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Submit your idea for the POWER Idea Contest for Sustainable Communities or explore, comment and vote on ideas submitted by others. Become one of 10 ideators who will receive support for the implementation of their idea.

About the contest

The results of the first phase of the POWER Idea Contest for Sustainable Communities have been evaluated. More than 140 ideas were submitted to the contest and received feedback from the POWER communities. The top 20 finalists who made it to the next round of the contest are listed here.

We are looking for ideas for solutions to sustainability challenges that local communities face. If you are a social entrepreneur, innovator, activist, student or simply someone who cares about achieving sustainable future, submit your idea here and win the chance to implement it!

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How to participate

Participate in the contest by submitting an idea or by commenting and voting on the ideas of others and help the community solve sustainability issues.

Submit an idea in the "Ideas" section below.

Your idea should offer а solution to a sustainability challenge that Sabadell faces. Show how this solution can be replicated in another city of your choice.

Share your idea with your personal network and activate them to vote (by liking) and comment on it.

See the concrete requirements for your idea submission here.

Explore, comment and vote already existing ideas in the "Ideas" section below. Your feedback will help the ideators improve their ideas.

By engaging with other contents on the Sabadell POWER website - e.g. reading articles, sharing and commenting entries that you find helpful - you learn more about local sustainability issues. This will help you develop a better idea proposal or be able to evaluate more accurate the proposals of others. See more about the way this mechnism works here.

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Topics

Show how your idea solves a sustainability issue in one (or more) of the following areas. Demonstrate how your solution is relevant for the Sabadell local context and how it could be replicated in another city of your choice:

Climate change

Water sustainability

Sustainable consumption & production

Civic engagement

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Documents

Contest Guidelines and Terms and Conditions [pdf | 442,86Kb]

Ideas

Submit your idea as a post in this section. Give a catchy title and describe your idea in 2-3 sentances. Attach an additional document with more explanations about your idea (~ 300 words). See more about the requirements for your idea submission in the Guidelines of the contest linked above.

Salt free seawater cooling for PV-power plants and agriculture
IrrigationNets
03 December 2019 - 4:21 PM We use salt free evaporation of seawater to generate some million m3 of cold wet air. With this we can cool down Agro-PV solar power plants and generate more additional energy, than needed to run the cooling device. At the same time we support agriculture with cooling and addional moisture. www.irrigationNets.com Video in Espanol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJdh50tWWdQ IrrigationNets Pitch Fundernation Chile.pdf - [1,6Mb]
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Tidal wave energy conversion.
mmzbabu
04 August 2019 - 10:35 PM my paper 310719 ieee.pdf - [382,64Kb]
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Las ETAPS tendrían que estar al principio de los ríos no al final en el caso del Llobregat recibiendo agua de varias depuradoras
Francesc Jonch
27 February 2019 - 2:56 PM
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Sweden VR with "The Global VR/AR SDG Education and Smart City Innovation Library"
Kerstin Mühlow
30 January 2019 - 9:47 AM Here is a short video of the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCHD34qUk18 Please look at our summary deck: https://app.box.com/s/60axem3qajhc3obkftbcggdu4bxfz5rf Organization summary: https://app.box.com/s/chgjlmu6yumtnshywycql5bjsmxznle8 The SDG Library is a web-based library with informative and educational content pertaining to the UN’s seventeen Global Sustainable Development Goals. The library contains virtual reality and augmented reality educational content, as well as two-D content, created with experts/partners in the SDG field. It also has a large section about urban city sustainable innovations and providers of such solutions. The SDG library is a knowledge resource that inspires, educates and provides vital information in order to support the implementation of the SDGs globally. The global SDG Library also has an app that can be customized to deliver specific content related to selected SDGs. It can also be used to search for urban city sustainable innovations. Our target customer groups for the SDG library are goverments, municipalities, schools, universities, and companies working with specific VR/AR projects connected to the SDG. End change management results are driven by the students and the public engagement using the SDG library. Cover_SwedenVR.jpg - [134,15Kb]
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Plastic Recycling 3D printer for the community use
www.3D-Seed.com
14 January 2019 - 10:23 PM Last month in Sabadell, Barcelona was our first time to show the Recycling 3D printer ( and more ) to people at the Crea Idea Lab. Youtube video here.. https://lnkd.in/d7xpSUZ Small beginnings.. we're now looking for Investors to scale up and demonstrate that the Circular Economy works. 3d printing from Bottles in Sabadell - 2018.jpg - [107,57Kb]
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- Congrats
  Tito Alexander Arzuaga Gonzalez
  29 January 2019 - 10:48 AM Very interesting ideas in this project, thanks for sharing the video. I hope you can get funding to scale the project up! keep going. -Tito
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- New dates.. so soon.. more photos :)
  www.3D-Seed.com
  20 January 2019 - 2:14 PM Dates for Sabadell.png - [494,57Kb]
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Innovative Eco-Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastewater
INCOVER
20 December 2018 - 10:15 AM Taking into account the current global water scarcity and the expensive cost of wastewater treatment, INCOVER proposes a concept to move wastewater from a waste stream into a source of new added-value bio-products, contributing to circular economy. The idea is to develop innovative and sustainable technologies to recover energy, nutrients, and bio-products from municipal, agricultural and industrial wastewater. incover-page_A4-WEB_2en1.png - [9,87Mb]
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- Jordi Vinyoles
  31 May 2019 - 1:24 PM Very interesting proposal, who works in the line of circular economy. This must be the future solution for the "present wastes" .
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- INCOVER project: Innovative waterwater treatment tech for people and stakeholders
  Santiago Gómez Cuervo
  31 May 2019 - 9:54 AM Fantastic project to achieve wastewater become a source for producing energy and added-value products!!
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- Innovative waterwater treatment tech for people and stakeholders
  marcosmarinor
  31 May 2019 - 8:20 AM Great developed and demonstration of very useful tecnologies for all stakeholders of water`s value chain and for changing population`s life.
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- Great project!
  mara gonzalez
  30 May 2019 - 3:17 PM
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- wastewater treatment goes resource recovery
  mhartl
  07 May 2019 - 4:39 PM Congratulations, a lighthouse project for a future of resource factories replacing wastewater treatment plants
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Reuse for all
Clàudia
29 November 2018 - 4:30 PM Principales barreras a vencer para tener acceso al agua regenerada: infraestructura, condiciones de uso, ambas ligadas con la legislación y administración. Main barriers to overcome in order to have access to reclaimed water: infrastructure, use conditions, both of them related to legislation and of course administration IMG_20181129_170206196.jpg - [607,48Kb]
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- Infraestructura distribuida
  Darién Miranda
  29 November 2018 - 4:41 PM La infraestructura típica de las ciudades recide en recolectar los residuos de todos los edificios y procesarlos de manera centralizada. Si pudieramos distribuir en cada edifico a que pueda procesar una parte de lo que consume, la carga y el costo en general sería mas ligera!
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Enseñar el aprovechamiento del agua
Xavi Barba Espejo
29 November 2018 - 4:25 PM Mi idea consiste en una reforma educativa dónde se pueda enseñar a los más pequeños a reutilizar el agua no potable por ejemplo regando el huerto con agua de la lluvia. También trataría de enseñar en clase vídeos de influencers que hablen del tema y debatirlos. A la edad de 16 años habría que hacer un trabajo sobre la reutilización y después exponerlo y debatirlo con la clase y con otros colegios. IMG_20181129_171817_960.jpg - [234,7Kb]
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- dribes
  14 December 2018 - 11:39 AM Muy interesante mezclar a influencers, para que el mensaje llegue a los jóvenes. Además también es vital no solo quedarse en la parte teórica sino dar ejemplos prácticos, como por ejemplo reutilizar agua de lluvia para regar el huerto para que los niños vean que es posible aplicarlo en su día a día
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- Buen planteamiento de la idea
  misael
  29 November 2018 - 4:33 PM Considero que la idea propuesta es la correcta ya que fomentará a las nuevas generaciones a tener un punto de vista ecológico
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"W.S." : Water Solution - Program Online
marta_m93
29 November 2018 - 4:24 PM IMG_5454.jpg - [1,87Mb]
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- Darién Miranda
  29 November 2018 - 4:38 PM Pienso que puede funcionar. Es mas probable que las personas escuchen a un comunicador que a los mensajes del gobierno. Lo único que haría falta son las regulaciones para medir la efectividad de la campaña comparada con la cantidad otorgada.
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Enseñar el aprovechamiento del agua
Xavi Barba Espejo
29 November 2018 - 4:24 PM Mi idea consiste en una reforma educativa dónde se pueda enseñar a los más pequeños a reutilizar el agua no potable por ejemplo regando el huerto con agua de la lluvia. También trataría de enseñar en clase vídeos de influencers que hablen del tema y debatirlos. A la edad de 16 años habría que hacer un trabajo sobre la reutilización y después exponerlo y debatirlo con la clase y con otros colegios. IMG_20181129_171817_960.jpg - [234,7Kb]
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- Por los peques se empieza
  Darién Miranda
  29 November 2018 - 4:45 PM A los pequeños debemos de hacerles saber que el problema es muy grande, y que ellos son los que van a lidiar con sus efectos mas grandes. Si cambiamos sus hábitos desde hoy podrán de disfrutar del mundo como nosotros
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Campaña de educación y ahorro (ECO-SEEING)
misael
29 November 2018 - 4:22 PM Fomentar una campaña de educación e informática para que todo el mundo se conciencie un punto de vista medioambiental y promover leyes a favor del mismo. image.jpg - [1,49Mb]
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- dribes
  14 December 2018 - 11:37 AM Importantísimo aprender des de pequeños la importancia de la sostenibilidad y cuidar el medio ambiente! Muy buena idea
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- Las leyes son primero!
  Darién Miranda
  29 November 2018 - 4:31 PM Deberíamos de educar a los alumnos desde pequeños para que vean las consecuencias directas de sus acciones. Experimentos con la basura dentro de la escuela pueden funcionar!
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NPWater - Aplicación de educación ambiental
aleixjf
29 November 2018 - 4:20 PM Crear una aplicación para dar soporte a una nueva asignatura escolar de educación ambiental. Esta asignatura debe constar tanto de una parte práctica, así como de una parte de talleres, en la que los niños queden impactados al estar en un entorno virtual que es el mundo que les espera, en función de los avances que hayan hecho dueante la parte práctica. En la parte práctica, los niños deben tomar pequeñas acciones en una "ciudad virtual", que irá evolucionando en función de estas decisiones. Para incentivarlos en casa, al registrar determinadas acciones realizadas en casa se les bonifica con puntos para corregir malas decisiones//redirigir el rumbo de su entorno virtual. Finalmente, la nota de la asignatura se ve directamente influenciada por el desenlace que ha tenido su mundo virtual, y por las decisiones tomadas en la vida real. image.jpg - [1,34Mb]
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- dribes
  14 December 2018 - 11:36 AM Genial! Es muy interesante la parte educativa en si misma, pero también el formato propuesto, muy pensado en los usuarios (niños y niñas) y sus intereses en lo digital/mundo virtual
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- Simulación de la ciudad
  Darién Miranda
  29 November 2018 - 4:35 PM Esto me parece muy bien, en juegos como SimCity o Cites Skylines uno puede ver el efecto en el medioambiente casi inmediatamente. Mostrarle las relaciones exactas entre sus acciones a los niños es muy importante para que tomen conciencia al crecer
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Suministro sostenible
tna
29 November 2018 - 4:16 PM suministrosostenible.jpg - [1,94Mb]
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- dribes
  14 December 2018 - 11:34 AM Muy interesante! Mezclando actuación a nivel municipal y a nivel particular
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- Fascinante!
  Darién Miranda
  29 November 2018 - 4:22 PM Las dos líneas de agua me parece muy buena, lo que le podría agregar es un módulo que detecte si el agua no-potable es lo suficientemente buena para utilizarse o mandarla al drenaje.
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Svandpe: make the rain a piece of art
Tito Alexander Arzuaga Gonzalez
27 November 2018 - 9:59 AM We address cloudburst problem while combining it with social and design improvements. A water management infrastructure of lakes, channels and “Svandpe” aim to use the water to make the park attractive together with outdoor facilities and to translate the risk of the area in its identity. Svandpe_POWER Idea Contest for Sustainable Communities.docx - [457,88Kb]
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- Pernille Bjørnskov
  26 December 2018 - 4:42 PM Hello guys, I'm a student of sustainable business, and this project sounds very interesting. Good luck with it!
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- Great Idea
  Steak McBake
  04 December 2018 - 0:32 PM Hi Tito, I'm a climate change student and I'm really interested by your idea. I hope you get the chance to go forward with your project!
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Rain gardens in Sabadell
asm.fernandes
21 November 2018 - 10:54 PM Providing educational enlightenment on rain gardens to Sabadell's population and boosting its making. The average monthly amount of precipitation has been recorded at around 60 mm. Wich makes it applicable in cities like Sabadell. By collecting the clean rainwater in people rain garden’s shallow depression they will make a contribution to preserving and conserving rainwater. Instead of sending clean rainwater to the sewer the water can then be soaked into the ground and possibly even help to recharge local groundwater systems.
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- Sounds good
  Kalina DrenSka
  23 November 2018 - 2:57 PM Hi, this is an interesting idea! I saw something similar in Rotterdam - the city has created a skate and sports park that looks a bit like a pool and when it rains, it collects rain water. This way you have a drainage system, a way to collect reusable water and a nice addition to the urban environment. Maybe you can add something similar to your proposal? Here's the example: https://inhabitat.com/watersquare-benthemplein-is-the-worlds-first-public-water-park-fed-by-collected-rainwater/
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the new water bill
Inês Camilo
21 November 2018 - 10:17 PM concurso.pdf - [124,17Kb]
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- Great idea!
  Kalina DrenSka
  23 November 2018 - 3:10 PM Hi there, this sounds very good. However, not only households get water bills, but also companies, institutions etc. Maybe you can develop targeted tips for schools, companies etc.
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Recycling water
Diogo Borges Sousa
21 November 2018 - 10:7 PM Recycling water.pdf - [103,35Kb]
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- dribes
  14 December 2018 - 11:31 AM Nice! Do you think people is willing to use reused water? Or your idea should go along with an awareness campaign about the benefits of reused water?
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Water Footprint Contest
Lora Simeonova
21 November 2018 - 10:5 PM Water Footprint contest has as main purpose educate everybody about their direct and indirect water consumption through workshops and a competition between family teams and between schools. This contest will not only teach people how to reduce their water footprint but it will also help developing the local economy, the social interaction and it will rise more conscious citizens. Water Footprint contest´ wants to involve children because they are like a new scrapbook ready to be written, in other words, children are ready to learn and share this new knowledge with everybody, contributing to the education of everybody. Power contest_Sabadell.pdf - [110,44Kb]
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- Competition AND collaboration
  Kalina DrenSka
  23 November 2018 - 3:52 PM This is a complex and well-thought-out idea. I like the competing part, however, I think the collaborative element is missing a little bit. Kids can be discouraged to reduce their water consumption after the competition, if their team is on the losing side. A way to avoid this is to introduce a collective goal for the whole school/ class. For example, the school says that the common target is to save XXX liters of water until the end of the school year. This way pupils will work towards the collective goal AND towards the individual goal in their families.
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Start use more non-potable water
Patricia Santos
21 November 2018 - 7:4 PM What would the world be like if we started using more non-potable water in order to have a more sustainable attitude? Sabadell.docx - [12,61Kb]
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- Maybe draw a sketch
  Kalina DrenSka
  23 November 2018 - 4:4 PM Sounds good. How exactly would this app look like? Can you draw a first sketch of the app and its functionalities and features so that it is clearer for people how it looks and works?
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The Consumer Payer Adapted Principle
Simone Maciel
21 November 2018 - 5:33 PM Apply different taxes for potable and non-potable water, in order to motivate population to save water consumption. The city responsables must improve the knowledge about the safe quality of non-potable water and the advantages on the rationalization of this resource. POWER Idea Contest for Sustainable Communities - english version.docx - [13,42Kb]
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- Very ambitious
  Kalina DrenSka
  23 November 2018 - 5:13 PM This is a very ambitious and complex idea that is connected to a lot of coordination on a municipal level. I like the idea with the taxes and I really liked that you consider education for the biggest consumers of water - different industry sectors. Could you possibly describe further how these educational and awareness building programs might look like for the different target groups?
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Green alert
Dodo
20 November 2018 - 3:33 PM Green alert helps you create signals about sustainability, ecological and urban development issues in your city. You login, go to a virtual map, localize the place where you saw the problem, describe the problem briefly (e.g. "Poluted lake in the local park"), attach photos to prove your claim and submit it. Submissions are classified as recent, ongoing and solved. If you want to further engage with the problem you saw, you can create an action and spread it on social media to attract others and volunteer together to clean/repair the place/item etc. Or you can quickly inform thye local municipality about the problem via the platform, so that they take action. The idea can be implemented in every city, also in Sabadell, to help citizens keep the city clean and nice. For example, people in Sabadell can use it to report problems in Parc de Catalunya. Green alert_pic.jpg - [98,26Kb]
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- dribes
  14 December 2018 - 11:27 AM Nice idea! What about doing it through and app and geolocalizing it, so you can immediately report any substantiality issue without having to search for the exact spot on a virtual map?
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App "Throw it!"
Petia Petrova
18 November 2018 - 3:10 PM "Throw it" is an app which aims to help people to recycle better. It combines challenges, games, learning, discounts and helping nature - all in one place. It is a good opportunity because it helps you both to have fun and recycle while learning. Moreover, you can post a signal for a dirty place and prevent it to happen again. Share it with your friends and make the world a better place. The project aims to reduce water usage and to promote cleaning the environment, to create habits and to motive people to take care of nature. 46479621_250204152314065_7791750473777676288_n.jpg - [693,49Kb]
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- Good idea
  Tito Alexander Arzuaga Gonzalez
  05 January 2019 - 11:42 AM Petia. Very interesting idea. I like the fact that it is possible to relate with other while interacting and learning. I think that if you put GIS display for the performance of the app will improve it a lot! -Tito
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- Petia Petrova
  18 November 2018 - 3:55 PM Very good idea, thank you, Mathias!
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- Petia Petrova
  18 November 2018 - 3:40 PM Very good idea, thank you, Mathias!
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- Very nice idea!
  Mathias
  18 November 2018 - 3:17 PM One thought I had: How about adding a feature that allows people to help each other bringing large/bulky things to the recycle area? For instance if I have some peice of furniture to throw away and I knew about a someone in my area who wants to get rid of his/her old broken TV, then I could just offer to pick it up and take it with me...
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App for shops which help with recycling
Mariya Nedkova
18 November 2018 - 2:47 PM Hey, do you want to participate in a project that helps in the increase of plastic recycling and collection of some dangerous products after the end of their life like batteries and phones. Let's build an app which shows us all the shops and markets in the area where you can return some of your clothes or plastic bags. This will create an excellent reputation for you and your business. It will also help the environment in Sabadell, by reduction in the raw materials which are used in the manifacturing process due to the recycling. And also the gift voucher may be electronic or to be in the form of a cloth bag or glass bottle for example. IMG 20181118.jpg - [2,55Mb]
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- Petia Petrova
  18 November 2018 - 3:10 PM Great idea!
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- App to piggy bag on?
  eduardo
  18 November 2018 - 3:0 PM May be this app can be done as a feature on google maps or facebook, that way the development expenses are reduced.
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- ksenia
  18 November 2018 - 2:58 PM Great idea! Apart from reputation building, what could be the benefit to the companies to engage with the application and provide recycle points?
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Recycle Benefits Calculator
svbg
18 November 2018 - 2:40 PM This is a state-of-art novel application which allows to received part of your spend money back to you in forms of bus tickets and gits vouchers. To take benefits of the app you have to download it, register, collect your plastic, paper and glass rubbish. When you collect enough amount entre it and the app will let you know when and where you can return it. Our innovative idea is based on complex mathematical calculator which calculate not only your benefits (bus tikests, vouchers) based on amount of return rubbish but also your behaviour under environment. The use of application increase the amout of recycle plastic, paper and glass rubbish. So, this allows to increase the quality of water (less rubbish), save trees (recycle paper) and use less oil for plastic production. IMG_0548.jpg - [1,73Mb]
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- dribes
  14 December 2018 - 10:59 AM Really interesting! As part of your benchmarking, have you checked what is doing Istanbul where you can use recycled bottles to pay the subway? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/world/europe/istanbul-vending-machines-recycling-subway.html
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- This idea hits two targets!
  eduardo
  18 November 2018 - 2:50 PM This idea hits two targets, it does not only help with recycling, but it also encourages users to ditch the car in favour of public transportation. I think as a follow-up, the authors could consider explaining what it means that the saving calculation is done via complex mathematical calculations.
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- ksenia
  18 November 2018 - 2:46 PM Great Idea! I think people will be really motivated to take part in it. However, how does your business model look like?
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sustainable sabadell
Angel Tomov
18 November 2018 - 2:35 PM The basic idea is to develop recycling habits into the citizens as well as the firms in the city. Items that must be recycled(cosmetics,medicine,batteries,chargers,plastic etc.) A website with 8 sections will be built, with them being as follows: 1. Info(basic info about the campaign) 2.Firms(how firms can participate in the campaign) 3.Calculator( this will be a calculator, which will calculate what you will receive based on your items that you want to recycle. ( the prizes can be food vouchers or transport tickets) 4. Application( this will be with 2 version, for kids and for adults. The kid's version will be more like a game and will show the kids the effects of not-recycling your trash on the environment and on the water specifically, where as the Adult version will be with Best Practices and more detailed information.) 5. Electric trucks( to be used to pickup recycled trash from citizens in different locations in the city) 6.google maps( this will show different places that accept recycled trash) 7.subscription(this will send all interested parties, the results of the campaign, best practices, future ideas etc.) 8. Leaderboard( this will show the highest contributing people from the region. With each month the highest contributor will be awarded with a certificate from city counsel for the most sustainable person). Picture..jpg - [2,28Mb]
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- ksenia
  18 November 2018 - 2:48 PM Great idea! How can you motivate the children to use the application? For which age group is that thought? Would that be a part of their curriculum?
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Recycle.IO (RIO)
spyker
18 November 2018 - 2:34 PM Recycle.io (RIO) aims to make the recycling of common household items convenient while still being beneficial to the environment. Information for the type of recyclables and collection points, through the integration of Google Maps and POI, are presented to the customer through either a web page or a mobile app. Having more people recycling plastics reduces the volume of harmful, non-degradable items in the water sources and open oceans. Recycling clothes can, potentially, save the water used during the manufacturing process, same goes for glassware. Recycling expired pharmaceutical drugs and cosmetics can save them from being dumped in the water network, thus saving cost & effort for water filtering for further uses. Recycle.io (RIO) is a simple and cost-effective way to easily deliver the goal of convenient recycling. 46426329_286353015329239_4355219682798600192_gt.jpg - [90,69Kb]
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- Cool idea!
  Mathias
  18 November 2018 - 3:10 PM I like the idea! And it would indeed be important that people recycle more in any city. Yet, I think, it's also important that you provide more information about what they can/should recycle. Maybe an easy-to-use wizzard could be added to find out what item you currently have and then guides you through the right drop-off for recycling at the right location?
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- ksenia
  18 November 2018 - 2:50 PM Great idea! I think that is something any city really needs! If people knew where to find information about recycle bins, they would recycle more. Would that also entail recycling many different kinds of materials? If so, what could be the potential risks?
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Want to help saving lots of gallons of water from producing clothes? There is a platform for that! You can donate old clothes or get your new findings using the New-Old-Trend platform.
Stefaniya
18 November 2018 - 2:28 PM Random facts about clothes: - 700 gallons of water is needed to produce a single T-Shirt! - Only 20% of textiles globally are recycled, the other 80% are lost in landfill. Well, 700 gallons of water is a lot! Imagine how much will be needed for one complete outfit. If we reuse our clothes and double their life from one to two years, this can reduce the harmful emissions with 24% per year. Let's try to save some water and emissions by simply exchanging our clothes. It is easy! 46479331_194527111422821_3524183394088910848_n.jpg - [155,89Kb]
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Give and live
borveltos
18 November 2018 - 2:25 PM "Give and live" decreases the number of expired household items and through recycling increases the longevity of yourself and your planet. The project provides you the opportunity to help recycle batteries, clothes, shoes, phones, cosmetics and many more while earning yourself discounts at stores, points on the web and most importantly, a reduced footprint on the environment. Recycling helps to reduce the consumption of water and energy during new production cycles and to prevent water contamination (eg. from flushing used cosmetics or pharmaceuticals). We should use existing resources wisely! 46419055_2035115973215110_6401166313896542208_n.jpg - [262,65Kb]
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- Petia Petrova
  18 November 2018 - 3:12 PM Good idea! I like it :)
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- ksenia
  18 November 2018 - 2:54 PM Great Idea about recycling ! However how does your business model look like?
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The "Green App"
RumiPopova
18 November 2018 - 2:23 PM I am looking fot an easy every-day solution for our "green" problems. My App will motivate the people to be a part of an eco society, understanding the meaning ot every piece of paper/glass/ plastic for the environment and involving all friends and neighbors in the idea! 20181118_154005.jpg - [3,16Mb]
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- Piece by piece
  dribes
  14 December 2018 - 10:48 AM Really cool approach to show that every little step matters!
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- ksenia
  18 November 2018 - 2:55 PM Great idea! Who is your main target group?
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- Nice social network for sustainability
  Mathias
  18 November 2018 - 2:51 PM Good idea to connect with my peers to support sustainable actions! Imagine you had the app developed and ready, where would you start to promote it and how would your first let's say 100 users?
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- Very nice idea, I can't wait to hear more about it ;)
  Angel Tomov
  18 November 2018 - 2:37 PM
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Rainwater – An alternative
Ana Oliveira
17 November 2018 - 9:46 PM Rainwater â An alternative.pdf - [108,83Kb]
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- Nice idea to use rain water as non-potable water. Do you know what is doing Sabadell right now with non-potable water? https://sabadell.power-h2020.eu/?location=challenge&loadP=380
  dribes
  14 December 2018 - 10:42 AM
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- ksenia
  18 November 2018 - 2:56 PM Great idea! What is your business model?
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Platform for sustainable water network
gandesa
14 November 2018 - 7:44 PM The region of Gandesa, Spain is very rural and agriculture is one of the biggest concerns here in terms of climate change. At the moment, the water distribution system is pretty outdated and faces a leakage issue. Our idea is to develop a platform that sensitises, educates and engages all stakeholders involved in the area (farmers, citizens, administration, experts) to implement a smart pipe network. Platform for sustainable water network.docx - [12,75Kb]
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- Really interesting the fact that consider all the stakeholders!
  dribes
  14 December 2018 - 10:40 AM
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- Leticia
  15 November 2018 - 5:22 PM Interesting project. Can you please briefly expand about Gandesa’s smart pipe network? What are the main benefits for the farmers and citizens?
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How to describe your idea
Mathias
09 October 2018 - 1:13 PM This is a template document for your idea submission showing the most important aspects that your idea submission should include. Idea submision template - Sabadell.pdf - [716Kb]
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