Waste is currently transported long distances and treated in large, expensive industrial plants, which is inefficient and environmentally damaging. The invention is a mechatronic machine that can automatically separate and sort waste into raw materials at the household level, greatly reducing volume and environmental impact. It uses various sensing technologies to identify materials and separate them without human sorting. This decentralized approach could make waste treatment more sustainable and affordable.

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 (notes)
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. Industrial solution
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 (patent pending), 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 industrialization
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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. 6
Team and Partner
Daniele Pes
Computer Science Engineer, Politecnico di
Milano
Executive MBA, MIP Business School
Head of Innovation and Digital Transformation
at Altromercato
R&D, AF&C, HC, Strategy, Innovation, Marketing
for Honeywell, Fastweb (Swisscom Group),
Axess TMC (Zucchetti Group)
Board Member of InnoVits (former President)
Co-Founder at Ilooxs Tech
Corner Stones is an investment vehicle focused on
scouting technological, design and commercial
innovation and developing to industrial level.
Corner Stones focuses its funding, R&D, legal,
commercial, logistic competence exclusively on high
potential projects. Its approach is designed to create
tailor made business assets and relations to foster the
concrete transformation of innovative ideas into
valuable business.
Grycle’s waste management technology has been
one of the first investment made by Corner
Stones
This R&D stage project has been valued because
of the innovative technology (patent pending,
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
oxidation technology for the destruction of
organic waste)
Second Level Master called ‘Start-up Program’.
at the management training program PEGASO,
MIP Business School

7. grycle.srl@gmail.com

8. 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 %)
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Waste_statistics
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9. 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
Incineration / disposal (D10)
Incineration / 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 %)
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Waste_statistics
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