Pulp-based studs as building material

Wood Tube Sweden produces pulp-based studs for inside walls and furniture. The studs are similar to traditional wooden planks, but utilize a hollow design. It has a lower weight and price compared to alternatives and, due to the hollowness, its greather surface can be treated for improvement. The attributes can lower costs of construction while reducing environmental impact from heavy materials and newly-sourced timber.

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Urban farming as a service platform

Woolly farms private limited wrote: Woolly is urban farming as a service company, focused in building cluster of digital rooftop farms connected with local stores/consumers and trained growers in a community - with an objective of scaling by building micro-entrepreneurs in urban farming with the help of c2c urban farming sharing platform with farm to fork tracking.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Worm-box that transforms domestic waste

Worm Revolution wrote: We live in a world of resources extraction and waste: 99% of our food is not organic, so it requires chemical inputs that come from mining. Moreover, 99 percent of the stuff we buy is trashed within 6 months. Luckily worms are our allies to solve this issue!. With our worm compost bin, we help citizens to transform easily organic waste into natural fertilizers. By reducing their waste footprint, our customers produce a high value resource to grow their own healthy food, to share or to sell. . Our product is easy to use, hygienic and fun. It is made of non-treated wood and is manufactured digitally (with an automatic wood cutter), allowing to produce it locally and at a custom size... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

Mobile car wash

Through the Woshapp app, Woshapp takes the car wash to the car and reduces the amount of water needed for each wash. The company goal is to revolutionize the way we clean cars using sustainable and environmentally friendly methods. On average it takes 1.5 hours to wash a car and in addition about 200 liters of water are consumed per wash. Woshapp service agents cycle to the car and carefully hand wash it in an environmentally friendly way, using only about 400 milliliters of water per wash, thereby saving 99% of the water consumed by a regular car wash. The method provides better quality than a mechanical car wash, avoiding the scratches that can occur.

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Switching mode power supply (SMPS) Programme

The innovation utilizes high efficiency switching power in electricity meters. The market is aimed at replacing those that use inefficient linear power technology. The energy consumption of electricity meters decrease from 1.5W to 0.4W because of the new technology. The lower power rating of the electricity meters will mean less energy consumption and therefore, a greater energy savings from the lifetime perspective of the meter.

China

X-Femme

X-Femme wrote: Recent years have seen a movement to ditch the disposable and let reusables reign. While reusable menstrual products generate less waste, do they really have less environmental impact? menstrual cups usually made of silicone remain intact for decades. Period underwears and cloth sanitary napkins use non-biodegradable leakproof material. Disposable sanitary pads and tampons marketed as "organic" may contain plastics that are not necessarily bio-based and/or biodegradable. Girls and women are yet to achieve zero-waste-period zen. X-femme strives for true zero waste periods through sustainable convenience... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Food waste management by Black Soldier Fly

Food waste and nutrition recovery innovation through the use of biologically-produced enzymes. The concept is similar to 'farming' using an insect larvae of the black soldier fly. The larvae breaks down waste, creating a usable protein fixed in the insect. The larvae can be processed for a variety of feed uses as a sustainable additive. Instead of farming the solution on a large scale, the company aims to provide the service at the household level.

China

Xigrid Technologies

Xigrid Technologies wrote: We are building an ai-powered technology that optimizes energy efficiency, air quality and indoor comfort in commercial buildings. We help to reduce electricity costs by 30%, and significantly lower co2 emissions from buildings and power generation/distribution sector... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Norway

Xylene

Xylene wrote: Importing timber into the eu, us and australian market involves the responsibility for ensuring the legal harvest – where certifications fail, launderers win!. Xylene revolutionises the way wood is offered on the market. A user-friendly tracking and tracing system uses a mobile application to ensure every step of the wood supply chain is documented from the forest to the final product. . With the help of blockchain technology, we offer the utmost confidence in the authenticity of the data, as the ledger is fully transparent, unchangeable and not centrally owned by any organisation. . The information can be monitored and managed by the customer through a connected web-based timber management system... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Germany

Yased

Yased wrote: Given the upward trend in plastic production and use and the fact that over 80% of this plastic is not recycled. Up to now, clearance of plastics is mainly done by incineration and accumulation in landfills. There is an evident and urgent need to find an efficient way to recycle it quickly, ecologically and cheaply. Our product, yased, fulfils these necessities as it provides a way high-capacity dissolving element which generates an end-product that can be purified and used as raw material for new products. Yased is aimed at companies dedicated to the management of plastic waste... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Spain