With half a billion plastic boxes used across the takeaway sector every year, Just Eat and Notpla team up to create eco-friendly seaweed-lined takeaway box. The box is recyclable and home-compostable and will degrade within four weeks Initial trial launched in London with three Just Eat restaurant partners As part of its mission to tackle…
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Coconut water is among the best thirst quenchers in the sweltering months. But there’s more. Did you know that coconut water can be the base material to develop alternative leather? A little known Kerala-based start-up ‘Malai Biomaterials Design’ courted spotlight a few days ago when it won the second edition of Circular Design Challenge (CDC)…
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Last year, Japanese artist Sho Shibuya raised awareness for the global plastic pollution crisis with a 144-page book, called PLASTIC PAPER, which catalogued the range of designs printed on single-use plastic bags collected across the streets of New York City. Three weeks after the book launched, New York announced a ban on single-use plastic bags.…
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IUV Srl is an innovative start-up that was set up in May 2019 focusing on the research, development, production and commercialization of modern, sustainable and natural packaging. The idea behind it, however, dates back to 2011. “I was in high school in 2011 and, during a Business English lesson, the teacher talked about food waste…
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Micro-engineered bioplastics. An additive that allows different plastics to be compatible with one another. A new way to recycle lithium-ion batteries. These are a handful of the ideas underpinning the startups that graduated Thursday from the Circularity Challenge, a six-month incubator in Greentown Labs, one of the largest cleantech incubators in North America. Each business…
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