15 Startups Trying to Provide Solutions for the Environment

Environmental issues have recently been widely discussed by various groups. This is because climate change has had a real negative impact on life --- starting from crop failure due to prolonged bad weather to flora and fauna that have lost their habitat.

Seeing the existing problems, a number of local innovators tried to come up with new ways that could help the community participate to reduce potential issues due to climate change. One of them, these startups are here to help the community to be able to know the condition of the air health in the surrounding area and provide alternative energy that is environmentally friendly.

Here are some local startup innovations related to climate change that are worth knowing about.

BLUE

BLUE (Cross-Economic Business Development) is one of the startups in the field of renewable energy founded in 2018 by Abu Bakar Abdul Karim Almukmin.

BLUE provides a one-stop solution for renewable energy goods and services through the marketplace Energy Shop. In addition, BLUE is also developing B2B solar energy solutions for commercial, industrial and centralized solar energy systems for urban and rural areas in Indonesia.

BLUE's own funding debut came from New Energy Nexus which has funded 16 climate change and renewable energy startups.

BuMoon.io

One of the startups social which is engaged in the field of IoT (Internet of Things), Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence, namely BuMoon.io have a project also to overcome climate change via token crypto.

BuMoon.io itself was founded in 2021 by Dian Agustian Hadi and Adya Kemara. In addition to climate change, BuMoon.io also tackles existing plastic waste. This can be used as one of the good things to follow.

The concept of BuMoon.io is very unique in that they apply "Eco Living Token", users can deposit trash into BuMonn.io after that we will get benefits (money, tokens, and the like). This business model is carried out periodically.

Not only Eco Living Token, BuMoon.io has a project for installing solar panels taken from data carbon trading, so that it becomes one of the program transactions that is quite interesting.

Carbon Addons

This startup was founded in August 2020. Carbon Addons present solutions to drive the impact of waste and startups to offset carbon emissions from every purchase such as products online and transportation tickets via add-on before checking the product.

These Carbon Addons allow users to offset the carbon footprint of their product/service purchases by adding additional carbon funds before checkout through Plugin software applications that can be integrated with platforms such as E-commerce.

Carboon Addons itself was founded by Mohamad Naufal. With the Carboon Addons itself, Mohama Naufal is sure that we can minimize the damage to the existing environment so that we can enjoy the beauty of nature, especially in Indonesia.

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One of the startups with waste management system safe is money. Duitin is a movement to sort, collect, and manage waste in order to get a 'second life' through the recycling process.

So Duitin, a waste collection startup, especially inorganic waste. Moreover, the campaign for inorganic waste collection – including waste sorting – continues to this day.

Startups waste management this one was founded by four founder namely Agy (CEO), Adjiyo Prakoso (COO), Astriani L (CFO), and Danni Fajariadi (CMO) who will certainly help the Indonesian people in managing waste properly using the integrated Mobile Application, namely Duitin.

Gringo

One of the startups waste management in Bali can be one of the companies that can have an impact on the environment. Gringo was founded by Oliver Pouillon (CEO) and Febriadi Pratama (CTO) in 2014.

The way Gringgo works is to facilitate waste management by using a website based application that is integrated with each other. This is so that users can transport their waste through the Gringgo application. However, this waste transportation has a purpose, namely Gringgo wants to build a network service for waste collection.

Surely this can be a good thing for waste banks and waste collectors so that they can be put to good use.

In 2019, Gringgo himself get funding around $500.000 from Google to expand its business to several cities such as Jakarta and Bali of course.

Greenku.com

Greenku.com is a green portal that provides up-to-date information about a green and healthy lifestyle. Startup climate change this one contains content ideas for greening shared using a Creative Commons license to educate people and further go green in their businesses and everyday lives.

In addition, Hijauku.id is one of the startups that can be used to determine carbon emissions in the surrounding area. Hijauku itself was founded in March 2011 and was founded by Hezbollah Arief. 

In addition to carbon emissions, Hijauku.com also predicts changes in weather and climate in Indonesia. This is to find out a good basic picture for you to use in your daily life and activities.

Jangjo

Jangjo is a new startup in Indonesia. This startup wants to create a synergistic ecosystem that can integrate every stakeholder involved in waste management. Starting from households, scavengers, operator companies to industry.

Stakeholder These include, among others, waste producers (community), waste transporters (operators), temporary shelters (hub), and waste management (industry).

To overcome the problems above, he said, Jangjo developed the main solution, namely education on sorting and transporting sorted waste for the Jakarta area. Residents who are educated in sorting waste can use waste transportation services to be recycled by the industry

Garbage sorting education is conducted door to door for residential areas. Then, Jangjo Rangers will record the garbage data that has been sorted through the application.

This waste management platform was founded by 4 Co-Founders Joe Hansen (Co-founder and Commissioner), Nyoman Kwanhok (Co-founder and CEO), Eki Setijadi (COO), and Hendra Yubianto (CMO) in 2019.

This waste management startup received seed funding from Darmawan Capital with an undisclosed amount. With this investment, Jangjo will expand his business and modernize his application.

trail.in

trail.in is one of the startups climate change that uses IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) technologies. This startup was originally in the form of FMCG which was founded by Arfan Alandra in 2018.

Jejak.in has a mission to initiate climate action through AI and IoT-based solutions. One of their flagship products is the Tree and Carbon Storage Monitoring Platform, a platform that utilizes mobile technology, drones, IoT sensors, LiDAR, and satellites to collect and analyze environmental ecological data. 

Jejak.in is very good to be put to good use because with this application the public is able to know the development of climate change and carbon emissions in real time.

In addition, there are other features that serve to measure the impact of carbon sequestration, air infiltration, soil and air conditions, and biodiversity.

Breath

Founded by Ex-CMO Gojek Piotr Jakubowski and Zulu Nathan Roestandy in 2018. Startup climate change this one has a difference compared to other climate change startups. Breath can present climatic conditions and situations as well as precise carbon emission levels in real time and the accuracy is very precise.

Nafas has installed 46 sensors spread across Jabodetabek. Their sensors can update air quality data every 20 minutes. The data presented in the breath application are Air Quality Index (AQI) and Particulate Matter (PM) 2,5 levels. They also now sell air purifier products Aria.

OCTOPUS

Octopus is an aggregator platform that can be utilized by related industries to obtain recycling trash of scavengers and collectors. This service has started its operations in tier 2 and 3 cities.

Octopus was founded in 2020 by Dimas Ario Rubianto, Hamish Daud Wyllie, Niko Adi Nugroho, Moehammad Ichsan. Octopus has also served nearly 200 thousand users spread across five major cities in Indonesia, namely Jakarta, South Tangerang, Bandung, Bali and Makassar. OCTOPUS has also worked with more than 1.700 waste banks and 14.600 trained and verified scavengers (they call them "sustainers").

Currently Octopus has deepened its business focus to develop this. One of them is to book initial funding from Openspace Ventures.

Plumelabs

Plume Labs, a startup dedicated to measuring air quality, recently launched the paid Plume.io API that allows anyone to add air quality to their API buyer service. Previously Plume Labs had developed a mobile application and air quality meter.

Plume Labs itself was founded by Romain Lacombe in 2021. Certainly Plume Labs will present a climate change startup that is different from the others. 

Recosystem

This Zero Waste Management startup was founded in 2018 by Ernest Layman and Joshua Valentin. Recosystem itself grows and develops into a leading and the latest Zero Waste Management company.

The products and services of this ecosystem are quite extensive, the business model is very broad in B2B and B2C and the services and products of this ecosystem are comprehensive, such as education on waste management, sending and receiving waste for easy processing and renewable energy such as biogas and so on.

The main products offered by Rekosistem include Pickup Service (Repickup Service) and Garbage Deposit to the Trash (Redrop Service). Pick-up services include waste collection and pick-up services for households or housing, businesses, offices, schools, public facilities, sports facilities, and commercial places.

Rekosistem also received funding from the Bali Investment Club and established a strategic partnership with Marubeni. This is used to expand the business into a wider realm.

Sampang

One of the next waste management startups is Sampang. This startup was founded by Muhammad Fauzal Rizki (CEO) with Hana Punawarman (CPO) in 2019. This startup helps collectors to manage waste to be more useful.

This SamPangan has a magic box, namely Carbonized Technology for processing waste into something valuable, namely changing waste into carbon on a regular basis.

Carbonized Technology is a combination of Pyrolis and Gasification processes. It is the process of breaking down matter using radiant heat in the absence of oxygen (so there is no combustion and no pollution).

The Magic Box operates at 100-400 degrees centigrade compared to 700 and 1200 degrees centigrade for traditional processing, respectively. Energy sources are waste inputs whose potential energy is converted into heat energy in the process.

In simple terms the concept is similar to a rice cooker or oven. No fire. Only heat radiation. Waste enters, activated carbon + other organic and safe products exit.

So indirectly Sampang can also affect and improve air quality through burning garbage and waste.

Waste4Change

Waste4Change is a responsible waste management company founded by Mohamad Bijaksana Junerosano in 2014 in Bekasi, West Java.

Waste4Change provides waste management solutions from upstream to downstream consisting of 4 channels, namely: Consultation: Research and studies related to waste Campaign: Capacity building, education, and assistance Collect: Daily waste transportation and processing for zero waste to landfill Create: Waste recycling and the EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) program.

To date, Waste4Change has managed to manage 5.400 tons of waste and reduce 52% of the waste that ends up in the TPA. Currently, Waste4Change's waste management services cover the areas of Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi, Surabaya, Sidoarjo, Semarang, Bandung, and Medan.

zero waste

Zero Waste Indonesia (ZWID) is community based online which was founded in 2018 by Maurilla Imron and Kirana Agustina with the aim of inviting Indonesians to live a lifestyle zero waste. Zero Waste Lifestyle is a lifestyle to minimize the production of waste generated from each individual that will end up in the Final Disposal Site (TPA) in an effort to preserve the environment.

ZWID plays an active role in continuing to spread awareness of the application of wise thinking in waste management by implementing 6R (Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot) by providing useful zero waste style tips and information on waste management issues. and its relation to environmental sustainability.

Carrying the vision as one-stop-solution platform and information on a minimal waste lifestyle in the archipelago, ZWID is also a gathering place for individuals, environmental activists, communities, and all parties who care about environmental sustainability.