Idea Summary: Lowhub zero carbon logistics, based in London's markets, consolidating deliveries, reducing vehicle movements and lowering emissions. A sustainable food delivery network powered by renewable energy from on-site micro renewables, linking farmers, growers, wholesaler and caterers to deliver local, seasonal, healthy food without harming the environment.
Idea Submission:
Lowhub is an environmentally friendly fresh produce delivery company, aiming to deliver a sustainable food network for London.
By creating a network of hubs, centred on London's wholesale markets, and in outlying counties, delivery of food and produce can be made as efficiently as possible. Producers must be able to get food to the consumer quickly and efficiently, whether direct or through wholesalers and caterers.
Vehicle movements must be consolidated, decreasing congestion and lowering emissions. Lowhub drives consolidation through innovative pricing structures, incentivising cooperation and rewarding full loads and efficient delivery models. Consolidated deliveries must then be made using vehicles powered by renewable energy, providing a potentially carbon neutral delivery network.
Lowhub and sister company 383ppm (both part of the Chi Group) will build an integrated network of re-charging facilities through the application of various micro-renewable technologies. Different sites will be better suited to different solutions due to factors such as environment, location, size etc. Technologies are likely to include Solar Photovoltaics, Wind Turbines and Anaerobic Digestion (AD). The latter will pose the opportunity to utilise market waste and food waste from the Olympic site and legacy facilities, creating valuable carbon neutral autogas to run a fleet of delivery vehicles. Where electricity is being generated the vehicles will be electricity powered.
This service will provide a sustainable logistics network for London, decreasing congestion and reducing emissions. The carbon neutral delivery fleet will be insulated from the vagaries of oil prices and fossil fuel generated power, providing a cost effective means of food and produce delivery at a time of food inflation and rising household bills. The creation of a network of clean energy, renewable powered charging stations, will provide a green stimulus to others promoting the take up of green technology and low carbon practices.
Idea Summary: 1. Develop use of advanced barcodes to track produce from producer/supplier to operator to waste manager. 2. Use Naviblog technology to visualise and manage progress and issues from any mobile phone or PC.
Idea Submission:
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1. Develop use of advanced barcodes to track produce from producer/supplier to operator to waste manager.
Use of RFID requires high costs of investment in chips, specialised support technology and reader/writers.
Use of advanced black-and-white barcodes require an investment in a central software based on open-source code, which can then use common mobile phones as readers and common printers as writers.
Provided that the printing is done at the producer/supplier and directly on printer-friendly eco-packaging and not as a label on the wrapping, it can be tracked at key points along the supply chain, even once contents have been consumed, and to the waste manager/processor.
2. Use MKInnovation technology to visualise and manage progress and issues from any mobile phone or PC.
MKInnovation technology brings together mobile maps and contextual information that can be viewed as a heatmap on any mobile phone: any field worker can check the progress either of an individual product from a supplier or track overall flow performance of food deliveries (or other KPIs).
Updates are made at key points along the supply chain and updated centrally, available for all to see.
The technology requires no download and works over the Internet, so can be accessed from any Internet-enabled mobile phone.
The technology uses open-source online mobile maps, that are accessed on-demand, so fixed infrastructure and licensing costs are drastically reduced.
Permissions can be pre-defined so that only certain permissions (such as reroutes, alerts and supplier contact details etc) are allotted to certain power users, and not to others, introducing systemic information security, as well as reducing information clutter for time-starved field workers or operatives.
All this can be visualised and managed on any mobile or any PC, through the Internet browser.
Contact
Mandali Khalesi Founder & CEO MKInnovation Group web: www.mkinnovation.com email: mandali@mkinnovation.com phone/text: +44(0)7867848684
Idea Summary: London Bio Packaging can provide a closed loop composting system for foodservice and catering outlets. We supply compostable packaging and then a collection and composting service.
Idea Submission:
London Bio Packaging (LBP) supplies closed loop composting for foodservice and catering outlets. LBP provides packaging made from renewable resources, with a low carbon footprint, which is compostable. LBP installs bins and information for the users to put compostable packaging and food waste in. LBP arranges the collection of waste by registered carrier and composting at a local commercial composting facility. The end product is compost which can be spread on local fields to nourish the land and grow more plants. This is a closed loop, zero waste management system.
Idea Summary: TPG can manage the development and/or focus packaging materials, structures, forms, processes etc to ensure minimal environmental impact.
Idea Submission:
We propose a Packaging Guidelines Manual - as a download from Web Packaging Specifics - for companies to submit their packaging prior to approval for Packaging Help/Design - additional specific direction for pack designs Packaging Approval - process to co-ordinate Packaging Design, material content, carbon balances etc on behalf of 2012.
Contact
Stephen Mills
TPG Packaging Consultants Ltd +44(0)208 469 1520 office London +44(0)7740 630063 mobile www.tpgint.com
