Meet the top 20 startups: Circular Unity, CircularPort, Coffeeco, Coffeefrom and Ecopolplast
Meet top 5 candidates out of the top 20 competing for your votes in the public phase! These startups are at the forefront of reshaping the sustainability landscape, presenting innovative solutions to global challenges. Whether it's transforming waste into valuable resources or pioneering eco-friendly materials, each of these startups represents a significant step toward creating a sustainable planet. Read more about their products and missions, and help them in leading the charge toward a greener, more resilient future!
Circular Unity
This Portuguese startup has developed a comprehensive solution for managing, collecting, and communicating sustainability data: impactALL. It is a powerful sustainability management solution that harnesses IoT sensors, API integrations, and OCR technology to automate manual data collection and streamline the sustainability reporting process. The startup's software is designed to collect and analyze sustainability data, measure your carbon footprint, and facilitate actionable steps to reduce your environmental impact.
To know more about Circular Unity: Circular Unity – The Sustainability Management System for Events
CircularPort
CircularPort, based in Spain, provides a passport to trace waste beyond port facilities by connecting shipowners, MARPOL concessionaires, recycling companies, and industrial manufacturers. Their peer-to-peer validations, alongside blockchain technology, prevent data tampering and enhance collaboration among companies. Their aim? To transform waste batches discharged by ships into digital assets (tokenization). Specifically, they use Composable tokens to record qualitative characteristics and quantitative indicators such as the type of waste, weight, origin and destination, process transformation, and the rights and obligations attached to each waste batch.
To know about CircularPort: Circular Port – Green & Efficient Ports
Coffeeco
This Greek startup is giving a second life to coffee waste by developing a unique process to upcycle espresso, beer, and wine waste, turning it into ingredients for skincare products. These ingredients serve as natural antioxidants, harnessing the caffeine found in them to create eco-friendly skincare products. Moreover, the startup produces unique bioplastic with higher degradation capacity, providing a sustainable alternative to traditional plastics.
To know more about Coffeeco: Home - Coffe-eco
Coffeefrom
With a focus on the circular economy, Coffeefrom, an Italian startup, transforms used coffee grounds from the food industry—recovered as a by-product—into various possibilities. Specifically, starting with coffee waste, they develop new thermoplastic, recycled, and bio-based materials, shaping them through innovative application scenarios and product designs. Primarily suitable for injection molding, their granules find application in different contexts, including automotive, tableware, promotional, and service products. Within this model, they create social impact through the inclusion of vulnerable individuals.
To know more about Coffeefrom: Materials | Bio based | Thermoplastics - Coffeefrom®
Ecopolplast
This Polish startup has developed innovative technology and manufactures Ecoplastomers, which are advanced thermoplastic elastomers made entirely from post-consumer recycled plastic and recycled tire rubber crumb. This ensures complete independence from fossil fuels and significantly reduces environmental, and CO2 impact. The ability to bond TPE components mechanically, without chemical additives or stabilisers, makes Ecoplastomers easily recyclable and circular. TPEs are widely used in the automotive industry and consumer goods manufacturing. With Ecoplastomer®, any item made from it can be flaked and reintroduced into the production cycle. This way, the recycled content they use does not go to the landfill and stays in the closed loop.
To know more about Ecopolplast: https://ecoplastomer.eu/