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Title of the submitted project/idea
Closka. Premium Bio-packaging solutions
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Title of the submitted project/idea (English)
Closka. Premium Bio-packaging solutions
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URL of a video introducing the submitted project or idea (5 minutes or less)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z73a0bdwdr61lu8/AADZjYkSLxXZNCdk2BDtifvza?dl=0
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Brief concept description of the submitted project/idea
ClosKa promotes circular production by developing new packaging solutions made from biomaterials from organic waste. ClosKa’s specific objective is to create non-disposable containers and packaging premium that can be reused or adapted to a new function in order to extend the product’s useful lifetime.
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Brief concept description of the submitted project/idea (English)
ClosKa promotes circular production by developing new packaging solutions made from biomaterials from organic waste. ClosKa’s specific objective is to create non-disposable containers and packaging premium that can be reused or adapted to a new function in order to extend the product’s useful lifetime.
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Detailed description of the submitted project/idea
ClosKa is a Naifactory LAB project that arises from our collaboration in the Remix El Barrio collective at the Fab Lab in Barcelona, in which we have been experimenting with the creation of a circular network of collaborators, designers and actors from the Poblenou neighborhood to transform local organic waste into product design.
In this experience we obtained tools and learned methodologies to later create the Closka project focused on the Packaging sector.
WHY
Packaging is a big issue since they usually have a single use, it is usually a very short use in time because we remove it and immediately throw it away. It is usually made with polluting materials and its production is massive and growing and without great recycling and reuse solutions.
WHAT
And what we are looking for are solutions that provide various uses to this packaging, uses that can have continuity over time because they have a second function, and of course packagings made with renewable and sustainable materials being produced in circular ways, that is to say that they can be reused or recycled.
What if we could take dried fruit shells and apply R + D + I to create new materials with which to be able to design those packagings that we need to fulfill a function or even to be able to create objects with further functions.
Let’s analyze a specific case: the almond shells. This waste that remains from the almond industry could become the source to create a new biomaterial to be transformed into almond packagings or even other objects…in this way we would give total circularity to a waste that was previously discarded coming back to it’s original function in a innovative way.
And this same strategy could applied to many other residues such as the avocado pit, or the date pit, apricot’s as well, or the hazelnut shell… Imagine how many possibilities around the world.
In a first stage, the Closka project focuses on the premium packaging market due to a matter of competitiveness and because it is a market in which brands continually need to innovate and differentiate themselves. In addition, premium products are intended for a public that is willing to pay the value of this innovation and the economic margin is higher, making it more viable.
Subsequently, as the project increases its impact and the production processes can be industrialized, it will be possible to enter more competitive markets, thus increasing the impact of the project.
HOW
Closka is to be understood as a network where there are a series of agents that can participate and can add value to the work chain, from waste producers to designers as well as social labour that can help producing the solutions that will be implemented in the market.
All of them are fundamental to define a methodology that can make viable the transition from laboratory manufacturing to handmade production and finally industrialization thus being able to compete in markets that are unattainable due to price.
The business model consists of defining and applying this methodology to different regions with different local waste around the globe thus help in the transition to a circular economy worldwide. -
Detailed description of the submitted project/idea (English)
ClosKa is a Naifactory LAB project that arises from our collaboration in the Remix El Barrio collective at the Fab Lab in Barcelona, in which we have been experimenting with the creation of a circular network of collaborators, designers and actors from the Poblenou neighborhood to transform local organic waste into product design.
In this experience we obtained tools and learned methodologies to later create the Closka project focused on the Packaging sector.
WHY
Packaging is a big issue since they usually have a single use, it is usually a very short use in time because we remove it and immediately throw it away. It is usually made with polluting materials and its production is massive and growing and without great recycling and reuse solutions.
WHAT
And what we are looking for are solutions that provide various uses to this packaging, uses that can have continuity over time because they have a second function, and of course packagings made with renewable and sustainable materials being produced in circular ways, that is to say that they can be reused or recycled.
What if we could take dried fruit shells and apply R + D + I to create new materials with which to be able to design those packagings that we need to fulfill a function or even to be able to create objects with further functions.
Let’s analyze a specific case: the almond shells. This waste that remains from the almond industry could become the source to create a new biomaterial to be transformed into almond packagings or even other objects…in this way we would give total circularity to a waste that was previously discarded coming back to it’s original function in a innovative way.
And this same strategy could applied to many other residues such as the avocado pit, or the date pit, apricot’s as well, or the hazelnut shell… Imagine how many possibilities around the world.
In a first stage, the Closka project focuses on the premium packaging market due to a matter of competitiveness and because it is a market in which brands continually need to innovate and differentiate themselves. In addition, premium products are intended for a public that is willing to pay the value of this innovation and the economic margin is higher, making it more viable.
Subsequently, as the project increases its impact and the production processes can be industrialized, it will be possible to enter more competitive markets, thus increasing the impact of the project.
HOW
Closka is to be understood as a network where there are a series of agents that can participate and can add value to the work chain, from waste producers to designers as well as social labour that can help producing the solutions that will be implemented in the market.
All of them are fundamental to define a methodology that can make viable the transition from laboratory manufacturing to handmade production and finally industrialization thus being able to compete in markets that are unattainable due to price.
The business model consists of defining and applying this methodology to different regions with different local waste around the globe thus help in the transition to a circular economy worldwide. -
URL of your project / idea
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