Young & Green

Young & Green wrote: The idea is to connect transport companies and private citizens to each other so that they can offer free space to transport goods. The boat that has free space for transport will offer this space thus avoiding it moving at half load. By doing so, more transport can be performed in a single trip. This results in fewer boats and less pollution... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Italy

YOUR GO FOR

YOUR GO FOR wrote: Your go for provides sustainable deposit packaging choice for loyal retail customers. It is b2b service, covering deposit packaging acquisition, collection, cleaning, storage, distribution & recycling at the end of the lifecycle. Also, we use consumers’ data both to optimize our deposit service and to bring value for the retailers we cooperate with. How does it work?. There are so many sections in supermarkets, where you can buy bulk production, and in case you forgot your own packaging, as a loyal customer you could get up to 10 your go for reusable boxes or bags for free. Our reusable box is light, durable and from co2 perspective it becomes a more climate friendly option just after 4 uses while could be used 50 times and more... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Lithuania

Recycling of nutrients from human urine

youtrition wrote: We are developing systems to recycle nutrients from urine in a sterile, safe and odorless way. For that we intend to produce a unit which collects the urine, that is then being filtered and sterilized so that it can be used as a fertilizer for the plants growing on top of the unit... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Switzerland

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

Zefiro

Zefiro wrote: Zefiro is a smartphone application that approaches the digital athlete and young people in the open air sport world. Zefiro tells the sportsman the closest place to him with the best climate where he can do the desired sport!. Zefiro's sports are divided into three categories: -water, for sports in the maritime and river areas;. -air, for flying activities;. -earth, for sport on the ground. In addition to this, zefiro helps companies to reduce co2: employees will be able to find out the best way to walk, run or cycle from home to work. “zefiro” is a light breeze, and spring messenger: this is what the application promises to do, pointing to the user places where the climate is no longer an obstacle but an ally... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Italy

Hyperloop development

Hyperloop is a new means of ground transportation that can carry passengers and cargo at speeds up to 1000 km/h inside low-pressure tubes. Zeleros' hyperloop system minimizes infrastructure complexity to achieve a scalable solution that will enable long-distance travel. By integrating Zeleros’ main levitation and propulsion technologies in the vehicle, the electrification needs of infrastructure are reduced, resulting in lower costs and easier maintenance. The fully-autonomous vehicle enables the use of a tubular infrastructure which has reduced construction and maintenance costs in comparison with other high-speed ground transport systems.

Spain

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Sustainable cleaning of atmosphere

Zero Carbon wrote: Air pollution in form of particulate matter is an increasing environmental and public health. Problem. According to who, 92% of the world’s population lives in places where air quality levels. Exceed limits. In the european union, the average life expectancy is estimated to be decreased. By 8. 6 months, because of exposure to particulate matter. The world health organization. Estimates the number of deaths caused by air pollution is up to 7 million per year, mostly. Related to asthma, lung cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. We built a mechanical tree, that harvests renewable energy from the wind and the sun. The... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Slovenia

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

FoodAbdruck

Zero2 wrote: Foodabdruck provides a solution to people who want to reduce their carbon emissions generated by their shopping behaviour. It will evalute based on your food choices, how much co2-emission was needed to produce that product. It will than suggest environmental friedlier alternatives and therefore decrease your carbon foodprint. Even so this might be small values in the beginning, summed up over the years it will have a big impact.  . In addition, we used web scraping to extract text data from recipes to identify the needed incredients. We calculated the amount of each item and computed the corresponding c02 equivalent... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Bamboo winding pipelines to replace piping

Zhejiang Xinzhou Bamboo-based composites technology co., Ltd have developed a technology for bamboo winding pipelines that uses resin as adhesive instead of harmful chemicals. The company claims that bamboo pipes produced with their technology meets the security evaluation criteria of distribution equipment for drinking water. Thus, the solution has the potential to replace some welded steel pipes, PE pipes, and other traditional pipes in the market. Bamboo wood is a fast-growing source of timber which can be produced sustainably.

China