Écombuca

Écombuca wrote: We separated the process into four steps, in the first one, écombuca produces reusable packaging and sells monthly plans to distribute ir to restaurants. Then the restaurant through delivery sells its food and the consumer gains benefits in a subsequent purchase by returning this packaging. Then the motoboy returns the packaging to an accredited restaurant and to close the cycle, écombuca collects, sterilizes and transports it back to the restaurant... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Brazil

We install server modules to houses

Tark Energia wrote: The global need for. Variable cloud services grows every day. As a result all data centers in the world combined now consume more electricity than japan. About 90% of that energy goes to waste in form of heat into the atmosphere. Instead of building. New infrastructure for server hosting, we offer a solution. That makes more sense economically and environmentally. Tark energia installs servers modules into existing apartment building heating systems, where the computers are cooled cheaply and the heat is utilized... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

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

STEPS - an urban mobility application

STEPS - value your steps wrote: Steps - value your steps. The creation of this application happened for the reason of solving problems in urban mobility. It basically consists of the idea of ​​an incentive for citizens to use public transport, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and generate their own economy, as well as the local economy. To do this, we created an application that can transform walking, cycling, bus riding and scooter into a local economy, where the beneficiaries would be the users of the application themselves and also the sponsors of it... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Brazil

Solar module recycling

R-Solar wrote: For solar panel manufacturers who are looking for a way to deal with their disposed and defected solar modules we have developed a process and technology that allows different module components to be recovered, recycled and reused as-raw materials in manufacturing... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Lithuania

To make commuting more sustainable

GreenShift wrote: We connect drivers with empty seats in their car with people from the same community to commute together. With our solution we are able to decrease pollution, traffic jams in rush hours and noise. . Greenshift is an app for community ride sharing. The app does matchmaking, scheduling and billing for the commuters. Commuters have more high quality time, spend less on transportation and meet their neighbors for ride sharing... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

Outdoor air cleaning tower based on algae

Green Hive wrote: Algae-based outdoor air purification tower. Absorbs harmful gases and particulates, while producing oxygen and biomass. Sola panels provide the power needed for the tower. The tower is 5 meters high and 2 meters wide. It is suitable for purifying air in busy urban and densely populated areas. The green hive is capable of absorbing carbon dioxide equivalent to 200 trees... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Hungary

Architectural construction

SUM Green Tunnel wrote: A problem of heat island effect and missing greenery in cities is more and more increasing and serious. . The concept of sum green tunnel is dedicated for urban spaces, especially along communication lines where conditions for trees or shrubs development are unfavorable or impossible. . It is designed as a modular and multifunctional construction covered with evergreen climbing plants. The sum green tunnel is made from 5 m long segments which are able to merge and make together a tunnel from both sides. . Thanks to climbing plants the whole construction cleans polluted air by reducing co2, improve local humidity and muffle the noise from transport... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Poland

MiningSandboxAR

MiningSandboxAR wrote: Augmented reality sandbox (ar sandbox) is based on a container filled with sand, using the sand, gives the opportunity to use surface what can be shaped as required. The topography of the sand surface is continuously scanned by a 3d sensor and a camera (kinect technology, what is used for example in xbox). In computer, the scanned surface is now blended with a digital geological 3d model in real-time and an image is calculated, which is projected onto the sand surface by means of a beamer. The result is an interactive model, which user can interact and which visualizes and comprehend complex three-dimensional facts in an accessible way... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

Air-to-air heat exchanger for cooling

Air conditioning systems consume considerable power and have a large carbon footprint. TORO Water Air Thermal Technologies Corp have developed an air-to-air heat exchanger for cooling which they claim saves 50–80% energy compared to Conventional AC systems. It offers energy-efficient, climate friendly air conditioning alternatives and uses water as a refrigerant with Separate Sensible and Latent Cooling to maintain a comfortable range of temperature and humidity in multiple climate zones. Air Conditioners with this technology eliminate Ozone Depleting / High GWP refrigerants and reduce carbon emissions. This technology can be adapted for Residential, Commercial and Industrial cooling applications.

Canada