RENS Sneaker

RENS Sneaker wrote: The world creates over 2. 5 million tons of coffee waste per year and only 5% of those are recycled while the rest is dumped into landfills. At the same time, by the year 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than there will be fish. Rens is the world’s first sneaker made from both coffee and plastic waste... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Finland

Zero emission taxi-sharing

rentE wrote: Private hire taxis are one of the main contributors to city centre air pollution. Operating costs for these taxis are also extremely high, especially for the 55% of uk uber drivers who work less than 30 hours a week. . Rente solves both of these problems, by offering europe's first fully inclusive, fully electric rental service for taxi drivers. The cars are charged using 100% renewable electricity from our own rapid chargers. This coupled with car sharing allows rente to offer rentals under half the price of the competition. . Drivers simply choose their weekly package, book their hours and use our app to unlock the vehicles. With partnerships already established with uber and byd, rente launched in birmingham in september... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

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

Report & Ride App for bicyclists

Report and Ride wrote: Report and ride solution consists of two parts. The app for bicyclists allows to make a photo of an infrastructure problem, add the description and upload the information to the cloud. All the reported problems are shown on the map for other bicyclists, who can add more photos or comments to the description of the problem. To motivate bicyclists to use the app and report issues, the app has functionality of an activity tracker, providing various statistics data for the rides and has ranking board for the most active reporters. After the infromation from riders is collected, it is combined with other open source data, like statstics of road accidents with bicycles allowing to rank the bicycle infrastructure problems by importance... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Reshape Technology

Reshape Technology wrote: Our technology allows anyone. Carrying a mobile phone to measure and reduce their impact on climate change. It monitors daily activities, automatically calculates carbon footprint and displays it in an intuitive way. . Like a fitness tracker, it works on the principle that if you can measure your performance, you can improve it. . But it doesn't stop there. We gamify carbon reduction to create behavioural change. We analyse performance, awards points for good carbon behaviour, then create teams so people can compete at an individual, family, city or country level. . We build social momentum, making people part of the solution to climate change, not the problem... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

Cooking with household waste

Residential Biogas wrote: We provide apartment residents with biogas for cooking that is produced from local organic waste. An anaerobic digester that will be part of the buildings initial design will provide biogas produced of local organic matter directly to apartments in residential buildings. By using unique designated home "trash can", the system will make waste disposal easier. It will transport home organic waste directly to a smart digestion unit and will provide clean energy in the form of biogas to apartment units for cooking. The system will provide a solution for the organic fraction of the solid waste from residential buildings on the one hand and will reduce the consumption of the current cooking energy on the other hand... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Israel

Solar R-nrg Ring project

Ricerca & Rinnovabili srl wrote: Ricerca & rinnovabili started the development of solar r-nrg ring, an innovative, patented pv panel. The sola r-nrg ring will be compact, powerful and it will be the first pv panel in the world that will produce an amount of energy also during the night. Our solution will fit in every sector in which there is no available space to produce energy... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Italy

We produce fuel and grill briquette

RioRE Briquette wrote: Our aim is to produce fuel and grill briquette from raspberry biological waste, and correspondingly engage local population in collecting such waste. Briquettes. Are cheap, and they burn longer than wood. Wood is the main heating source in the western serbia, which leads to deforestation in this region. Forest area has decreased by 20% in the last 10 years. Production of briquette does not include timber – which is an obvious advantage. Economically speaking, usage of biomass for production of briquette that can be used for thermo-energetic purposes is the most cost-effective source of renewable energy... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Serbia

Your personal digital energy advisor

ROIal power wrote: We offer an app that let´s you easily gather information about your energy consumption habits. To motivate users sharing their information we create an incentive system and connect as much data providers as possible. Detailed energy consumption analysis and comparing with average and lookalikes. Offering a step by step guide to lower your energy consumption. We start with advicing our users to take small steps that lowers their energy consumption and the more deeper it gets and the more investment is neccessary we offer hardware as a service models (haas)... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Bridging the gap for home solar installations

RoofSolar wrote: How many of you have photovoltaic (pv) panels in your houses? most of you would have you ever faced direct marketing strong-arm sales techniques that conveniently covers up the installation company flaws for the benefit of the installation company rather than supporting the homeowners? are the homeowners properly informed regarding the installation pros and cons? the answer is a big no. . Roofsolar provide a solution by mending the gap between the installers. And homeowners. By empowering the homeowners to make informed decisions about the benefits, risks, financial support, insurance, and safety issues allowing the "roofsolar" online platform from the comfort of their house for free of cost... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal