30 Mar 2023
With this beautiful smile, Manar Ramadan, co-founder of Banlastic has greeted her 2022 Arlem Award in recognition of her outstanding initiative.
What a proud to see our Switchers rewarded and considered as successful examples to inspire others and also as the ones shaping a more Circular Economy in the region.
Below we have gathered some of our community members’ recent achievements…
Ms Adriana Frank, founder of Frank Wrap has received the Smart & Sustainable Business Award and the Smart & Sustainable Micro-Business Award by the Government of Malta, Ministry for the Economy, European funds and Lands. Frank wrap has won the first prize in the category: Innovative Climate Solution.
Brenmiller Energy won Silver award in the Pioneer in The Cleanie Awards the leading awards program celebrating innovative companies fueling the clean energy future. Brenmiller’s mature and patented bGen™ technology is designed to help decarbonize industrial processes and power production, by turning energy from renewable resources into electric heat.
Spanish Switcher Bioo is the winner of the European product design Award 2022 in Home Interior Products/Lighting, Winner in Illumination/Table Lamps.
Pablo Vidarte, Founder of Bioo claims that the company’s novel technology treats plants rather like solar panel, bringing sustainable, plant-based energy production to everyday life.
In 2022, the ARLEM Award was attributed to our Egyptian Switcher Banlastic. The ARLEM Award aims at showcasing successful examples of these collaborations, to inspire, motivate and replicate best practices.
Founders Manar Ramadan and Ahmed Yassin’s mission is to ban single-use plastic and create a more sustainable future for their community. They have been developing alternative products that can replace single-use plastic, delivering trainings and workshops to educate the community about the harms of plastic pollution, and organising environmental events that bring attention to the issue.
Tunisia Ecotourism and Edama are the implementing partners of EU funded Sircles project and worked on establishing a composting site respectively in Sidi Amor (Tunisia) and Aqaba (Jordan). Both facilities are now fully operational and contributed in creating 28 new full-time employment positions for locals while reducing and revalorizing the organic waste to make a high quality natural fertilizer.
