A deck describing Grycle project, that is a machinery to domestically treat waste, able to automatically transform undifferentiated garbage into grains of separated raw materials.

1. Turn waste into value, sustaining circular change

2. Waste of value, tough to be treated
Waste* is any substance or object which the holder
discards or intends or is required to discard
The domestic management and disposal of waste needs
differentiation, that can be disturbing, time consuming
and error prone
Waste is expensively transported and treated far away
from where it is generated, with great environmental
impact
Waste is a huge loss of resources and value in the form
of both materials and energy
* Directive 2008/98/EC Article 3(1)
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3. There are industrial solu8ons, but
LIMITS OF INDUSTRIAL
TREATMENT OF WASTE
high energy consumption
huge cost of deployment, affordable
only for enterprise customers
(e.g. big municipalities)
sequenced selection of raw materials to
be separated
huge size of plants
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4. Let’s treat waste close to where it is generated!
Our invention is a mechatronic machinery (patented in Italy, applied for PCT), associable
with domestic appliance, capable of replacing the human work in the preparation of the
waste in their path towards recycling
Waste is automatically transformed into grains of separated and valuable raw
materials
No need to differentiate for humans
Great reduction in garbage volume
Through a treatment process that inverts waste processing of the recycling chain in
industrial plants
volume Reduction and Movement
washing and sterilization
identification
separation
Three different technologies have been taken into consideration for the material recognition
recognition of weight and volume, from which we get the specific weight and therefore
the type of material
image of the molecular structure
infrared sensors
See VIDEO!!!
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5. Roadmap: from R&D to industrializa8on
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2015 2017
Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2016
Q1 Q2 Q3
2018
Q4
2015 first
project and
prototype
(bootstrap)
2016 second
prototype
(bootstrap)
2017 third prototype, incorporated,
request of patent, partnered with
Corner Stones
(funded, early stage)
2018 expected: end of
prototyping (first industrial
product), need for new
partners to industrialize
product
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6. Figures of R&D phase
Grycle’s waste management
system is close to the third
release of its R&D phase, that
of a full functioning machinery.
The potential commercial
applications of this technology
are various. Such potential has
been confirmed by the interest
of Corner Stones, that is
funding the conclusion of the
prototyping phase (expected
by Q1, 2019).
The next, forthcoming phase,
is going be that of
industrializing the product.
Such phase will need to
collaborate with further
industrial and funding partners.
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Team and Partner
Daniele Pes
Computer Science Engineer, Politecnico di
Milano
ExecuFve MBA, MIP Business School
Head of Innova8on and Digital Transforma8on
at Altromercato
R&D, AF&C, HC, Strategy, Innova8on,
Marke8ng for Honeywell, Fastweb (Swisscom
Group), Axess TMC (Zucche` Group)
Board Member of InnoVits (former President)
Co-Founder at Ilooxs Tech
Corner Stones is an investment vehicle focused on
scou8ng technological, design and commercial
innova8on and developing to industrial level.
Corner Stones focuses its funding, R&D, legal,
commercial, logis8c competence exclusively on high
poten8al projects. Its approach is designed to create
tailor made business assets and rela8ons to foster the
concrete transforma8on of innova8ve ideas into
valuable business.
Grycle’s waste management technology has been
one of the first investment made by Corner
Stonespe
This R&D stage project has been valued because
of the innova8ve technology (patent owned by
Grycle) and the robustness of the team of
founders, that has progressively integrated by
mechanical and electrical engineers
Edoardo Carlucci
Master of Science in Management of the Built
Environment, Politecnico di Milano
Bachelor of Science in Engineering
Management, Politecnico di Milano
November 2015 - Co-founder of HYPERWATER
srl (business in the green hydrothermal
oxida8on technology for the destruc8on of
organic waste)
Second Level Master called ‘Start-up Program’.
at the management training program PEGASO,
MIP Business School

8. grycle.srl@gmail.com

9. A side effect of growth
In EU-28 construction contributes
34.7 % of the total
Mining and quarrying (28.2 %),
manufacturing (10.2 %), waste and
water services (9.1 %) and
households (8.3 %)
The remaining 9.5 % was waste
generated from other economic
activities, mainly services (3.9 %) and
energy (3.7 %)
hgp://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta8s8cs-explained/index.php/Waste_sta8s8cs
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10. Tough to be treated
40.7%
6.7%
1.5%
4.7%
10.2%
36.2%
Treatment of waste by waste category,
hazardousness and waste operations
Deposit onto or into land
Land treatment and release into water bodies
IncineraFon / disposal (D10)
IncineraFon / energy recovery (R1)
Recovery other than energy recovery - backfilling
Recovery other than energy recovery - except backfilling
Yearly, some 2,320 million tonnes of waste
are treated in the EU-28
Nearly half (47.4 %) of the waste treated is
disposed of other than through incineration
(landfilling)
A further 36.2 % of the waste treated is
recycled
Just over one tenth (10.2 %) of the waste
treated is backfilled
The remainder is sent for incineration,
either with energy recovery (4.7 %) or
without (1.5 %)
hgp://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta8s8cs-explained/index.php/Waste_sta8s8cs
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