Plastic Fischer's open-source technology and innovative financing models empowers local communities to collect and recycle river plastic, which otherwise would have entered the oceans.
Project Category: 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
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The Blooming Project – Cut flowers seasonal, regional, wild
The Blooming Project is part of the Slowflower movement. With their regional, seasonal and organically grown cut flowers, they create a positive momentum to transform the sector towards sustainability.
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Orange Sky – Positively connecting communities
Orange Sky is a non-profit organisation providing free laundry, warm showers and genuine conversation for homeless people.
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Plasticpreneur – Empowering people to recycle plastic waste
Plasticpreneur develops machines which empower people across the world to turn plastic waste into new valuable products.
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Education for Housing Swap – Empowering children from deprived neighbourhoods
Swap Education for Housing engages young people as youth mentors who live on-site in deprived neighbourhoods.
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Helping Hands – Neighborhood support app
Helping Hands is a web-based app that empowers all of us to provide neighborhood assistance during the Corona epidemic.
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Sanergy – Pioneering a zero organic waste economy
Sanergy pioneers a zero waste economy by turning organic waste from sanitary facilities, households or farms into new valuable products.
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Liter of Light
Liter of Light is a global, grassroots movement commited to providing affordable, sustainable solar light to people with limited or no access to electricity.
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Bottle Refund App
The App “Pfandgeben” allows informal bottle collectors to pick up their goods directly at your household, which drastically improves their work conditions.
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X-runner – Affordable waterless toilets
The Swiss-Peruvian women-led social enterprise gives low-income urban communities access to clean and affordable sanitation facilities.