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Our story exposes a brand new and a novel approach to water recycling developed by a French entrepreneur, Jean-Louis Manent. In a way, the innovation is kind of revolutionizing, for it depends upon recycling waste water from WCs, wash basins, dish machines, washing machines, and showers being reclaimed and cleaned, then gathered into big cisterns conveniently located near buildings for reuse. This latter process will help decrease water consumption and water bill by more than half in the future. Subsequently, at this stage this is where we estimate the prominent strength and the potential of this astonishing improvement because it will greatly help people, even in the most remote part; where water is albeit scarce and not that available in a modern era; where everyone should have access to water or any other resource facilities.
Urban waste problems are always discussed in Indonesia and the cities around the world, because almost all the cities are facing the problem of waste.
The development of the city, the population growth, and increasing levels of activities and socioeconomic conditions, are causing the increasing number of waste piles. This has caused a complex problem of insufficient facilities and infrastructure to manage garbage.
The three R's concept - reduce, reuse, and recycle - all help to cut down on the amount of waste thrown to the landfill. Omah Kenken or PT Undagi is a company engaged in waste management and creativity to implement the three R’s concept. The idea is not only to reduce, reuse, & recycle waste but also on how to make money by up-cycling activities.
Segoro Algae is empowering Indonesia's struggling coastal farmers by providing technology and training to turn seaweed production into a sustainable business. Carrageenan and other seaweed derivatives are used by the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries. They are found in a variety of personal care products, food additives, drinks, and nutritional supplements.
The company's eco-friendly manufacturing process produces zero pollution by converting any industrial waste into other useful products, such as soil fertilizer and feed additives. Segoro Algae has also developed patented technology to process waste produced by other industries. This includes transforming fish scales into high-grade, highly-sought after secondary products like fish collagen.
PetStar is the biggest PET recycling plant in the world and is located in Mexico.
PetStar's operations allow its bottling partners to incorporate up to 100% of recycled materials in their PET bottles.
Pioneers in Plantbottle technology development, PET packaging is made up of 30% of resin stemming from plants subproducts, is 100% recyclable and has a 20% smaller carbon footprint.
Mark Tranchina is owner of the Vanderbilt at South Beach on Staten Island, New York. His work at the party venue, catering hall, and restaurants left him wondering how he could make a greater impact in the community. This led to the start of the Boardwalk Days at South Beach. A prominent part of this is the Give-Back Wednesdays program, which was started in 2014. The mission of this program is "To foster a greater connection among the borough's residents, businesses, and non-profit agencies. By inviting local non-profits to engage with the community, dispense information about their organization and recruit volunteers to their cause as part of a 'Give-Back Wednesdays' program, we provide an opportunity for them to connect one-on-one with their neighbors and local business owners in an easygoing atmosphere, where information can be shared and awareness raised, all to the betterment of the Staten Island community."
This innovation emphasises on face-to-face human interaction in the digital age.
Kilimanjaro Environment is a natural organization that accumulates and recover used cooking oil in order to transform it into a bio fuel. This service provides a set of benefits to several stakeholders: society, customers, corporations and so on. It contributes to the reduction of CO2 emissions and provides a cheap and reliable energy source. The core innovation is that it represents an alternative to the polluting fossil fuel processes, as it is based on recycling leftover oil.
In Vietnam, there are many societal and environmental challenges faced by local communities. Sharing benefits with local community is one of the main purpose tackled by SABMiller Vietnam.
Box4Ps is the online clean agricultural market supported by Pizza 4P’s – a famous Italian pizza restaurant from Japan which is one of the most popular restaurants in Ho Chi Minh city rated by Trip advisor, Forces or New York Times.
The idea was raised from August 2014 with the first 3 employees: the leader – Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy and her 2 other partners. They all work for Pizza 4P's.
As the business is in Food industry, the management of Pizza 4P’s wants to bring the freshest and clean materials into their pizzas which is associated with the brand. This led them to the challenge of finding reliable supplies. At that time, Thuy was assigned to be the leader of the project.
The first thing to do is looking for the source of fresh vegetables. The team spent most of their time to travel to regions having the advantages of agricultural crops. This is not easy as most of Vietnamese farmers are used to current farming methods which use chemicals to push up the growth of vegetables or pest control. Through many meetings with farmers at Don Duong, Lam Dong province, Thuy finally found some farmers who had the same idea on offering safe and clean products to customers.
Besides, the team also conducted many market surveys to analyze the customers’ habits and demands. They also examined agricultural products’ prices at some traditional markets or big supermarket such as BigC, Coopmart or Vinmart. This helped the team to set up suitable project products’ prices.
After one-preparation year, on August 2015, the online clean agricultural market – Box4P’s was launched through the website: Box4Ps.com for supplying agricultural products in Ho Chi Minh City. On this website, the same as an online purchasing e-commerce, customers have many choices of food ingredients which are ensured by the project management for the clear origin and quality assurance. Up to now, the project has expanded with the number of employees from 3 to 40. Everyday, it receives over 200 orders which is a great deal for a new joiner in food supply industry.
The oil or chemical drums made from steel were usually left wasted at the yard which gave problems to the environment in terms of their huge volume, rusty, unpleasant view and became a place for mosquitoes to lay their eggs. Two young man from Cirebon had an idea to turn wasted drums into furniture such as sofa, table, shelf, sink, and others. These made-of-steel furniture not just long lasting and durable through times but also reducing waste from the environment and recycle it into a highly-creative furniture.
Dragonfly Bamboo, which is located in The Philippines, Vietnam, and New York, aims to deliver the most sustainable and modern products manufactured from natural bamboo while filling the gap between the traditional products and the developing market.
Matthew Chiappa has been an employee at Salesforce for a little over nine months. He was offered a position after graduating from the College of Staten Island and currently works as a software engineer on their web application, Social Studio. Salesforce stood out from the many companies he was interested in due to the fact that their particular focus is on local community affairs, as well as being a well-renowned company in his industry. Salesforce provides sincere recognition of the importance of volunteering in a community setting. Chiappa focused on the work associated with bettering the community around Salesforce.
After reflecting on the profits they received in their first year in business, Ink Couture owner, Frank Russo, and manager, Mike Russo, decided they had a responsibility to give back to the local community. They believed they could make a difference by helping to improve the lives of children with Autism. Collaborating with the non profit group, Autism Warriors, they launched an annual Autism Awareness event to fund research and raise awareness about the disorder.
Biogas is one of the best alternative renewable source of energy. It will fulfill the demand for cooking energy where there currently exists no option other than firewood. It is eco-friendly and has many other benefits such as being clean, sustainable, simple to use, and low cost.
Lebaohan Workshop has been changing the mindset of employees, making their work and life much better. An open-mind makes the difference.
Lebaohan Corporation was established in 2008 by Nguyen Trung with two main core services, architectural design and interiors construction. After nine years of operating and development, Lebaohan Corporation has become a well-known company with three subsidiaries, several offices, two factories and expanded services to six areas, including construction, decoration, media, advertising, investment and training (Lebaohan, 2006).
Following a quality-oriented development strategy, Lebaohan Corporation has built trust with many well-known brands in Vietnam. The company has built numerous chain store projects such as FPT Shop, Vinpro+, Vinmart +, Trung Nguyen Coffee, and The Coffee House. They have also completed interior design and decoration for OPPO and Samsung.
Besides focusing on how to expand and grow the company, Lebaohan Corporation is very concerned about the implementation of social responsibility. This includes participating in charitable activities and donating to organizations supporting children in difficulty. In addition to community support, Lebaohan also takes care of its employees by organizing many training workshops about technical skills in architecture for staff in order to improve their capability and expertise.