SEATTLE (Waste Advantage): Four teams took home their shares of $28,000 in funding at the Second Annual NextCycle Washington Pitch Showcase, featuring proposed projects designed to reduce waste in Washington. The Sept. 23rd event, hosted at the Seattle Central Library, attracted nearly 100 attendees and 13 competing teams pitching their projects that advance sustainable materials management and support circular economy development.
NextCycle Washington is an accelerator-style program funded by Ecology and focused on waste prevention, material reuse and recycling initiatives. The awards taken home by winners were funded by program partners. All participating teams receive six months of business and technical coaching to prepare them for a culminating Showcase and the opportunity to pitch their ideas to an audience of business, recycling, investment, and community leaders.
Competing teams were divided into three pitch groups: launch, innovation, and community, and focused on projects to prevent waste, repair and reuse broken and outdated products, and remanufacture recycled materials into new products. The launch groups presented project proposals that were beyond the idea concept stage and demonstrated a product prototype or concept pilot. However, their projects are still at the team, operations, or production building stages. The innovation group included existing businesses and projects being developed or ones that used new and innovative technologies or processes. Finally, the community group included organizations with a positive impact on communities, such as job and community partnership development.
The winners were:
Courtesy: www.wasteadvantage.com
Copper Scrap View All | |
Alternator | 0.37 (0) |
#1 Copper Bare Bright | 3.96 (0.01) |
Aluminum Scrap View All | |
356 Aluminum Wheels (Clean) | 0.74 (0) |
6061 Extrusions | 0.64 (0) |
Steel Scrap View All | |
#1 Bundle | 360.00 (0) |
#1 Busheling | 380.00 (0) |
Electronics Scrap View All |