The start-up Tributerre launches a crowdfunding campaign to industrialize the connected tool that will encourage citizens to compost.
The know-how of composting has been lost. As soils degrade due to a lack of organic matter return and where 30% of French garbage consists of organic waste most often destined for landfill and incineration, a massive return to this natural technique to transform waste into compost is becoming an obvious solution for preserving the environment and resources.
This observation is at the heart of Tributerre’s service offering. To revive the practice of composting by citizens themselves, this French start-up is preparing to launch a connected tool (the compost meter) and an online community to learn how to create quality amendments from organic materials such as peelings, kitchen scraps, green waste, bouquets, paper towels…
The young company, which went through the Antropia Essec incubator and has received several prestigious awards, will rely on crowdfunding from June 13 to July 13 on the Ulule platform to raise the last few thousand euros needed to reach the industrialization phase.
The solution proposed by Tributerre is particularly timely as it will be necessary to remove organic waste from bins by 2025, as stipulated by the Energy Transition Law for a Green Growth (LTECV). It is also very relevant, as local composting solutions have shown their limits due to the difficulty in engaging and following up with groups of participants, as highlighted by ADEME.
Tributerre primarily collaborates with local authorities to engage as many residents as possible in the practice of composting. The SMITOM of Nord Seine-et-Marne (inter-municipal union in charge of the treatment and recovery of household waste from the 167 member municipalities in the north of the department) and the SMICVAL (Mixed Intermunicipal Syndicate for the Collection and Recovery of Libournais Haute-Gironde) are two pioneering local authorities, with others currently in discussions in the Hauts-de-France, Brittany, Normandy, Île-de-France, and the Occitanie region.
Tributerre’s ambition is for every willing household in these territories to be equipped with a compost meter to ensure quality soil return of their waste/food resources.
With its 2500 local authorities, the national market is immense. The supply of organic waste is too.
Today, it is estimated that there are 8 million tons of organic waste in French bins every year.
The compost meter: a connected tool… to the earth.
The compost meter is an innovation from Tributerre to assist everyone in the practice of composting with food and garden waste.
Thanks to its sensors, this probe, shaped like a long stick, is capable of monitoring the maturity of compost and providing advice to produce high-quality homemade compost.
According to a study by Tributerre, 72% of non-practitioners would be willing to commit to composting if the tool were made available by the local authority.
A young start-up, many awards.
Tributerre was notably a winner of the competition for innovative start-ups at the Île-de-France mayors’ fair and the CréEnSo award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2017. In 2016, this young company was recognized by the Réseau Entreprendre Seine-et-Marne, the Descartes Incubator, and the Ministry of Environment as part of the Young Shoots GreenTechVerte project call for projects, in the circular economy category.
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