Waste Transformers – Hong Kong The Waste Transformers offers an innovative local solution for organic waste streams like food waste or sewage sludge. They offer modular solutions to transform waste into energy (gas, heat, electricity combination). Thereby facilitating the circular economy in locations that are otherwise difficult to service. We explored the business opportunities in…
IJ Market The market served as a platform for local business and the exchange of good quality products at a fair price. It also created a sense of community, community culture, and gezelligheid for the local IJburg inhabitants. Context The area of IJburg is a relatively new neighbourhood with inhabitants from many different areas. This…
BrouwBrood Who they are: BrouwBrood began with 4 students from the University of Amsterdam taking the course “Wetenschap in de Praktijk”. There the students were given a consultancy case for Brouwerij ’t IJ, a specialty beer maker, to see what could be done with ‘brewers spent grain’. The students found that 80% of the waste…
Roze Bunker Who they are: Roze Bunker is asking the question: ‘how could we change the concept of soda’? Now they are making a syrup, in the future it could be only transporting taste. Roze Bunker makes syrups from ‘logical fruit’ that can be combined with other liquids to make a tasty fresh drink. It…
