Eco-innovation

The transportation of perishable goods results in the production of significant amounts of waste. Estimated food losses are around 33% during storage and transportation, amounting to an annual global bill of over €25 billion.
The ENBED project uses inter-communicating wireless sensors to maintain cold chain optimal conditions. The system, developed and manufactured by CartaSense, permits the real time monitoring of perishable goods from the manufacturing phase all the way to the shelves at the point of sale.
This will lengthen their shelf life, guaranteeing their preservation along the entire supply chain, prevent waste and losses and increase consumers' trust in such products.

http://www.ecoenbed.com

The production of fibres for the textile industry impacts heavily on the environment. Cotton in particular involves both a vast quantity of water and the use of pesticides and fertilisers. Various initiatives have tried to make the process more eco-friendly, but the real breakthrough necessitates extending the lifetime of the fibres through recycling, and so reducing the demand for raw material.
The project developed, constructed and demonstrated an automated industrial sorting line, using the in-line NIR-identification of post-consumer textile waste. Having analysed the economic benefits, T4T upgraded and adapted its installation based on sorting requirements and sorting results in relation to the envisaged products from the recovered fibres.

http://www.textiles4textiles.eu/

The use of plants to remove, contain, or degrade environmental contaminants in water, in soil or air is known as phytoremediation. The Briter-Water project harnessed the way in which bamboo roots function, to purify wastewater. The root system, and its associated microorganisms, exudates numerous chemical compounds into the soil which are able to degrade organic pollutants.
The Bambou-Assainissement® filter has been up and running since September 2010. Covering less than 3 hectares, the system is designed to remediate up to 2 000 m3 of food-industry grey water per day by breaking down nitrogenous compounds and phosphates of effluents by over 99%.

http://www.phytorem.com/Qui-sommes-nous/Phytorem-a-l-international/BRITER-WATER

Even though baking new bricks is very resource and energy intensive, many are either sent to landfill or crushed and recycled. The Rebrick project has developed and demonstrated a technology that separates out used bricks using an automated sorting process for demolition waste.
The project sets up a full-scale brick cleaning facility and intends to replicate the technology in other countries. It is also developing public/private partnerships within the demolition and construction sectors.
Rebrick will lead to an annual reduction of waste amounting to 24 000 tonnes in the second year after the project ends. The first plant in Denmark will contribute to a reduction of 6 000 tonnes of CO by the second year after the project ends.

http://www.gamlemursten.dk/uk