GOLD
Niagara: Phantom One Piece: the world’s most powerful, high-efficiency toilet
Toilets account for 30% of water usage in homes. Niagara’s Phantom One Piece is a fresh blend of design, and innovative, award-winning technology offering industry leading performance and water efficiency that helps customers reduce water consumption and alleviate high utility bills.
The Phantom One Piece toilet includes Niagara’s patented Stealth Technology®, which has won more than 15 industry and EPA WaterSense® awards for re-engineering the flush into a high-power, low-maintenance, virtually clog-free, water-efficient solution that has saved billions of gallons of the world’s water. This innovative technology has a vacuum-assist pull and a noise-cancelling tank for a whisper-quiet flush. At an efficient 0.8 GPF, the new Phantom One Piece is powerful enough to flush 1,000g of miso, is MaP Premium rated, WaterSense certified and impressively surpasses all industry drain line carry standards.
The Phantom One Piece displays a modern, sleek design that is ideal for residential, multifamily and hospitality properties. It also offers a comfortable elongated bowl and ADA height. Its design offers a concealed trapway that’s aesthetically pleasing and makes it one of the easiest toilets to clean. And, builders and plumbers will find the convenience of a pre-assembled tank easy to install leaving little room for error.
SILVER
Kelpi: Turning the Tide on Plastic Packaging
Only 9% of plastic gets recycled globally, and there are more than 86 million tonnes of plastics in our oceans. More than 99% of plastics are currently produced from chemicals derived from oil, natural gas, and coal – all of which are non-renewable resources.
Kelpi is on a mission to tackle plastic pollution through the development of biomaterials made from seaweed and other natural and renewable resources, that can not only match but even exceed the performance of fossil fuel plastic alternatives. Kelpi’s material has an excellent long-term water and acid barrier, achieved through sustainable and novel chemical functionalisation. Kelpi’s material is applied as a coating to paper, card, and other fibre substrates, meaning it is certified recyclable, compostable, and marine-safe at end of life, and is adaptable to address specific product requirements defined by our clients, for example to package a range of commercial products, including dry, wet, liquid, acidic and greasy products.
Kelpi is targeting large FMCGs in food & drink, home & personal care, who’s ambitious sustainability targets for packaging can be resolved through Kelpi’s solutions.
BRONZE
Neo Wtr: Where Conscious Hydration Meets Global Transformation
Many of the big drinks companies simply aren’t doing enough to address the waste their products create – with the top three plastic polluters in the world being large soft drinks corporations.
In recent years, many bottled water brands have launched alternatives to plastic packaging, but these differing materials such as aluminium or Tetra Pak fall short environmentally. Recycling Tetra Pak isn’t a closed loop: it cannot be made into a carton again and instead leads to a mix of recycling and downcycling, which simply perpetuates the cycle of waste.
We wanted to be part of an alternative solution: one where we provided customers with a credible answer to their need for a bottled water drink, but which had added environmental benefits. A new kind of water: NEO WTR.
We discovered that 80% of the world’s ocean plastics enter the ocean via rivers and coastlines (ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics).
It became clear that any product we developed needed to address the issue of marine pollution, but it needed to be more than just a recyclable product, we needed to create something that helped tackle the issue of waste plastic already out there and make consumers feel good about the product they are choosing.