MyZubster Circular Economy Pilot Projects: Hemp, Absorbent Products, Japan, and Singapore

From a broad vision to concrete pilot proposals

MyZubster is developing a portfolio of proposed pilot projects connecting:

• Industrial hemp
• Circular materials
• Sanitary pads and diapers
• Absorbent Hygiene Products, or AHP
• Collection and material recovery
• Artificial intelligence
• Environmental measurement
• International research
• Digital rewards and tokenized records

The objective is to test small, measurable initiatives before presenting the model as a complete industrial solution.

The organizations named in this article have been contacted through exploratory emails or included as project interlocutors.

Their inclusion does not imply acceptance, endorsement, financing, contractual participation or a confirmed partnership.

Pilot 1: Japan Circular Care

Proposed organizations

• Kao Corporation
• Unicharm Corporation

MyZubster sent separate exploratory pilot proposals to Kao and Unicharm concerning a Japan-focused Absorbent Hygiene Products initiative.

The proposed pilot concerns products such as:

• Baby diapers
• Adult incontinence products
• Sanitary pads
• Other absorbent personal-care products

The objective is to explore how product design, collection, traceability and recovery might work together.

Why Japan?

Japan is an important reference for this work because of its experience with:

• Advanced personal-care products
• Product quality and manufacturing
• Childcare
• Elder care
• Demographic change
• High-density waste-management systems
• Research into used diaper recovery

The proposed MyZubster Circular Care pilot would begin with mapping rather than manufacturing.

Possible first activities include:

1. Mapping the lifecycle of an AHP product.
2. Identifying the materials used in each layer.
3. Studying collection and sanitation requirements.
4. Defining measurable circularity indicators.
5. Evaluating where hemp-derived fibers or cellulose might be tested.
6. Recording evidence through MyZubster.

Kao and Unicharm have been contacted as potential Japanese interlocutors. Their participation has not been confirmed.

Pilot 2: Open Absorbent Circularity

Organization contacted

• Fater Group
• EMBRACED project

MyZubster sent documentation and a proposed Life Pilot Starter to the EMBRACED/Fater team.

The proposed pilot focuses on the circularity of absorbent hygiene products.

The initial format is approximately four weeks and is designed to establish:

• A value-chain map
• A baseline
• Key performance indicators
• Evidence requirements
• Material-flow records
• Recovery opportunities
• A preliminary implementation roadmap

This pilot does not assume that an entire diaper or sanitary pad can immediately become circular.

It begins by identifying:

• Which components can be separated
• Which materials can be recovered
• Which fractions require specialist treatment
• Which health and safety rules apply
• Which environmental claims can be supported by evidence

Fater and EMBRACED have been contacted for exploratory discussion. No formal partnership is claimed.

Pilot 3: Industrial Hemp Circularity

Organizations and institutions contacted

• Libeco
• Hemp4Circularity
• KU Leuven
• SSUCHY-Next
• CREA
• Open Fields
• Azienda Agraria Sperimentale Stuard
• Comune di Capannori

This pilot explores whether industrial-hemp fibers, cellulose and agricultural by-products could contribute to circular products and biomaterials.

Libeco and Hemp4Circularity

MyZubster sent the Pilot Project Pack and a Life Pilot Starter proposal to the Libeco/Hemp4Circularity team.

The proposed activities include:

• Hemp value-chain mapping
• Material traceability
• Baseline measurement
• Circularity indicators
• Evidence collection
• Identification of industrial use cases

KU Leuven and SSUCHY-Next

Pilot documentation was also sent to Professor Aart Willem Van Vuure at KU Leuven in connection with work concerning circular hemp and biomaterials.

The purpose of this contact is to explore the scientific and engineering questions behind natural-fiber applications.

These include:

• Mechanical performance
• Fiber treatment
• Composite materials
• Durability
• Manufacturing compatibility
• End-of-life options

CREA, Open Fields and Stuard

MyZubster contacted CREA regarding a verifiable industrial-hemp circularity pilot and the experience connected to the valorization of hemp by-products and waste.

Open Fields and Azienda Agraria Sperimentale Stuard were included among the technical and agricultural interlocutors.

The proposed pilot requires an officially recognized scientific or technical institution capable of supporting:

• Agricultural validation
• Material characterization
• Data quality
• Experimental methodology
• Independent verification

Comune di Capannori

The environmental office of the Comune di Capannori was contacted regarding a proposed pilot on reuse, waste and material-flow measurement.

A municipality could help evaluate the territorial side of circularity:

• Collection
• Local operators
• Waste classification
• Citizen participation
• Public reporting
• Replicability

All these organizations are prospective pilot interlocutors. Their participation must be confirmed individually.

Pilot 4: Territorial Collection and Recovery

Organizations contacted or included in project communication

• Futura Società Cooperativa Sociale
• Cooperativa 134
• Gruppo Hera
• Anthea
• Agrosistemi
• CRPA
• Bioazul
• ART-ER
• Maggioli
• University of Bologna
• University of Padua
• University of Ferrara

Circularity cannot stop at product design. It needs a real territorial system.

The proposed territorial pilot would map:

Product
   ↓
Use
   ↓
Collection
   ↓
Safe handling
   ↓
Separation or treatment
   ↓
Material recovery
   ↓
Verified outcome

Potential activities include:

• Identifying a limited pilot area
• Selecting one material flow
• Recording quantities before intervention
• Defining collection responsibilities
• Measuring contamination
• Documenting transport and treatment
• Publishing verified outcomes
• Calculating environmental and operational indicators

Futura Società Cooperativa Sociale received MyZubster LIFE documentation and project updates.

Project communications were also forwarded to Cooperativa 134.

Gruppo Hera and Anthea were contacted in relation to territorial, environmental, data-governance or pilot-development themes.

Additional scientific and technical interlocutors included Agrosistemi, CRPA, Bioazul, ART-ER, Maggioli and university contacts.

These communications represent outreach and project development. They do not establish a formal consortium.

Pilot 5: Singapore Smart Urban Farm and Digital Evidence

Organizations contacted

• NUS Enterprise
• NUS Agritech Centre
• Republic Polytechnic
• Urban Agriculture Centre of Innovation — UACOI

MyZubster sent a Smart Urban Farm Pilot proposal and follow-up documentation to NUS Enterprise and Republic Polytechnic/UACOI.

The proposed Singapore pilot connects:

• Urban agriculture
• IoT sensors
• AI-assisted decisions
• Environmental observations
• Verifiable data
• Circular resource use
• Transparent rewards

A possible workflow is:

Sensor or human observation
   ↓
MyZubster evidence record
   ↓
AI-assisted interpretation
   ↓
Human verification
   ↓
Published indicator
   ↓
Possible reward

Singapore is relevant because it combines technological development, international trade, urban constraints and a mature regulatory environment.

NUS Enterprise, the NUS Agritech Centre, Republic Polytechnic and UACOI have been contacted as potential technical or research interlocutors.

No collaboration or regulatory approval should be inferred from the outreach.

Pilot 6: Evidence-Based Tokens

The token component is not intended to finance an untested idea or create speculative value.

Its proposed role is to record or reward verified events inside a functioning pilot.

Examples might include:

• A hemp batch documented
• A laboratory test completed
• A kilogram of material collected
• A recovery result verified
• An environmental indicator published
• A participant completing an approved activity

The guiding rule is:

No evidence, no reward.

The token should not replace conventional money, regulated banking, legal contracts or independent verification.

Before any real-world launch, the model would require analysis covering:

• Financial regulation
• Singapore digital-asset rules
• European regulation
• Consumer protection
• Tax treatment
• Anti-money-laundering requirements
• Personal-data protection
• Cybersecurity
• Token classification

At present, the token layer should be considered research and technical experimentation, not an investment product or public offering.

The role of Banco BPM

Banco BPM is my personal banking reference.

A search of my sent project emails did not identify a formal pilot proposal sent to Banco BPM concerning these initiatives.

For this reason, Banco BPM is not listed as a pilot participant or contacted project organization.

A traditional bank could potentially support future needs such as:

• Business banking
• Payments
• Project finance
• Working capital
• Supply-chain finance
• International transactions
• Financial controls

Any future involvement would require a separate formal contact, assessment and written agreement.

The existence of a personal banking relationship does not imply endorsement, financing or partnership.

MyZubster as the evidence layer

The technical purpose of MyZubster is to connect observations, documentation and verification.

The workflow is:

Observe
   ↓
Document
   ↓
Connect
   ↓
Collaborate
   ↓
Verify
   ↓
Publish
   ↓
Reward

MyZubster now also has a working local Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline using:

• Ollama
• nomic-embed-text
• Qdrant
• Mistral
• A Flask API

This system can search documented observations and generate answers grounded in retrieved sources.

In a pilot project, the AI layer could help answer questions such as:

• Which material batches have verified origins?
• Which observations concern recyclable packaging?
• Where did contamination exceed the baseline?
• Which recovery events have supporting evidence?
• Which organizations are responsible for each stage?

Artificial intelligence should help people navigate evidence. It should not be allowed to invent project results.

Proposed pilot status

Pilot	Organizations contacted	Current status
Japan Circular Care	Kao, Unicharm	Exploratory outreach sent
Open Absorbent Circularity	Fater Group, EMBRACED	Pilot documentation sent
Industrial Hemp Circularity	Libeco, Hemp4Circularity, KU Leuven, SSUCHY-Next, CREA, Open Fields, Stuard	Exploratory outreach and documentation sent
Territorial Collection	Comune di Capannori, Futura, Cooperativa 134, Hera, Anthea and technical interlocutors	Preliminary outreach
Singapore Smart Urban Farm	NUS Enterprise, NUS Agritech Centre, Republic Polytechnic, UACOI	Proposal and follow-ups sent
Evidence-Based Tokens	No confirmed institutional operator	Research stage
Banking support	Banco BPM	Personal banking relationship only

What happens next?

The immediate priority is not to add more names. It is to convert outreach into a small number of clearly governed experiments.

Each pilot needs:

1. A confirmed lead organization
2. A written scope
3. Defined responsibilities
4. A limited duration
5. Measurable indicators
6. Data-protection rules
7. Technical validation
8. A final evidence report
9. Permission before publishing participant names as partners

Until those conditions are met, the correct terminology is:

• Organization contacted
• Potential interlocutor
• Proposed pilot participant
• Exploratory discussion
• Documentation submitted

The term partner should be reserved for organizations that have explicitly accepted a defined role.

Conclusion

MyZubster is moving from a broad circular-economy vision toward a portfolio of proposed pilot projects.

The connections are becoming more concrete:

• Kao and Unicharm for Japanese AHP exploration
• Fater and EMBRACED for absorbent-product circularity
• Libeco and Hemp4Circularity for industrial hemp
• KU Leuven and SSUCHY-Next for biomaterial research
• CREA, Open Fields and Stuard for agricultural and scientific validation
• Municipal and territorial operators for collection
• NUS Enterprise and Republic Polytechnic for the Singapore pilot
• MyZubster for evidence, AI and transparent coordination

The organizations have been contacted, but contact is not partnership.

The next milestone is to secure explicit participation in limited, measurable and independently verifiable pilot projects.

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Disclosure: This article describes proposed projects and documented outreach. The organizations named have not necessarily approved, endorsed or joined MyZubster. The article is not an investment offer, financial advice or an announcement of regulatory approval.