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  YoungPlanet is an app that "enables parents to put no longer used children’s things to good use with new families and away from landfill, for free". With Spring firmly on its way, many of us will be turning our attention to spring cleaning and decluttering. And if you've got children there'll no doubt be lots of things that are taking up space that they've either outgrown or no lo...
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For the first time ever, the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge has both a British winner and runner up in the form of innovative startups SoluBlue and Jiva Materials Revolutionary packaging startup, SoluBlue, has been awarded the top prize of €500,000 from the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge, one of the world’s largest annual sustainability competitions. The Cambridge-based start...
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The lowdown on Pentaform, the London-based startup that has created an easy-to-use and eco-friendly personal computer that is globally accessible We won’t detail yet again the high cost that the convenience of plastic has on the environment, as we have done so many times previously, due to the encouraging number of startups being created to combat plastic waste in one form or another. But...
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Innovative, purpose-driven startups with a focus on sustainability wanted to join the latest cohort of Huckletree’s Alpha Programme Applications from innovative startups are now being sought by creative workspace and accelerator Huckletree, for the eighth cohort of its Alpha Programme, a 12-week pre-seed accelerator designed to turbocharge the launch and growth of the most exciting and im...
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The lowdown on Hoxton Farms, the innovative foodtech startup that's unlocking a new kind of meat replacement that blends plant-based and cultivated ingredients For decades, the food industry has faced the challenge of finding effective, low-cost and sustainable replacements for traditional animal fat, the most important sensory ingredient in meat. Fat defines how meat looks, cooks, and tastes &...
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The Modern Milkman is a Yorkshire-based startup that's delivering fresh ways to reduce plastic waste, shop ethically and feel good about convenience... In the UK, dairy farmers produce roughly 14 billion litres of milk every year. Not all of this is for consumption as-is, as some has to be used for products like cheese and butter, but that’s still a lot of milk going into mostly plastic b...
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The lowdown on ChopValue, the Vancouver-based startup that's creating beautiful homeware and decorative products from recycled chopsticks... It may not be the world’s biggest environmental disaster, but every single week, hundreds of thousands, millions of chopsticks are thrown away. Bear with us.  These may be cheap, they may even come free with your takeaway, but that doesn’...
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The accolade this week goes to MyPlasticDiary, an innovative app which will enable you to track, understand and reduce your plastic footprint It’d be fair to say that most of us want to be more environmentally-conscious and reduce the amount of plastic that we use. It’s not always that easy though. We may have the best intentions to reduce our plastic consumption yet it can still be...
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Reboxed is a Brixton-based sustainable commerce startup that's created a smarter, safer, more sustainable way to buy and sell your tech In 2020, Apple was fined €25m by France's competition and fraud watchdog for deliberately degrading the performance of older iPhone models, arguably in an attempt to force users to upgrade; a practice it still applies to older models.  Every year, th...
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The Good Club is a startup and online platform that is on a mission to make good, sustainable and organic food and groceries accessible to all Whilst we may be fully aware of the impact that our purchases can have on the world at large and we’re generally better informed than ever before, most of us could still try that bit harder when it comes to shopping sustainably. And the thing ...
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