The final for the Gelderland Circular Innovation top 9 will take place on February 20. And the nominated innovations have been announced! From this top 20, the jury has announced their top 5. These candidates pitch to a jury during the final, after which one of them is awarded the title and the jury prize. In addition, you can vote on which of its 20 innovations will win the Audience Award!
The Jury top 5 is:
D2D Water Solution BV with Drop2Drink Unit
The Drop2Drink unit was born from the urge to contribute to solving SDG6: Clean Water & Sanitation. Due to climate change, it is becoming increasingly important to apply flexible and local solutions to supplement the existing infrastructure. By using rainwater as a source of drinking water and ensuring the Dutch drinking water standard, water management is safe and transformation is as minor an intervention as possible. Drinking water can be provided completely off-grid and is therefore self-reliant. The applications are endless and lay a new foundation for the future of water management.
Plantics BV with Natural Traffic Sign
The Natural Traffic Sign is made from hemp and bioresin. The hemp is grown and extracted in the Netherlands. Biomass, in which CO2 is trapped and which is also grown locally. The Bioresin is also made from natural raw materials. At the end of a traffic sign's life cycle, the raw materials (resin and hemp) can easily be separated and reused. There are approximately 3 million traffic signs in the Netherlands alone. By replacing aluminum traffic signs with Natural Traffic Signs, this market can become completely circular.
geWOONhout BVwith HOUTbaar Huis Didam
WOODbaar homes are built sustainably, circularly and with low CO2 emissions, because they are made of wood - a biobased, natural and renewable raw material. Wood stores CO2; This is in contrast to steel, concrete and sand-lime brick. In addition, the homes at module and element level are completely reassembleable and movable. All elements are provided with a QR code so that the specifications can be traced, both during installation and during or after the period of use. This makes the elements of WOOD-friendly homes very suitable for reuse. With this product, geWOONhout BV helps the world become circular because the homes can be dismantled, detached and reusable (reassembled).
Straw Blocks Systems BV with Healthy food and (healthy) affordable housing from one plant-based raw material.
Our joint emissions (human and animal) are a global problem and require drastic measures/solutions for our future. Let's get started, all the ingredients are available. Regional healthy food and healthy affordable housing in one, offers new paths with unprecedented future prospects for agriculture and construction, two 'troubled' sectors that are both struggling with their footprint and emissions. Both less burdensome agriculture and construction will be the major challenge for the future. Climate, environment and energy clearly demand it! A link between agriculture and construction, with in its slipstream: recreation, tourism, nature, landscape, biodiversity and crop rotation.
Lagemaat Circulair with Circulair remountable construction system
By reusing demolition waste as a whole as building material for the development of new buildings, Lagemaat Circulair prevents tens of thousands of tons of demolition waste. This in turn saves tens of thousands of tons of raw materials, which do not have to be extracted from the earth. Normally, in addition to the extraction of raw materials, this would result in major environmental damage and CO2 emissions, which is now being prevented. Where processing still takes place on the mined basic material, they do so where possible in an environmentally friendly manner and with (large-scale) deployment of people who are distanced from the labor market. Where we lack materials during implementation, we use bio-based materials. The end result is remountable, energy efficient, greener and adaptive.
The final of the Gelderland Circular Innovation Top 20 takes place on the Noviotech Campus. Before the final you will discover how circular business is done there. Afterwards there will be an opportunity to get to know the finalists and the circular network from Gelderland. Here you will find the names of the 20 innovations and you can register to attend the final or watch the livestream. Both the audience present at the final and viewers on the livestream can vote for the audience award.
Source: https://www.duurzaam-ondernemen.nl/genomineerden-gelderse-circulaire-innovatie-top-20-bekend/
