{"id":375072,"date":"2022-05-20T14:47:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=375072"},"modified":"2022-05-20T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:47:28","slug":"core-wins-rabo-sustainable-innovation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/core-wins-rabo-sustainable-innovation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"CORE wins Rabo Sustainable Innovation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CORE <\/a>– a student team from the Eindhoven University of Technology<\/a>– won the 2022 edition of the Rabo Sustainable Innovation Award<\/a>. The organization developed a way to safely recycle batteries without any risk of fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rabo Sustainable Innovation Award is Rabobank\u2019s prize for innovative solutions. A total of 12 ideas made it to the final, divided into four categories: food transition<\/em>, vital communities and healthcare<\/em>, circular entrepreneurship<\/em>, and energy transition<\/em>. The Eindhoven group was shortlisted as one of the circular entrepreneurship concepts. Winners receive \u20ac20,000 to further develop their concept and get a chance to participate in an accelerator program run by Yes!Delft<\/a>.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CORE Titan is a fully functioning shredder that chops up batteries in saltwater. Any risk of fire is prevented this way. The hazardous substances inside power cells are the reason behind waste fires, which release those chemicals that people can inhale. As the amount of batteries increases, risk-free methods to process them are increasingly needed. <\/p>\n\n\n

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CORE turns waste from energy companies into garden tiles and railway ballast<\/div>
“This furnace is an important step towards the plant that CORE ultimately intends to build.”<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe we made it!\u201d the slightly overcome by emotion Dirk van Meer (CEO of CORE) told Innovation Origins. \u201cThis prize is one of the best places in the Netherlands to showcase an innovative idea, and we won. It\u2019s a huge achievement for a student team. We competed against large companies with much bigger budgets that can test their technologies in larger-sized facilities than ours.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team wants to build not only a shredder, but also a factory where new products can be safely made out of ash. To this end, they previously unveiled a smelting furnace that showed how new objects can be made from waste.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doing it for a good cause<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

MaGieCreations and OneThird were CORE\u2019s competitors in the circular entrepreneurship category. According to van Meer, being a student team was key to winning the award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The fact that we are doing this purely for the impact it can have on the planet. That’s what the jury also found. We’re addressing a major issue, not just for the sake of making a profit.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Team CORE uses shredder to safely chop up batteries in salt water<\/div>
We are using batteries more and more. In our own home, we use an average of 113 per year. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

Further innovation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no time to rest on our laurels for CORE. \u201cOn the 8th and on the 9th of June we will be presenting our new project, Temnos<\/em>. It involves detecting batteries in electronic devices with the help of AI. We will also be scaling Titan up next year,” Van Meer says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CORE\u2019s CEO has a word of advice for future innovators working on their ideas \u201cSurround yourself with all the market parties that are involved. Understanding the market we wanted to operate in is also one of the keys to our success here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CORE – a student team from the Eindhoven University of Technology– won the 2022 edition of the Rabo Sustainable Innovation Award. The organization developed a way to safely recycle batteries without any risk of fire.  The Rabo Sustainable Innovation Award is Rabobank\u2019s prize for innovative solutions. A total of 12 ideas made it to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2084,"featured_media":516062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[65494,70822,46675,11641,2519],"location":[6763],"article_type":[36684],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-375072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-core-chemistry","tag-rabo-sustainable-innovation-award","tag-rabobank-en","tag-recycling-en","tag-tue-en","location-netherlands","article_type-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"Eindhoven's student team won with its safe battery shredder that prevents fires from breaking out.","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Mauro Mereu","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/mauro-mereu\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Team_photo_teamCORE.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Sustainability<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Sustainability<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["CORE Chemistry<\/a>","Rabo Sustainable Innovation Award<\/a>","Rabobank<\/a>","recycling<\/a>","TU\/e<\/a>"],"unlinked":["CORE Chemistry<\/span>","Rabo Sustainable Innovation Award<\/span>","Rabobank<\/span>","recycling<\/span>","TU\/e<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on May 20, 2022","modified":"Updated on May 20, 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on May 20, 2022 2:47 pm","modified":"Updated on May 20, 2022 2:47 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2084"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375072"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=375072"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=375072"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=375072"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=375072"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=375072"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=375072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}