Waste to Wealth Innovative Technologies LLP

Waste to Wealth Innovative Technologies LLP wrote: We develop microbial processes to treat dairy waste water to generate value added product like biofertilizer that can replace use of chemical fertilizer and fresh water for irrigation. The crop production increases, ensuring healthy food, the fresh water misuse (90%) for agriculture is stopped while the dairy industry saves on land use for effluent treatment plant construction (reduced by 75%), saves on electricity for processing (by 90%), reduces time of treatment (7. 5times) and hence efficiency of the plant. In addition they become a zero discharge company which produces biofertilizer... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

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

The web platform to bring knowledge

WasteClass wrote: In europe, industrial wastes are the vast majority of waste, they follow complex chemical regulations, are expensive to dispose and most of all landfill is still a big threat for the environment. We believe in a waste market with simpler regulations, fair competition and with small companies bringing great innovation. Wasteclass is a web platform that simplifies chemical regulation making simpler and faster for a waste producer to choose the best disposal solution... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Italy

WasteDecreaser

WasteDecreaser wrote: We want to improve people's life quality , and give simple way to reuse and utilize plastic bottles. Our solution is in neighbourhoods where there are no recycle containers , provide people with some type of machine that will cut bottles into long and thin stripes . Then people can easily carry this waste or you use is as a helpful tool in the garden . For an example gardeners can simply organize their workspace by keeping plant bonded by stripes. Everyone can use this strips for different purposes and no matter how old or who are you. Our team members observe this problem every day, cause we can feel this pain, living in different parts of town where people dont have any possibilities to sort waste... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Belarus

Get money from waste

WasteMerchant wrote: Wastemerchant is a digital platform that incentivizes sorting of household/institutional waste by creating a trading platform of such sorted waste. By streamlining such operations in the growing complexities of urban spaces and combined with technological solutions, our platform reduces the costs for governments/municipalities for waste treatment. Our solution promotes sorting which leads to more recycling and reuse and less to landfill and incineration. And fosters a positive environmental impact... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Finland

Wastopedia

Wastopedia wrote: We aim to create a rentable win-win business, where people, companies and the planet can profit from efficient waste sorting and recycling. No more having to decipher confusing packaging labels on how to dispose of your yogurt cups. We will tell you what to do and where to put them with only a click... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

Water Chakra

Water Chakra wrote: Water and fertilizers are crucial components to the socio-economic development of the nation and sanitation is the basic need. In the manufacturing process of fertilizers, phosphorous and potassium are non-renewable critical resources that are 80 to 100% imported by india. One resource that interlinks the water-nutrients nexus with the sanitation is human urine. Urine contains about 98% water and remaining are nutrients (n, p, k). About 22% of the global phosphorus demand can be achieved through the recovery of phosphorus from human waste. It’s time to ‘reinvent the toilet’... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Device that produce water from the air

Water Cloud wrote: We have done research on the global water crisis. Our solution is device that produces water from air and that not only for general applications but it can also be used for farming. The device can produce 30 litres of water per hour if the air humidity is at 60%. Our team consist of 4 members. We offer our customers a multifunctional device for a good price, that improves the social mission... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Ukraine

The League of Energy

WeCare wrote: Wecare runs annual competitons to create engagement with the co-creation of positive energy neighborhoods. There will be monthly themes and competitions, with small rewards (for example free concert within neighborhood from local band). These events will be an opportunity for learning, sharing skills and engaging the community which eventually will lead to co-creation. We focus on the creation and communication of stories which show how neighborhoods take the steps to reduce their energy consumption and begin the creation of localised energy sources. We utilise all possible communication platforms to spread the message. To reach the final goal of of creating postivie energy neighborhoods... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Norway

WE3 Connect

WEEEWO wrote: We3 connect is a unique digital platform that incentivizes users to dispose of their small electronic devices in an innovative way: while disposing of broken devices to electronic retailers, they earn points that allow them to access targeted offers and discounts. In this way, not only they save money but also they can actively contribute to climate change mitigation through provision of secondary raw materials. Furthermore, thanks to the footprint calculator, we3 connect will help to increase users awareness about the impact they make while recycling e-waste. At the same time, we identify the main electronic retailer chains as the key partners of we3 connect as they provide us with the infrastructures to collect small-sized e-waste... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Italy