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Materials impact the environment, society and economy. Under Horizon 2020, the EU‘s research and innovation programme, about €2 billion in EU funding, has supported research in advanced ORGANIC WASTE materials. APPLE SKIN™ BECOMES More information on EU funding: Vegan leather from https://europa.eu/!MJ49rK apple pomace FASHIONABLE

AppleSkin™ is a bio-based alternative to leather, combining European Commission performance and circularity with www.ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation_en ‘Made in Italy’ quality.

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PLANT-BASED LEATHER ALTERNATIVE WITH A LOW CARBON FOOTPRINT

According to figures from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (2016), consuming one kilogramme of fresh pork releases around 3.25 kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere; for beef, it is even more – 13.31 kg of Greenhouse WANT TO Gas emissions. To reduce CO₂ emissions, it is LEARN MORE? therefore recommended to reduce meat consumption. This development also affects some Frumat® was At temperatures of around 130 °C, the materials of the by-products of the meat industry, such as fuse together. A variety of textures and thicknesses Producer leather. In recent years, a completely new industrial born out of the are achieved by fin al embossing or laser Frumat Srl sector for the production of vegan leather processing. AppleSkin™ can be easily personalised Via T. A. Edison 15 alternatives with high growth rates has been idea of recycling and produced on demand. Currently, the material is 39100 Bolzano established in the EU. One of the protagonists of being used in the fashion and furnishing Italy this new sector is the company Frumat from industrial organic industries. Bolzano in South Tyrol. A particularly thick variant of the material from 50 % Hannes Parth waste and trans- recycled apple pomace and 50 % polyurethane is Phone: +39 471 052635 The region in north Italy is renowned for its used in shoe manufacture, for bags and upholstery. E-mail: [email protected] apple processing industry which is faced with a forming it into At the moment, Frumat is working on a cellulose- www.frumat.it significant amount of organic waste. Frumat’s based leather alternative for the automotive sector. founder Hannes Parth came up with the idea to raw materials. develop a plant leather-like alternative from More beneﬁts apple pomace. AppleSkin™ consists mostly from Hannes Parth, CEO Frumat Hannes Parth offers an ecological, high performing organic residues such as stems, seeds, apple peels alternative to animal leather. The new raw material and fibers. The residues are first dried, transferred answers both the local apple-waste issue and the to a fine cellulose powder, mixed with a bioplastic increasing demand for vegan leather alternative and applied in layers to a carrier such as cotton. with a low carbon footprint. UNFOLD ME “We recover the industrial APPLE SKIN™ waste of the apple juice Vegan leather made production and transform it from apple pomace into new raw materials.” Hannes Parth, CEO Frumat

billion tonnes of waste burned in UPCYCLING Europe every year FROM FOOD WASTE that could be 3 raw materials for new products AppleSkin™: upcycled, ecological, environmental & animal friendly APPLE POMACE consists mainly of cellulose, Natural which is a wonderful raw fruit material for the production Cellulose of a textile material. powder

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Juices Apple and jam residues © European Union, 2020 Materials impact the environment, society and economy. Under Horizon 2020, the EU‘s research and innovation programme, about €2 billion in EU funding, has supported KOHPA® research in advanced materials. CONDUCTIVE KOHPA® More information on EU funding: Electrically PAPER conductive paper https://europa.eu/!MJ49rK

A paper made from recycled carbon and paper ﬁ bers with multiple applications oﬀ ering sustainable solutions for the environment European Commission www.ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation_en and technology.

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PAPER WITH Le Pli – KOHPA® wireless lamp Sascha dos Santos and Tilmann Studinsky have VARIOUS FUNCTIONS used KOHPA® conductive paper to design a LED lamp that is wireless. Cleverly constructed almost entirely of folded paper, its angular body KOHPA® is the world‘s first paper with electrically consists of just 3 paper layers – 2 of which are conductive functions based on the integration of electrically conductive. The power supply works carbon fibers into the cellulose matrix. The carbon with a simple wood stand that the paper lamp fibers are extracted from composite materials can be plugged into. This way, apart from the cord by pyrolytic processing. The resin is removed by providing the stand with power, no cable is sublimation under high temperature and exclusion of needed for Le Pli to function! Installation of the oxygen. After the process, the carbon fiber is residue- LEDs directly on the paper also keeps the design free for further processing. light and free of non-essential components.

Radiation Protection In the course of investigations, one example showed that the electromagnetic radiation (EM radiation) was clearly reduced by the paper structure. It follows that the paper is suitable for or electrical shielding Indication Unit Value to protect man and beast against electrical, WANT TO magnetic and EM radiation. Grammage g / m² 75 – 80 LEARN MORE? Material thickness µm 200 – 250 The electrical Possible Uses There are unlimited possibilities in heat emission Air permeability l/m²s 95 conductivity of Producer ranges. Floors and walls are as easily heated as RESO Oberflächentechnik GmbH difficult to access areas and complex forms. The Application panel heating KOHPA® can be Karlstr. 48 maximum advantage is achieved by the low space 86415 Mering consumption and the good formability. It is the Temperature increase up to °C 30 – 70 used to generate Germany in the world. thinnest and lightest panel heating Required electrical power W/m² 130 – 200 The economic efficiency is shown in comparison light or as Dipl. Ing. Walter Reichel Phone: to conventional heating systems primarily by the Application Shielding +49 8233 743 91 75 E-mail: radiant heat achieved. This goes hand in hand with surface heating. [email protected] energy savings, which lowers heating costs. The Shielding degree % 99 – 99,999 www.kohpa.com carbon paper can also be made waterproof. Wet Walter Reichel, RESO Ober lächentechnik Shielding e ectiveness db 20 – 50 deformation, different degrees of absorbency and targeted air permeability values can be set according UNFOLD ME to the corresponding requirements. Can reach KOHPA® SURFACE Electrically conductive paper TEMPERATURES of up to

PROTECTION against electromagnetic ﬁ elds 100 % Recycled carbon and 120 °C paper ﬁ bers

ADVANTAGES OVER CONVENTIONAL HEATING SYSTEMS

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easy formability low space low costs reduced house requirement dust circulation

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Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Step 4: Cut the KOHPA® into two strips of Put the paper in between the KOHPA® Attach the enclosed LED to the Press the two KOHPA® strips onto the equal size and a sheet of normal strips as insulation. Make sure the KOHPA® strips with the wires on one battery and the lamp will light up. paper to about 6x18 cm. paper sticks out slightly at the top and side each. Insert a button cell battery If the LED doesn’t light up, turn the the sides. Fold the uninsulated parts (3V) between the KOHPA® strips. battery around – the current only fl ows © European Union, 2020 of the KOHPA® outwards, so they don’t in one direction with LED. touch each other.

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HIGH-TECH TEXTILE FOR A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE

What nature has successfully used for thousands of years to survive in arid regions could be an important solution to the increasing water shortage WANT TO for many people, especially in developing LEARN MORE? countries. The new high-performance textile is the result of years of bionic research at the DITF Denkendorf. Essedea, a manufacturer of technical Developer 3D textiles, was responsible for the technical German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research production implementation. Körschtalstr. 26 73770 Denkendorf, Germany The old principle of catching fog by stretching Dr. Thomas Stegmaier, Dr. Jamal Sarsour Parameter Unit Fabric raschel nets has been completely overtaken by the E-mail: [email protected] new material: water separation is many times Area density g / m² ca. 190 www.ditf.de more effective than all previously used two- Our high tech dimensional nets (the third dimension increases Air permeability ml / min *dm² ca. 8.450 Producer the contact surface with fog), UV resistance even textiles can Essedea GmbH & Co. KG Burst-bulging test in extremely high solar radiation such as in deserts, Lothforster Str. 50 and even storms with wind speeds of up to extensively Bursting pressure KPa 142 41849 Wassenberg 120 km/h do not limit its functionality. Up to Germany 66 l of water per m² per day can be extracted contribute to a Bulging height mm 39 from fog. In the meantime, the textile has been in Dirk Schulze Fog separation degree continuous use worldwide for several years. The better quality of Phone: +49 2432 964 461 great potential of the material can unfold wherever Relation of separated to perfused E-mail: [email protected] % 75 – 85 there is sufficient wind and fog. It can be used for life for many amount of water www.essedea.de the production of drinking water in areas without Pull-elongation properties along/cross access to water sources, but also for the irrigation people worldwide. of large areas of land in agriculture, viticulture or Team Essedea texolutions Maximum tensile force N / 5 cm ca. 360 / 260 on golf courses, for example. Maximum tensile force elongation % ca. 44 / 186 UNFOLD ME @EUScienceInnov #InvestEUResearch #EUGreenDeal NAMIB BEETLE up to of passing fog 85 % is separated TEST IT TEXTILE Observe the drop formation to water on the sample textile by using a plant sprayer as a Drinking water substitute for fog from fog

WATER EXTRACTION ACCESS TO WATER

Today: 1.2 billion people have no access to springs or pipe systems

2025: up to 66 liters 2.3 billion people per sqm per day will have no access to springs or pipe systems (many times more effective than conventional materials)

Water gaining costs for Namib Textile “The water is are calculated from about in the air, you just 2–3 € have to catch it.” per 1000 l water Dr. Jamal Sarsour, DITF Denkendorf © European Union, 2020 Materials impact the environment, society and economy. Under Horizon 2020, the EU‘s research and innovation programme, about €2 billion in EU funding, has supported ORGANIC research in advanced INSULATION FOR materials. NEPTUTHERM® BUILDINGS AND More information on EU funding: 100 % organic https://europa.eu/!MJ49rK insulation material APPLICATIONS

NeptuTherm® reduces the loss of thermal energy in winter

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SEAGRASS AS A Parameter Unit Fibres WANT TO NATURAL INSULATION Thermal conductivity λD W/mK 0.039 LEARN MORE? MATERIAL Rated value λ (DIN 4108) W/mK 0.046

Heat storage capacity J/kgK > 2,500 Producer NeptuGmbH Water absorption capacity kg/kg 1.6 to 3.4 Im Speitel 56 Neptune balls are a waste product of seagrass 76229 Karlsruhe meadows around the Mediterranean Sea and ORGANICGermany are created by wave movements. The mother plant plays an important role in the global Monika und Michael Meier ecosystem, as one hectare stores 10 times INSULATIONPhone: +49 721 946 33 49 FOR E- more CO₂ and can convert 5 times as much CO₂ mail: [email protected] into oxygen as the same area of rainforest. BUILDINGSwww.NeptuTherm.de AND

Seagrass characteristics 1 00 % The fibres have a high mould resistance, are organic and completely APPLICATIONS In today’s world poorly flammable (B2) and have a measured free of toxic matter heat conduction of only 0.039 watts per with [...] the Kelvin and metre – and all this by nature. These properties make them ideal for sustainable use growing awareness in the construction industry. In addition, the fibers have an excellent heat storage capacity of the environment of over 2,500 joules per kilogramme Kelvin. Neptune grass thus exceeds the heat storage in all sections [...], it capacity of all known insulation materials.

is an indispensable Disposal in the event of a later demolition is completely unproblematic: if the Neptune fibers must to follow this are not reused in another building, they can simply be raked into the garden soil as a path in construction planting substrate to loosen up the soil. as well.

NeptuTherm® UNFOLD ME DID YOU @EUScienceInnov NEPTUTHERM® #InvestEUResearch KNOW? #EUGreenDeal 100 % organic insulation material The German professor of architecture Richard Meier, an enthusiastic kiter, and his wife Monika spent their summer holidays in Spain.

While on the beach, they noticed these small brown felt balls, pulled them apart and examined them. A friend pointed out to them that the weird 1 hectare of seagrass stores 10x more carbon dioxide and balls were not even good for lighting the ﬁ re. Immediately, the idea was born to make a heat can as much carbon dioxide into oxygen convert 5x insulation out of the wool. as the same area of a tropical rainforest.

Tests conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics conﬁ rmed its naturally outstanding properties.

Carbon footprint of 1 kg Glass wool Carbon footprint of 1 kg = carbon dioxide = oxygen Australia Source: James Cook University NeptuTherm® SPECIFIC HEAT CAPACITY 99,9 % up to reduced carbon footprint compared to the production of 1kg glass wool Source: FNR Research Project 2020, Nawaro insulation materials, Source: FNR Research Project 2020, Nawaro insulation materials, of Stuttgart, Institute IABP in cooperation with the University

2,599 K J/kg NeptuTherm®

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Materials impact the environment, society and economy. Under Horizon 2020, the EU‘s research and innovation programme, about €2 billion in EU funding, has supported OOHO! AN research in advanced INNOVATIVE materials. O0HO BUBBLES ALTERNATIVE More information on EU funding: Edible packaging https://europa.eu/!MJ49rK for liquids TO PLASTIC BOTTLES

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Seaweed is one of nature’s most renewable OOHO WATER, resources. It grows fast, up to 1 meter per day. It EDIBLE AND doesn’t compete with food crops for land, unlike biosourced plastics such as polylactic acid (PLA). BIODEGRADABLE Seaweed doesn’t need fresh water or fertiliser to grow, it can virtually be farmed or harvested on any coastline. Seaweed is also a great carbon sink. Made by Notpla, a start-up pioneering the use of As any plant does, seaweed actively sequesters seaweed extracts and plant-based ingredients CO₂ but also participates in the de-acidification of to create alternative solutions for single-use the oceans. packaging, Ooho is an edible packaging that can contain beverages and condiment sauces. Oohos are Ooho could massively reduce the waste problem at 100 % home compostable in a matter of weeks. major events such as concerts, festivals and Ooho arises from the need to find an alternative to sporting events by replacing plastic cups and the millions of plastic bottles that are used and bottles. Notpla provided 35k oohos for the runners discarded every day for water and other beverage of the London Marathon in 2019. consumption. It is important to note that the vast majority is not recycled and ends up damaging the environment. What is it made of? The way nature encapsulates liquids is truly inspiring. From egg yolks to our own cells, nature WANT TO uses membranes to protect precious contents from the outside. Ooho has focused its efforts on LEARN MORE? WHERE DOES creating a cost competitive sachet made from THE PLASTIC an abundant natural resource that disappears as quickly as natural food waste: seaweed. Our We make Producer WASTE GO? material can in fact be treated just like food and Notpla Limited disposed of as food waste, but even if it goes in packaging Unit 8B Queen‘s Yard, White Post the general waste and ends up in landfill it will Lane, E9 5EN 79 % is sent to landfills, dumps London, UK degrade to its original elements. The circularity or into disappear! here is in its rawest form of biological recycling, natural environment Phone: +44 744 993 79 36 with the material breaking down into basic Notpla Ltd. biological molecules that can be used again E-mail: [email protected] by seaweed or other organisms to grow. www.notpla.com

12 % gets incinerated UNFOLD ME 9 % gets recycled Source: https://www.unenvironment.org/interactive/beat-plastic-pollution/ Sea pollutionﬁ gures source:https://oneearth-oneocean.com/en be recyclableby theendofdecade. As astrategy, allplasticpackagingshould reduce theamountofplasticwasteby 2030. The EuropeanCommissionplanstomassively ecosystems. many places,withanegativeimpactonour found itswayintonatureandtheoceansin landﬁ lled inrecentyears,plasticwastehas this hasnotalwaysbeenproperlyrecycledor plastic packagingperpersoneveryyear. Since leaves about31kg ofwastematerialfrom On average,thelifestyle ofeveryEuropean Edible packaging LEAVE BEHIND WHAT WE BUBBLES O0HO 1 origin ashore,about3/4of 50 of marinewastehasits it aremadeofplastic 80 seabirds peryear 1 plastic waste are dyingof ENVIRONMENT AND OUR USFOR BENEFITS m. %

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