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Greenback tackles the provenance of plastic materials by building a globally distributed, decentralised network of advanced recycling plants near the sources of plastic waste. It’s time to talk about plastic again! The term ‘advanced recycling’ is a broad one that encompasses a range of chemical processes that allow plastics to be converted back into materials ready to use for...
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Matter is an innovative startup on a mission to develop pioneering technology solutions for capturing, harvesting and recycling microplastics. At this point, we have lost count of the number of times we have written about the severity of the impact of plastic waste on the environment and ecosystem (and startups like My Plastic Diary and The Modern Milkman who are trying to solve at least a part...
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Wires is an innovative London-based startup that's on a mission to bring sustainability to the eyewear industry In the UK alone, 74% of people wear corrective lenses, be these contact lenses or glasses. Billions of glasses are made every year, and millions are thrown away every year. The most common material for making glasses is plastic, a product of the oil industry, which is the biggest poll...
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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 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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Kind Bag is a startup that's tackling plastic pollution by transforming used plastic bottles into a range of beautiful, fashionable and reusable bags... As we all know, our use of plastic has had a seriously detrimental impact on the environment. And whilst we may be more conscious of it and aiming as individuals to do our bit, anything which can in some way help to combat it, ought to be ...
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FiltraCycle - The Irish startup that's tackling environmental pollution in an entirely innovative way... A cigarette doesn’t seem like a lot of waste, does it? One little piece of paper, dry leaves, and some kind of compact cotton filter. Unpleasant to see scattered about the street or getting stuck to your shoe, but there’s far worse litter out there, isn’t there? But what abo...
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Sustainable reward scheme Bagboard, a first-of-its-kind advertising platform for planet-friendly brands launches £600k funding round... Bagboard, the creation of former credit trader Ben Ayres, and advertising executive Ashleigh Bishop, launched a £600k crowdfunding campaign via Seedrs this week to raise funds for the first sustainable rewards scheme that marries major brand campaigns...
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The Melbourne-based startup Returnr that has "Shared use, less resources, less waste" at its core, aiming to replace single use takeaway packaging with equivalent reusable solutions... Waste from packaging is a massive problem, with plastics being the most obvious and most prevalent. If you make your lunch at home to take to work with you, you are contributing less to this waste, but you are...
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Scottish startup Phox Water saw that 100 million water filter cartridges go to landfills every year. This is their simple solution. We’ve written already about startups tackling the world’s problem with plastics. From replacing packing material, to breaking plastic down into reusable chemicals, to turning it into aggregate for building, startups are taking on this huge waste issue wit...
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