Achieving Zero Food Waste from Home for Green Life
HomeCycle
About
Mission
We’re Creating the Cycle from Home to Achieve Zero Food Waste for Green Life
“HomeCycle” is a new concept to urban life where food waste is generated and thrown out by households. Our solution will change the aboved behavior and practice to separate and recycle at home that significantly contributes to achieve Zero Food Waste. The compost substrates from Home will be used for growing organic vegetables for green life.
Why “Zero Food Waste” for Green Life?
- **Environmental Impact**: Food waste contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, primarily methane, which is released when organic waste decomposes in landfills. Zero food waste helps lower these emissions, underground water pollutions, air pollution and mitigates climate change.
- **Resource Conservation**: Food waste sorting and treatment requires significant resources, including human resource, facilities investment, water, energy and land. By achieving zero food waste, we can save these resources more effectively.
- **Economic Benefits**: Zero food waste can lead to cost savings of waste management for households, businesses, and governments.
- **Supporting Sustainable Practices**: Zero food waste encourages sustainable food consumption practices, such as composting, recycling.
The Journey
- Stay-at-home requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic was the starting point of our journey. With 20 years in banking and epayment sector and implementation of many mass Products , Thắng Nguyễn - the team leader of HomeCycle had started growing vegetables on the family’s rooftop. He had learned and practiced the composting of food waste from Charles Dowding’s No Dig Gardening. He became an urban gardener armed with a passion of cycling the food waste for growing vegetables.
- With the support of a few close friends, the Startup Team was formed. We have a mission to expand mass the food cycle at home to achieve Zero Food Waste for Green Life.
- By 2024, HomeCycle evolves into a full-fledged company, attracting a talented team of leading experts in sectors of biotechnology, machinery automation, agriculture and environment who shared the same vision. HomeCycle is more than just a startup—it will be a community of millions of home gardeners, crop farmers, health-conscious and eco-conscious households who believe in the power of food cycle at home to achieve Zero Food Waste for Green Life.
Solution
Solution Concept
Solution Objectives
Solution Concept
- HomeCycle is the innovative concept that revolutionizes the traditional composting process. With the use of natural substrates (sawdust, rice husk bio charcoal, cocopeat..), neem powder, aerobic bacterials and composting fabric bags or plastic bins, food wastes are mixed with the aboved materials that absorb bad smell and waste water during the process with oxygen provided though the patented design.
The food waste inside will be decomposed by 85% after the Cycle time of 2 months. Then the organic substrates are produced that could be used as organic fertilizer for growing. - Our zero food waste solution is absolutely the best solution for food waste recycling at home and environmental protection.
Model Overview
Solution Objectives
Solution Concept
The model shows a circular system of composting and organic farming, linking households, compost centers, organic farms, and organic markets.
1. Households: Households separate organic waste, which is then collected and sent to compost centers. This step is feasible with community participation and an efficient collection system. Programs for organic waste separation can be implemented with proper education and support from local authorities or organizations.
2. Compost Centers: These centers process organic waste from households into compost. This step requires infrastructure for composting and might face challenges such as managing odors, ensuring high-quality compost, and preventing contamination. However, with established protocols and regular monitoring, this step is achievable.
3. Organic Farms: The compost produced is used in organic farming. This enhances soil fertility without chemical fertilizers, aligning with sustainable agricultural practices. The feasibility of this step depends on having nearby farms willing to adopt compost as a soil amendment, which is increasingly common in organic agriculture.
4. Organic Markets: Farms produce organic crops that are sold in markets. Selling these products in dedicated organic sections or markets can help consumers recognize the value of the circular system. This step is feasible if there’s demand for organic products and a market structure supporting organic farmers.
5. Back to Households: Households buy organic products, and the cycle repeats.
Our model requires coordinated efforts from multiple stakeholders, including households, waste management services, compost centers, farmers, and market infrastructure. Education on waste separation, subsidies or incentives for compost use in farming, and demand for organic products would all play a crucial role in making this circular model successful.
Solution Objectives
Solution Objectives
Zero Food Waste Solution
- HomeCycle provides a sustainable household solution for sorting and composting food waste to achieve Zero Food Waste then contribution significantly to Net Zero target.
- Our product helps urban households to participate directly into circular economy via generating organic substrates or organic fertilizers to grow or exchange for organic vegetables through our Green Ecosystem.
- With low cost, ease of use and eco-friendly solution, HomeCycle will partner with environment companies, businesses and communities to produce and distribute to cover the mass market of 10 million urban households.
Zero Food Waste Solution
Zero Food Waste Solution
Zero Food Waste Solution
Once our solution is adopted widely then we would achieve Zero Food Waste and build Green Ecosystem at urban areas then rural areas , national or Asia region… The impact of zero food waste on society is profound and multifaceted, affecting many social aspects.
- Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Decomposing food waste in landfills produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Reducing food waste can significantly lower these emissions, helping mitigate climate change and contributes to Net Zero 2050 target.
- Waste Reduction: Less food waste means reduced pressure on landfill sites, which can extend their lifespan and reduce the need for new landfills.
- State Budget Saving: Reduce Government Expense for waste sorting and treatment facilities and reduce pressure for environment companies to classify, collect and process food waste.
- Soil Amendment: Produce Black Golden Compost/substrates for soil amendments to enrich the organic values to soil.
- Community Health: Access to organic food can improve overall community health and well-being, reducing the burden on healthcare systems.
- Education and Awareness: Zero food waste initiatives involve education campaigns that raise awareness about the importance of sustainable practices and responsible consumption, fostering a culture of sustainability in the community.
- Behavioral Change: Zero food waste initiatives encourage individuals and organizations to rethink their consumption habits, leading to more mindful and sustainable living.
- Community Engagement: Collaborative efforts to reduce food waste can strengthen community bonds and encourage collective action towards common environmental and social goals.
- Regulatory Frameworks: Successful zero food waste initiatives can drive the development of supportive policies and regulations that promote sustainability and resource conservation.
- Global Leadership: By adopting zero food waste practices, Vietnam can position as leaders in the global movement towards sustainability, setting an example for others to follow.
Overall,our solution adopted can lead to significant positive outcomes for society.
Advantages
Zero Food Waste Solution
Solution Impact
- HomeCycle is an eco-friendly cycling solution at home for processing kitchen waste into substrates or compost then used to grow or exchange organic vegetables.
- HomeCycle has smart design of aerobic composter for Home
- HomeCycle uses the most effective microbes enzymes, substrates, materials for fast composting food waste with no odors and leakages.
- Expert team: A team of experts with extensive experience in the field of biotechnology and Composting Technology
- Low Cost: Our solution has shown to offer only 3% of price compared to other home composting solution. Every urban families can buy HomeCycle to replace the food waste trash bin. Then they do not have to pay food waste fee/charge or utilities cost to treat garbage. The solution
- Ease of use: users do not need knowledge, experience and skills of composting and gardening to use HomeCycle. With the guidance from the A4 paper of instructions , everyone can do composting easily and effectively and achieve “Zero Food Waste” for their families.
- Green Lifestyle : HomeCycle users can make compost efficiently after 3 months usage. Then they can use compost substrates as organic fertilizer to grow organic vegetables and fruit for heathy food. If not, they can exchange for vegetable from farmers in partnership with HomeCycle.
- Achievement and Recognition of Home Zero Food Waste and contribution to the Government Commitment to Net Zero 2050
Solution Impact
Zero Food Waste Solution
Solution Impact
1. Changing perception
We focus on changing perceptions to get more urban households excited and involved in reducing consumption and disposal in their daily lives. We will create solutions that enable this change in mindset that are easy to replicate, fit the local culture and are adaptable to Vietnam.
2. Going mass
Our product service system is affordable, effective, simple to use and directly reduces the waste at source & reduces waste ending up in landfills. Our customers will collectively keep tonnes of waste - both organic and other waste out of landfills. Our communication, products and workshops are all designed to get a simple daily act drive more recycling, help the informal sector, and pollute less - with no cost to the government.
We design to create a large impact through a large number of households doing the processing of food waste.
3. Contributing the ecosystem
We help complete the circular nutrition flow by feeding the mature compost back to soil. Composting and applying the compost to soil, contributes in a positive way to restoring soil quality and sequestering carbon in soils. Application of compost ( organic matter) can lead either to a build-up of soil organic carbon over time, or a reduction in the rate at which organic matter is depleted from soils. In either case, the overall quantity of organic matter in soils becomes higher than if no organic fertiliser was used.
Over time, increasing organic matter in soils also has other greenhouse gas-saving effects, such as better water retention of soil, less production and use of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, and reduced release of nitrous oxide - a potent greenhouse gas.
Products
HomeCycle BIN L36
HomeCycle BIN L36
HomeCycle BIN L36
Brand: HomeCycle
- Nonwoven felt fabric Inner : 36 Liters ( 30x30x40 centimeters)
- Bamboo Outer: 35x35x50 Centimeters
- Shape: Rectangular
* FEATURES: Consists of a Fabric Bag (36L) and outer bin& A harvesting Inner with separate leakage collection unit integrated. No foul smell.
* PROCESS: Just fill and add food waste in the BIN then stir with bio substrates inside.
* SUITABLE FOR: Ideal for Family of 5-6 members, converting kitchen waste (up to 0.8 kg per day) into compost in 9 weeks.
* DESIGN: Light weight unit, easy to move around if needed. Fits into a tight space and can be kept outdoors open to the elements.
* CAPACITY: Can take in 0.8 kgs of food waste per day.
* KIT: each CycleBIN comes with accessories: 24 lit carbon Substrates , 30gm Microbes Powder, 30gm Neem Powder, a pair of Gloves, Instruction sheet, One Rake, one Scoop, one Bowl for Leachate
HomeCycle BIN L26
HomeCycle BIN L36
HomeCycle BIN L36
- Brand: HomeCycle
- Nonwoven felt fabric Inner : 26L( 30Dx40H)
- Bamboo Outer: 35Dx50H Centimeters
- Shape: Cylinder
* FEATURES: Consists of a Fabric Bag (2) and outer bin& A harvesting Inner with separate leakage collection unit integrated. No foul smell.
* PROCESS: Just fill and add food waste in the BIN then stir with bio substrates inside.
* SUITABLE FOR: Ideal for Family of 3-4 members, converting kitchen waste (up to 0.5kg per day) into compost in 9 weeks.
* DESIGN: Light weight unit, easy to move around if needed. Fits into a tight space and can be kept outdoors open to the elements.
* CAPACITY: Can take in 0.5kgs of food waste per day.
* KIT: each CycleBIN comes with accessories: 18 liters of Carbon Substrates , 30gm Microbes Powder, 30gm Neem Powder, a pair of Gloves, Instruction sheet, One Rake, one Scoop, one Bowl for Leachate