recycling in Graz

REDDD wrote: The eu parliament has set a goal of recycling 50% of the produced plastic waste starting from 2025. In austria 28% of the annually produced plastic waste is currently recycled. That is because there are some issues with the waste separation carried out by the consumer and not all of the plastic waste from the recycling bin is actually recycled. That’s why we came up with a new waste collection/sorting system based on the deposit scheme already in use for glass bottles. The relevant collection machine works by scanning the barcode of the plastic packaging, looking up in a database if the product is recyclable, sorting the waste in a designated container and storing the information about which product was collected for further use... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria