Lomi Improves In-Home Composting- Let's Catch Up #18

Funding access for SME’s, Packtothefuture ecommerce solutions, Pela bio plastic phone cases, recycling concrete waste, repurposing used tyres, Leaf solar mobile charger, Cadbury new block

Jun 17, 2024

After working many years with multinationals I wanted to help smaller and medium businesses change, grow and provide sustainable products. With this new focus on assisting SME’s access my services I also come across a lot of funding and support opportunities that my clients can leverage.

So this week I wanted to share some of the resources that I talk with my clients about accessing to help their businesses grow and explore novel solutions.

The Latest SME Support Resources

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Lomi Automated In-Home Composting Solution

Product Design

Tackling food waste is challenging, Lomi introduces easy, convenient and accessible composting that accelerates composting in home. This great product from Pela enables people to easily compost food waste at home to create usable soil quickly and without the smell. I especially like this as a solution for apartments or small homes without access to green composting kerbside programs. Additionally the Lumi also provides data on reduced Co2 impact as well as other data to make you proud of your efforts. This product was developed by Pela, who are an innovative company (featured in the next story) aiming to reduce the impact of waste.

Lomi Website

Pela Use Flaxstic™ Bioplastic Made From Flax Straw

Sustainability

Credit Pelacase.com

Pela are bringing a suite of sustainable phone accessories created from flax waste. Flaxstic™ is an innovative material that can substitute traditional plastics. It is a bio polymer that can be industrially composted to ensure it lessens its impact to the environment. Great to see more companies using these new materials.

Pela Website

Reducing carbon impact and repurposing waste concrete

Sustainability

Credit Australian Circular Economy Hub

Building and Construction accounts for 18% of Australia’s carbon footprint. Research from Cambridge University has proven a method utilising electric arc furnaces used in steel production to reactivate waste cement. Traditionally limestone is heated with fossil fuels to extreme temperatures, so this innovative process re-activates the cement by exposing it to high temperatures in steel production. This can reduce the overall impact of cement and improve steel production efficiency as its by-product is cement production. Company Celsa is looking to scale the process in its full scale electric arc furnace.

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Celsa Website

Keep On Rollin, Tyres Repurposed

Sustainability

Credit Magda Ehlers (Pexels)

11 million tyres are sent to landfill, illegally dumped or stockpiled every year in Australia. As an essential product that is needed to help our economy and society function, tyres are not being seen as a valuable resource. Research from UNSW has developed a technology that could replace coal burning in steel production with waste tyres. Using waste tyres in this manner creates a feedstock of hydrogen and solid carbon to power production.

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Leaf Portable Solar Charger for Mobile Phones

Product Design

This concept for solar charging of mobile devices harnesses energy that is accessible and eternally renewable, the sun. Inspired by photosynthesis, the leaf can be charged via its internal solar panel and then latched onto your mobile to to recharge it conveniently.

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New Chocolates On The Block

Food, Chocolate

Credit Inside FMCG

Nothing like chocolate to lift the mood. Cadbury and Kitkat bringing out new blocks to provide new eating experiences for the masses. Cadbury’s partnership with Curtis Stone has produced a unique flavour: vanilla and key lime pie. KitKat has not been quite so adventurous with their new block. But instead they are catering to an alternative market than traditionally with their new plant-based KitKat block.