With our bio-bag dispenser, Copenhageners have easier access to garbage bags to easily sort their food waste.
The City of Copenhagen wants to collect as much food waste from citizens as possible so that it can be turned into biogas for electricity, heating, and gas. With our bio-bag dispenser, distributing bags for food waste has become easier for both citizens and the municipality.
Why?
Studies show that convenience is the key to enabling more citizens to sort food waste. For that reason, the municipality has long distributed free bio-bags to citizens. But most people had to collect the bags from their local libraries.
This didn’t work optimally – so now, together with the municipality, we have developed a different and more local solution: the bio-dispenser.
The bags should be available in a dispenser in any backyard in Copenhagen. And they couldn’t find anything on the market that worked optimally. So, alongside the Municipality of Copenhagen, we set out to develop our own solution, and the requirements were actually quite simple. It had to be easy to fill and use. It had to keep the bags dry. And it had to be produced and distributed efficiently – with the lowest possible carbon footprint.
Impact:
The dispenser is not a ground-breaking innovation, and the concept itself was quickly in place. However, the project’s complexity came from selecting the right material, adjusting the material volume, and preparing the production process for scale.
Fortunately, the volume made it possible to injection mould the cover, which is made in one component with embedded functionalities such as climate shield, open/close, holding bags in place, lock, and surface for information and identity.
…Of course, produced in a recycled materials.
