Purposes to MakeITcircular should be in by October 3, 2024 with the highest prize of €3000
MakeITcircular is the competition that promotes the Round Consumption Constitution and the values of recycling, reuse and co-design. Shifting from a linear to a “round economic system” mannequin is the important thing to enabling financial development that respects materials and pure sources and to creating a contribution to defending in opposition to local weather change, which the planet has pledged to halt by 2050.
So as to practise and encourage “round consumption“ and promote the transition from a tradition of waste to a tradition of recycling and reuse, the “Round Consumption Constitution” was created: Concepts to tell the most important selections that local weather change and ecological transition imposes on us and to affirm a fairer society and economic system. Try the principles and final 12 months’s winners beneath.
EVERY IDEA COUNTS, EVERY IDEA CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Apply now to MakeITCircular 2024 contest by October third!
The MakeITcircular contest will reward the most effective concepts which can be in keeping with the ideas of the Constitution and promote its dissemination and the involvement of various actors in its implementation.
Particularly, they’re searching for tasks that goal to:
- increase consciousness of the environmental impacts of merchandise and the economic processes that generate them;
• promote information of the ideas of “circularity” and the “environmental footprint” of merchandise/companies;
• overcome the “disposable” strategy, in consumption and manufacturing, by selling values of sturdiness, sharing, restore, repurposing and reuse of merchandise and materials sources;
• contain shoppers in defining the “circularity” traits of merchandise, serving to them to develop into conscious that their behaviour within the use and post-use part can affect that attribute.
Pure individuals of age, Italian or overseas, corporations, our bodies, associations, foundations, and/or different authorized entities, can take part.
All tasks submitted by means of Maker Faire Rome 2024’s Name for Makers within the “round economic system” class are additionally entitled to take part within the contest.
The Prizes
The Analysis Committee will establish a profitable mission and assign two honorable mentions, a 3rd point out will likely be assigned by the Assoutenti Affiliation.
The prizes, in money, will likely be, respectively:
- Successful mission: 3,000.00 (three thousand/00) euros
- Honorable point out n. 1: 1,000.00 (one thousand/00) euros
- Honorable point out n. 2: 1,000.00 (one thousand/00) euros
- Antonietta Boselli Particular Point out: Euro 1,000.00 (one thousand/00) – this point out is managed and assigned straight by the Assoutenti Affiliation.
Winners of the 2023 Version of the MakeITcircular Contest
FIRST PLACE: IOTILIZE makes use of knowledge to revolutionize waste assortment. It’s the first service in Italy for monitoring the portions of business waste, relevant to every container. This helps enhance the way in which you acquire waste, rising interventions as much as 30% with the best and most dependable service available on the market.
SECOND PLACE: iGREEN COVER
iGreen Devices has created a compostable iPhone circumstances that develop basil, daisies, and forget-me-nots when the person vegetation and recycles them as an alternative of discarding them after use. The within a part of the compostable iPhone cowl has a water-soluble protecting movie, and when it will get diluted or decomposed, the rack of seeds behind it spills the grains of basil, daisies, and forget-me-nots by itself. through designboom
THIRD PLACE: Nuova Vita Al Sottoprodotto Cartone E Non Solo
The CARTONECO “REGIONAL” APEA mission goals to attain symbiosis and sustainable industrial and technological improvement, as a way to implement round economic system processes aimed toward all of the doable synergies that may be activated in a number of sectoral areas as a way to assure the utmost effectiveness of the technique of improvement of the APEA. Ranging from FSC licensed by-products corresponding to cardboard, MDF and chipboard, new modern merchandise are created and manufactured, permitting the “residue” to be given a second life.
Particular Point out “Antonietta Boselli”: RestART, the Artwork of Restore
For years, Sergio Almerares, the creator of the RestART mission, has been engaged in mechanical, electrical, and digital restore: initially alone, then in teams. He collaborates with “The Restart Challenge,” the Restarters, the Restore Cafés, Giacimenti Urbani, the Brianza Group Consortium, the Right2Repair motion, iFixit, and different organisations to advertise a round economic system with a deal with reuse and the Proper to Restore.
For any info, please seek the advice of the rules.
The Analysis Committee
- Maria Alliney – Basic Secretary of Assoutenti (President)
- Alessandra Colombo – Round Financial system & Sustainability – Versalis
- Alessandro Ranellucci – Maker Faire Rome Curator
- Davide Zanon – Challenge Workplace Supervisor – CODICI
The Promoters
- Innova Digicam– Particular Company of the Rome Chamber of Commerce
- Client associations of the CNCU (Italian Nationwide Council of Shoppers and Customers)
In line with the European Fee’s New Round Financial system Motion Plan, the involvement of communities and likewise of residents – thought-about of their function as shoppers and customers – is a key a part of the European Union’s motion plan to speed up the transition to the brand new “round” mannequin.
By adopting behaviour and making acutely aware selections oriented in the direction of the logic of “circularity,” shoppers can cut back their very own environmental footprint and likewise stimulate change in corporations and the way in which they produce their merchandise or present their companies.
Each concept counts, each concept could make a distinction!
