Ichthion (Accelerator)

Company Description: Ichthion, a multi-award winning company born out of the laboratories of Imperial College London, seeks to overcome the limitations of existing technologies by delivering the first truly scalable solutions to reduce the flow of plastics into the world’s oceans, proposing energy-generative systems that uniquely can installed in rivers, coastal areas and the oceans to remove plastic waste and generate data. We have developed three types of technology streams, Azure, Cobalt and Ultramarine. These operate in different environments to prevent macro and micro plastics entering into the phytoplankton growth areas in coastal zones, and also for the reclamation of plastics in the ocean. Our systems are in Technology Readiness Level 4 (Test system Validation in lab environment). Our technologies have been designed to provided data about the plastic, which we use to inform goverments about strategies of circular economy that can effectively reduce the pollution entering the waterstreams.