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Through providing furniture extended life cycles and creating a new sustainable business model Mjuk contributes directly to the UN Sustainable Development Goals of Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG12) and Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG8). Oh, and did we mention that for every piece of furniture sold, Mjuk plants a tree, thus helping to create a carbon sink supporting the Climate Action SDG (SDG13).
PiggyBaggy is a crowdsourced goods delivery service. The company’s aim is to make society more sustainable and efficient by helping citizens, the public sector and businesses to improve their ways of working. The innovation is a ride-sharing-based service where people transport each other’s packages along their daily commute. PiggyBaggy offers significant benefits to society, businesses and the environment and it creates particularly ecological and social, but also economic impact. Doing so, this particular innovation especially tackles SDG’s 10,11 and 12: reduced inequalities, sustainable cities and communities as well as responsible consumption and production. It further addresses SDG’s 13 and 17: climate action and partnership for the goals.
The innovation is a new technology that allows production of a cotton-like fiber out of textile, cardboard and agricultural waste and pulp. The technology does not compromise the quality of the fiber, and it can be used as a substitute to virgin cotton material.
The use of technology has a direct impact on reducing the need for virgin materials, water usage in producing cotton and decreasing the amount of waste in landfills. Therefore, the innovation clearly contributes to achievement of several sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The main purpose of Lantmännen Agroetanol’s Agro Recycling plant is to recycle residual material such as excess bread, dough, and other food waste produced by the food industry. By further processing waste, the company is able to lower greenhouse gas emissions and make something useful out of the food waste.
This car-sharing service decreases the number of cars in growing cities, as people do not necessarily need to own a car but can use this service instead. This innovation especially relates to solving SDG 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities. Other SDGs that this innovation helps solving is SDG 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure and SDG 12, Responsible Consumption and Production. (United Nations, 2019)
United Nations, 2019. Sustainable Development Goals. Available at: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs [Accessed 4 October 2019]
Essen Speciality Films Private Limited has undertaken various initiatives, to ensure sustainable production along with maintaining the profitability of the business.
Ranging from cyclical production-based systems to the installation of solar panels, the organization has been working towards a better future with full force.
It has been estimated that Finnish households possess unused textiles worth more than 280ME, and approximately 90,000 kilograms of reusable textiles go to waste every year. Therefore, Finlayson started to collect surplus sheets and duvets from their customers and manufacture rag rugs out of them. The innovation of Finlayson reduces the waste of reusable textiles, while it offers economic growth through hiring subcontractors and increased sales, as rag rugs made from reused textiles are later sold at Finlayson stores in Finland.
The Colombian armed conflict involved insurgent groups of various denominations which confronted the Colombian armed forces almost daily for more than 50 years. This opened up an alternative in Colombia and a need to explore a peace dialogue with one of the main actors of the Colombian armed conflict called the Farc.
After several approaches, a mutually agreed agenda was initiated between the parties involved in this conflict where the result of these talks were the peace agreements signed in 2016. One of the points of the peace agreements was the reinstatement of the members of the FARC into society through the generation of projects that lead to the reduction of inequalities, with an established peace policy backed by justice and solid institutions that contribute to the Colombian peace process.
Panera’s “Day-End Dough-Nation” program which was started in 2017 is an important innovation that seeks to collect and package the leftover pastries and other goods from each work day and donate them to local non-profit organizations.
In the middle of the thick Colombian jungles, 200 indigenous and peasant families from the Departments of Putumayo and the Amazon extract the seeds that replaced weapons, planting illicit crops, trafficking and hopelessness. “Now we see the native fruits of our exotic land blooming, finding our identity, our productive vocation in the Colombian Amazon region. The logging of rainforests has been left in the past by a culture that hurt our Amazonian soils to death, gradually annihilating the source of life on our planet”. Says Maria Esperanza
NATURAL KATTALEI offers alternatives for the use of natural and biodegradable cosmetic products, with fruits and seeds grown and extracted from the Amazon rainforest in a sustainable way, benefiting many peasant and indigenous families in the region.
Relationship with the SDGs
The mission of Kattalei, is directly related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in the commitment to health and well-being offering high quality products that do not generate health impacts, which mitigate environmental pollution and encourage reforestation in jungle areas.
They promote the eradication of poverty in the region of Putumayo and Amazonas, where social inequality has been a constant, for this reason they firmly believe in the possibility of decent work and economic growth at the same time, promoting fair trade throughout the chain, under the production and responsible consumption of raw materials. With a view to forming alliances with the different State and non-governmental entities in order to achieve the objectives, primarily in the stability of peace and respect for human rights in our country.
Any leaf which falls from a tree has a shelf life of three days after which it gets extremely dry and can be easily crushed into crumbs. Banana Leaf Technology has come up with a radical solution where the leaves’ physical properties can be enhanced making them last up to one year with their natural green color without the use of any chemicals and up to three years without their green color with drastically improved durability and toughness from which biodegradable cups and plates can be made.
Deforestation and climate change are two of the worst forms of environmental problems the society is facing today. If this technology and business is scaled up, plastic use may be eliminated, saving the land and ocean life alike.
The company believes that humans when united bring greater good. Success for Banana Leaf Technology is about impacting human lives.
If scaled up, it could potentially disrupt the entire plastics industry while simultaneously saving life on land and water and subsequently impacting climate change.
A Zero Waste store moves beyond banning plastic bags or charging a price for them: it actively works to eliminate the use of plastic and other packaging material right from the source. This is done by selling products loose, rather than as individually packed items.
This, in a nutshell, is the Ecoposro business model, and this is how they are making waves in society.
In the long run, Voi’s innovation aims for cities free of pollution and noise, by enabling an emission-free alternative for urban transportation (Voi, 2019). They invest in continuous development of both their hardware and operations to be able to offer truly sustainable shared vehicles to the citizens of cities across the globe. What separates Voi from other micromobility players is their focus on close partnerships with cities and other private and public stakeholders (Soini, 2019).
Focused on environment, Sustainable Biosolutions LLP (SBS or Susbio) developed a revolutionary Sewage Treatment Technology (SUSBIO SBR) in collaboration with the French government body (INRA) for making wastewater reusable, complying with all Indian (Pollution Control Board) and International norms.
The company transforms sewage into drinking water (Toilet to Tap), uses 100 percent natural ways to treat wastewater, and undertakes design, installation, troubleshooting, revamping and maintenance of STPs at various scales.
You may have seen these products on commercials, but never realized how impactful they really were to this world. OnTel strives to develop solution-oriented products that have mass appeal and improve the quality of people’s lives. Their eyes and ears are always open for the next great idea, and consistently develop and innovate on their existing product lines to make them even better. Their mission as a company is to improve people’s lives at an affordable price and have created products that does just that and more.
The solution here is a new technological innovation that has immensely improved construction in China. They implanted the industrialized construction system along with products called precast concrete (PC), which allows Broad Homes to construct buildings in a greener way. The new and improved PC technology innovation covers Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities along with Goal 13: Climate Action.
The company's innovation is its Transdermal Therapeutic System (or TTS). Transdermal Therapeutic Systems are drug delivery systems that attach to the skin and release medication. This innovative product allows the patient to receive the ideal dose for any active substance. The product is used globally to help those who cannot take pills or receive injections.
The innovative business model employed by Pretty Handy Gift Shop & Makerspace, selling only local handmade goods, satisfies the UN Goals of Sustainable Cities and Communities, as well as Decent Work and Economic Growth. This business model also involves selling products that promote natural and sustainable living by using recyclable materials and minimalist packaging, which satisfies the UN Goal of Responsible Consumption.
Exquisite Property Services provides services to homeowners that leads to a positive impact on the environment. Resulting in less trash being moved to landfills and composting, reducing waste, recycling goods and materials, and reusing goods and materials. The services that EPS focuses on are property cleanup, landscaping and janitorial services. EPS uses eco-friendly products in order to clean up properties, while making the work environment safer for employees and for the property owners after the services are complete.
PolyMolding LLC is a company based in Haskell, NJ, that aims to provide efficient and durable foundations for projects ranging from bridges to auditoriums to the base of large buildings such as the World Trade Center. Their innovation involves the use of EPS foam, a light, yet durable insulation product that not only adds structure, but reduces energy use and chemical emissions.