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Greenback - on a mission to develop circular solutions for packaging waste
by: Startacus Admin ~ 25th March 2022
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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Provenance - using transparency tech to tackle greenwashing
by: Startacus Admin ~ 25th March 2022
The lowdown on London-based greentech startup Provenance and its digital solution to verify corporate sustainability.
With a (too slowly) increasing awareness of our ability to actually be carbon neutral and use fully recyclable packing materials and being entirely net-zero comes an increase in the number of claims of being such. Not all of these claims are accurate, to be generous. There are a...
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ChopValue - the startup that's recycling and repurposing chopsticks
by: Startacus Admin ~ 3rd February 2021
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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FiltraCycle - the startup that recycles cigarette butts
by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th August 2020FiltraCycle - 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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BioCellection provides innovation in plastic recycling
by: Startacus Admin ~ 22nd April 2019Plastic recycling in an entirely innovative way thanks to BioCellection, the startup that's using advanced technologies to transform un-recyclable plastics into virgin quality chemicals...
Just the other day, Jason Momoa shaved off his beard to raise awareness of plastic pollution and recycling, climate change demonstrators are gluing themselves to things across the UK, not long ago, UK scho...
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Startup of the Week - Recyclabox
by: Startacus Admin ~ 29th August 2018Recyclabox - The automated kiosk which is changing forever the way that we as consumers sell old electronics...
Let’s face it - we’ve all done it - we upgrade our mobiles and last year’s model gets consigned to a drawer or cupboard, never to be seen again until we are on a decluttering mission. Of course it’s not just mobiles which are on the receiving end of such treatmen...
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Startup of the Week - Edens Paper
by: Startacus Admin ~ 18th December 2013Christmas Day is almost upon us once more - a day generally filled with the usual suspects - lots of food and drink, lots of presents (if we’ve been good) and of course lots of discarded wrapping paper.All that effort we put into wrapping our gifts and the recipient tears it off in a split second and casts it aside without a second thought.Well, thanks to our latest Startup of the Week, that...
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