Smart anti-air polluting system

SAPS- Smart Anti Air Pollution system wrote: Saps is a special air cleaning/filtering system inside that we plan to install inside streetlights. Saps can clean air from co2, nitrous oxides (no, no2 etc), fine and coarse dust particles, and other harmful/toxic gases. The word smart stands for two things: that our product will feature a various sensors that will not only detect air pollution level regularly and send live data about the city's or district's air pollution level to people and to our purposes, but also will turn on and off the street light lamp according to ambient light(day/night), and that the machine will adjust its cleaning speed according to the pollution level of the area that it is located... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

Sari-cycling

Sari-cycling wrote: Our solution to the poor waste management system in our city is to create a social enterprise (called sari-cycling, a wordplay on the tagalog word “sari,” meaning variety, and the english word “recycling”) that will collaborate with sari-sari stores (which are small, community-based convenient stores that are found in every street in the philippines) by deploying recycling bins and environmental awareness posters to unused spaces in front of each store. Sari-sari store owners, who are regulated by local government units, will be incentivized on a monthly basis for providing space for our recycling bins and campaign posters. Our company will also partner with fmcg companies, junk shops, and local government units... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Philippines

Save your Planet

Save your Planet wrote: Environmental problems, are getting bigger and bigger and we need an easy and funny way to educate the public about the problem, . “save your planet” is a cross-platform, eco educational project consisted of: two animation series (one for pre-school and one for kids-adults), apps (smartphone-tablets) and books for kids. . The animation series has been selected and awarded in the biggest festivals all over the world, in europe, asia and the us. . Kids and adults, love animation series and also love (tablet-smartphone) apps... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Greece

Industrial reycling of tyre material

Enviro has developed a process for recycling old tyre material into several useful products. The process, where the tyres are introduced as shredded pieces, includes pyrolysis followed by separation and treatment, resulting in steel that can be sold, industry-grade oil, gas that is re-used for energy in the recycling process, and carbon black, which is sold for reusage in new products. The innovation is unique in its ability to evenly heat the tyre material in the reactor, allowing for high efficiency and enables the extraction of carbon black from the material.

Sweden

Environmentally friendly laundry filter

Up to 90 percent of all chemicals washed into sewage from households consist of cleaning liquid, detergent and fabric softener. Detergents can contain micro plastics that pass through water treatment plants into natural water systems. Scandinavian Water Technology AB (SWATAB) has developed a solution they call DIRO-TM21 that enables laundry washing without detergents, at lower temperatures, giving shorter drying times. DIRO-TM21 is a filter system that can be readily installed in any public or private facility. Since DIRO filters out particles in water that can adhere to fabric, the laundry comes out not only clean but also soft to the touch.

Sweden

SDG 13 Climate Action

SDG 13 Climate Action wrote: The campaign is divided in three population sectors: young people: audiovisual campaigns in social media through influencers and cartoons for kids. Example: paw patrol buying goods in local shops. Adults: audovisual campaigns through social media using influencers and documentals. Example: "the travelling tomato", a tomato that travels around the world showing how far a product can travel and its carbon foot print through the journey. Elderly people: campaigns in classic media like radio, newspapers or tv, using famous characters like "tom jones" as owner of a local shop, and how sad it would be if tom jones´s shop closes, to create empathy with the owners of local shops... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Spain

ORTO - Ocean Reef-Tower Oases

Sea Harmony Ltd wrote: We have developed a revolutionary aquaculture technology for the first time, combining all of the positive ecological benefits of the most effective man made reef structures. Our mussel reefs turn the ocean’s biggest problem – organic pollution into a sustainable business using unlimited resource for food production. Yet, the most important thing is that they recover the health of damaged coastal areas (more than 8 000 0000 km2 of certified “dead zones” !), by restoring their food chain – mussels, shrimp and fish (highly demanded market products)... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Bulgaria

Seaweet

Seaweet wrote: Forests are becoming scarce, soils are getting drier and temperature is getting hotter than ever. And at a moment of a climate crisis we still need to feed 10 billion people in 2050. Either we adapt just like every specie did throughout the process of natural evolution or we inevitably face extinction. Seaweet wants to take part on this change by providing the most sustainable life source – microalgae. It doesn’t require arable land to grow, needs 6 times less water than maize and has more protein and iron than meat. At seaweet, we design microalgae based irresistible superfoods to every person that wants to eat in a sustainable and healthy way. Join the algae community and let’s repair the place that we call home... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

Consolidating a community's resilience

SecchiaTeam wrote: The more cohesive and informed a community is, the more it is able to give a response to critical moments. Our idea develops in three steps: organizing informational meetings about the local morphology and climate, giving information on how to take care of the planet and some tips for a quick and effective response to an emergency situation. In these occasions local people will meet and start to get involved in this topic. Promoting arginami, an android and ios app very lightweight and user friendly. By signing in people agree to be put into contact with other users living nearby in case of necessity. The home screen shows comprehensible data such as temperature, rivers' level compared to the average one, the air's quality, etc... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Italy

Second Sun Systems

Second Sun Systems wrote: Stubble burning is big environmental problem for north india in particular and south east asia as a whole. Nasa has captured the image of this menace from space. We believe that farmers are burning crop residue for being easy and economical. Our aim is to provide farmers much easier and economical solution as compared to burning and of multipurpose use for farmers. Our technology decomposes stubble in-situ completely by spraying consortium of stubble decomposing microbes and methane loving methanotrophs which consumes the methane & carbon dioxide produced during the process of decomposing to give carbon enriched biomass to be used as fertilizer for next crop. It lowers atmospheric co2,... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India