Environment-Friendly Projects using Blockchain

The ever-growing carbon footprint that we leave on the planet every day is not something that we can afford averting our gaze from anymore.

Whether it is through the food that we do not eat, the clothes that we wear, or the electricity that we generate, we have all been a part of contributing to industrial waste and carbon emission, and have thus indirectly added to the larger carbon footprint of planet Earth in one way or another.

Considering the long-term effects of poor waste management and ineffective energy provision from an environmental perspective, it is imperative for us to start looking into options that allow us to do our part into making the planet a better place to live, so we may leave a gift and not a dystopian reality filled with nothing but liability for our future generations.

Fortunately, people from the sought-after blockchain industry have been thinking along the same lines, and those actions have brought about quite a few interesting projects to the surface.

While there have been many projects that aim to work towards the betterment of the planet, a number of them are particularly of note not only due to the solutions that they offer but the way that they propose to execute them.

Keeping this in mind, we have put together a list of notable projects that have the potential to do something tangible for the environment, and have also compared their value proposition side by side in order to ensure that we can divert all our support towards the project that has the best chances for success.

So without any further ado, let’s go ahead and start learning about these projects that could radically modify the overall environmental impact and its after effects for everyone.

Recereum

Recereum aims to change the way of thinking of the overall population when it comes to waste management, by the simple association of rewards with the responsibility of clearing the waste that we create every day.

Through the transparency and immutability of blockchain technology, Recereum will be rewarding those consumers with its native token who take part in responsibly disposing of their everyday waste such as plastic bottles, textiles, and soda cans.

Whenever any user would perform the action of sorting and disposing of their waste responsibly, they can log the action through Recereum’s provided mobile apps, and receive RCR tokens in return.

Similarly, businesses — which generally leave a larger carbon footprint and thus have a larger responsibility to take effective actions in order to reduce it — could also make use of Recereum’s provided services in order to be rewarded for larger scale waste management operations. Businesses will also be provided with special interface applications so they could meet their customized needs in a timely manner.

The RCR tokens that these users will receive from the network could be utilized through its partners’ locations to take more environmentally friendly actions, to get a better quality of life themselves by the purchase of various products, or to pay electricity bills for the pertinent user — which just adds a new layer of incentivization to the whole model.

However, as amazing as the project sounds through its proposed solutions, it is difficult to find technical details in its whitepaper to ensure if the Recereum team will be able to translate its solutions to the end user or not. That being said, the project does look promising otherwise.

The pre-sale for Recereum ended on January 25, 2018; however, its public token sale has still not been completed. It is expected to announce a date for it soon.

Swachhcoin

Being launched through the Ethereum platform, Swachhcoin focuses on making the process of waste management easier for all associated parties without them having to go through daunting procedures so that they do not feel overwhelmed while doing their part for the planet’s betterment.

The blockchain-based Swachhcoin will be focusing on not just encouraging users to dispose of their waste effectively, but for when they do, it will be looking into turning the waste itself into a useful commodity by the generation of fuel and other resources that could be derived out of it.

The platform will also look into automating the overall system of waste management, so that any parties that want to do their part in being eco-friendly do not have to dedicate a large section of their everyday life to this cause — which is something that has tired many of those who had looked into cleaner ways of disposing off waste but were put off by the industry’s currently employed difficult and daunting processes.

Swachhcoin will be rewarding its users for employing responsible waste management practices in their everyday life through its SCX tokens, where such operations will be managed through its AI, Big Data and IoT solutions that are all integrated into its blockchain platform.

Similar to multinational companies and brands, the system will also look into modifying its offerings and solutions according to each country and region’s different infrastructure, which in itself is a very promising aspect that alludes towards greater adaptability of Swachhcoin’s solutions in the real world.

Swachhcoin does a pretty good job of explaining how it will achieve these solutions, as it clearly lays out its usage of its customized “SwBIN LED panel”, a solution that will be a point of operation through various locations; the security and safeguarding techniques employed around its Swachh server; and its advanced IoT sensors which will help collect effective data through users’ actions while also providing optimal route suggestions for effective waste management.

By elaborating on the solution that it provides, Swachhcoin clearly stands apart from its counterparts in providing waste management and eco-friendly solutions.

The project is just about to conclude its Early Adopter Sale, which will be completed in July 31st, 2018. Once the pre-sale event is over, whitelisting registration will open from August 7 and continue until August 15 — which is also the day that Swachhcoin’s public token sale will commence, ending on October 28, 2018.

WePower

WePower is a green energy trading platform that harnesses the limpidity and security of blockchain technology for all energy trades on its system to go through without any change of malpractice at any point of time.

Based on the Ethereum blockchain, WePower will be providing an easy to use trading platform to all such vendors who are looking to tokenize their green energy solutions and sell them off to interested parties in selected regions who are looking to do their part in making Earth a better place to live.

The WePower platform will be leveraging the ability of the Ethereum blockchain pertaining to Smart Contracts, which it has branded as Smart Energy Contracts for marketability purposes.

With a clear and clean objective that would allow green energy companies to reach out to individuals and businesses that are interested in their solutions, WePower seems to be tapping into a market that has a clear need of effective systems that could make day to day life easier to for its participants.

Apart from facilitating smart energy contracts through its native token, WPR, WePower will also provide a platform to new renewable energy projects that are looking towards financing in order to get their operations up and running.

Here, such projects could take part in WePower’s ecosystem and raise funds for their own solutions in order to develop and deliver them to the day to the day user, which not only makes life easier for such projects but also for those users who are looking for more effective and pocket-friendly solutions. By supplementing the increase of business in the green energy space, WePower also looks towards breaking apart the monopoly concept in energy provision, so users could get better rates from providers out of their motivation of being relevant in a competitive market.

WePower supports solar, wind, hydro and local energy solutions that are eco-friendly. The project has already closed a financing round of $40 million in February 2018 and currently aims to go operational in Spain, Estonia, and Australia by the end of this year

4New

4New is a blockchain based green energy solution that operates on the Ethereum blockchain and aims towards making the acquisition of renewable energy easier for its users.

The solution takes a notable approach of being born out of the cryptocurrency community’s energy usage through mining operations and its potential increase with time. According to 4New, it is high time for the cryptocurrency community to come forward and take tangible actions to employ green energy solutions for their own needs instead of leaving a significant carbon footprint on the planet.

The platform mainly focuses on providing clean energy to its users by the usage of waste-to-energy power plants. The power plants will be taking thousands of tons of waste in order to convert it to water and other resources that could then turn into fuel for green energy generation for its users.

Due to the aforementioned approach, 4New will be focusing on delivering the energy produced through these plants to users who would employ it largely towards cryptocurrency mining (such as mining pools). Apart from this niche setting, 4New will also open its doors to sell its solutions to everyday users who could utilize the economical yet environmentally-friendly energy in their day to day life.

The network and its KWATT token will be the epitome of tokenized energy, where each KWATT will directly correspond to one kilowatt of energy, so users who are buying these tokens know exactly how long their purchased energy will last and for how much money — depending on their energy consumption needs.

By being a marketplace for green energy that focuses on doing something tangible, 4New seems to be an interesting solution on paper. Its token sale is currently live on its website, where it has a hard cap of $75 million, having already reached its soft cap target of $42 million.

The Possibilities of these Projects are Promising, with One Clear Winner

While projects such as Recereum, WePower, and 4New promise disruptive solutions, no one does as good a job at defining the technicalities of its offerings — or making them as diverse — as Swachhcoin.

The project’s aim and its various solutions that could be employed throughout different settings deserve the attention that the Swachhcoin team is currently looking for the project to garner.

On paper, the project has the best portfolio of all of the aforementioned solutions and it could very well become the go-to platform for eco-friendly users of blockchain technology due to how it does not only apply rewards for users to encourage effective waste management, but also because how it provides tracking and automation solutions to the otherwise convoluted industry processes.

These solutions are just some of many use cases of Swachhcoin that could truly revolutionize waste management procedures for an eco-friendly lifestyle for responsible entities throughout the world.

For now, Swachhcoin does provide a clean and clear timeline and roadmap for its users, so we could all observe the successful completion of its token sale in order to see the project coming to fruition afterward.