Trobak, give value to your waste

Trobak is a smart composter that helps you reduce your impact on the planet by sorting your food-waste and turn it into a healthy usable compost in your apartment. Its connected features offers you a whole new experience and most of all, it is totally odorless. So forget about bad smells & insects, these pains are now part of the past !

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Help the planet, sort your waste without pain

With Trobak we want to help each one of you to fight one of the main problem of our time: food-waste. We want to reduce the part of food that ends up in the trash and gives it value.

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Throw and get back

With Trobak you'll be able to turn your food waste into a perfectly healthy & usable compost for your interior plants or garden

Smart

With the app, you can follow the process status, ask question to Trobot and find people around you to share your compost with.

Odorless

Thanks to the 100% natural additive we developed odors won't be an issue anymore. Reduce your impact on the planet without pain!

More than just an app

The application is full-part of the Trobak experience. Through it, you'll be able to follow the transformation process, ask questions to our mascot Trobot about what you can or cannot put inside it, and access the community platform in order to share information or your extra compost production.

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Team members


Profile picture of Rihab Hammami
  • Rihab Hammami

  • Business
  • UNIL
Profile picture of Erika Marthins
  • Erika Marthins

  • User Experience
  • ECAL
Profile picture of Dylan Casasnovas
  • Dylan Casasnovas

  • Industrial Design
  • ECAL
Profile picture of Valérie Springmann
  • Valérie Springmann

  • Electronic Engineering
  • EPFL
Profile picture of Pierre Brémon
  • Pierre Brémon

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • EPFL

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“Jury’s Crush” Award for Trobak @ Start Contest UNIL

May 3, 2018

Hi everyone ! As we announced two weeks ago already , the new Trobak team composed of Pierre and Rihab (for those who participated in the 2016-2017 edition of the… [...]

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Start Contest Finale

April 18, 2018

Hi everyone, It's been a while. We're not gonna make a post to tell you everything that we did since the end of our edition of the program, we're just… [...]

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Migrant workers in Shenzhen and Hong-Kong

August 2, 2017

Chinese population is a well-known immigrating population. There are Chinese immigrants all around the world, from Europe to North America and more recently to Africa where China is taking the… [...]

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Border Ecologies: Innovation Park

July 30, 2017

Honk Kong Science and Technology Park We had the great opportunity to visit the Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Park that gather several enterprises, start-ups and research center in… [...]

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Border Ecologies: Tourism

July 30, 2017

This text is an attempt to compare the touristic experience in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common… [...]

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Last and busy day

July 29, 2017

What a last day! Tuesday was the last day in Shenzhen, the last of this great adventure. We started the day with a couple of hours catching up on our… [...]

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Progress – Problem – Progress

July 20, 2017

Hello dear reader, After two more general posts we're back at what we do best : work (héhé). As you know we are now in Shenzhen in order to develop… [...]

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Design Activity – Jockey Club Innovation Tower

July 20, 2017

On Friday we got the opportunity to visit the Jockey Club Innovation Tower and more precisely, the exhibition that the the School of Design was holding in the building. Just… [...]

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Hong-Kong days 3 and 4

July 16, 2017

Hello hello ! It's been 3 days since we landed in this big city of Hong-Kong, and even if the days are long (and the nights getting shorter for some… [...]

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Hello Hong-Kong ! Day 1-2

July 16, 2017

Hey people, It's been a while again, we promised more regularity but you know how it is ! Anyway... We arrived in Hong-Kong ! After months speaking (and dreaming) about… [...]

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Before Milestone 3

May 30, 2017

Hi everyone, Short post today, just to let you know how much we've done since last post and how we're getting ready for the final milestone before heading to China! Rihab… [...]

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Making some tests, sharing with researchers from abroad

May 16, 2017

Hello everyone ! Nice logo isn't it? After long discussions and iterations, Erika our designer created this logo so we can use it from now on to communicate on our… [...]

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Yes. We definitely need more regularity !

May 9, 2017

Hello people ! As said in the title of this post, we need to post on a more regular basis. We'll work on it we promise ! So, what's new… [...]

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Hey ! Long time no see !

April 4, 2017

Hi everyone, It's been a while. We all had a lot of thing to do and we kind of forgot to keep you up to date. Sorry for that :)… [...]

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Week 3 – Data Processing and discussions

March 12, 2017

Hey people ! This week has been pretty important since we started processing the datas we got from the online survey we disseminated through the internet. It's not gonna be… [...]

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Week 2 – Still going strong

March 4, 2017

This week was a great week ! We had a really productive meeting on Thursday during which we decided to study what the product available on the market are capable… [...]

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Week 1 – Where are we going?

February 26, 2017

So here we are, one week passed since kick-off. Time really flies pretty quick and you only realize it when you reach the deadlines. Anyway, we used that time pretty… [...]

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There was no time wasted today

February 19, 2017

We are proud to present you our first cardboard mock-up ! Yes it's hard to believe but it's not working yet... Let's be serious for a bit, we spent the… [...]

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Our first post – Let’s get started !

December 2, 2016

Hi everyone, We're Team Food-Waste ! As every other team in the CHIC program, we're all student from different backgrounds and we chose to work on the thematic of the… [...]

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