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Building a conscious company: A guide for sustainable startups
by: Startacus Admin ~ 21st February 2023
Want to get your startup's eco-credentials in order from the off? These tips from sustainable packaging company, BioPak will help you do just that.
If you’re planning to launch a start-up, one crucial thing you’ll want to consider is your budding company’s eco-credentials. As climate change and dwindling natural resources become a more urgent issue, businesses across the ...
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Kelpi - innovation in sustainable packaging
by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th February 2023
The lowdown on Kelpi, the startup that's using seaweed to develop an innovative solution to the global plastic packaging problem.
In the UK alone, households throw away around 100 billion articles of plastic packaging every year. As we have written so many times now, this is massively damaging to the environment and to sea life, because no matter where plastic ends up being discarded, it pollut...
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Save Your Wardrobe - the digital wardrobe management startup
by: Startacus Admin ~ 7th February 2023
Fashion sustainability - London-based Save Your Wardrobe is on a mission to help you reconnect with the contents of your wardrobe and extend the lifecycle of your items.
We have written many times in the past about the damage that the fashion industry has on the environment, not to mention the exploitation of workers. Whether it’s Uptrade tackling fabric waste, Resortecs enabling textile ...
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Clothes Doctor secures £1million to meet demand for its sustainable fashion care products
by: Startacus Admin ~ 25th January 2023
The Clothes Doctor mission to fight fast fashion continues as the innovative eco clothing care brand raises £1m to support further growth.
Eco-friendly clothing care business, Clothes Doctor, has secured £1million of investment to fuel growth of its business, as consumer demand increases for ways to maintain a sustainable wardrobe and prolong the life of loved fashion items. The inv...
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Odd Coffee Company - saving the world, one coffee at a time
by: Startacus Admin ~ 20th January 2023
Odd Coffee Company - the startup that's tackling coffee wastage by offering sustainably-sourced surplus coffee, rescued from British roasters.
They say that the Earth revolves around the sun. They say that the Earth rotates 15 degrees per hour. We say that it’s coffee that makes the world go round and gives us the sunrise - that spark, that glimmer of hope, that signal that it’s tim...
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Revive - the startup striving to create a waste free world
by: Startacus Admin ~ 6th January 2023
Sustainable and innovative - Revive is a Glasgow-based greentech startup that has created a palm oil alternative from used coffee grounds.
Palm oil is a versatile oil that is used in numerous everyday products, from shampoo to chocolate. It is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world. However, its production is one of the biggest factors in deforestation and carbon emissions; its ...
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Verna - using geospatial data science to address the climate and nature crises
by: Startacus Admin ~ 21st December 2022
London-based startup Verna aims to help landowners, investors, and policymakers to use land in ways that draw down carbon, enhance biodiversity and generate sustainable returns.
We have written about startups like Ecologi, Treekly, and TreeCard - to name just a few - who work to reforest areas damaged by deforestation. These may be decimated mangrove forests in Madagascar, desertified land in B...
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BT pushes ahead with new sustainable digital solutions through its Green Tech Innovation Platform
by: Startacus Admin ~ 1st December 2022
BT reveals new cohort of innovative startups aiming to help solve sustainability challenges in the manufacturing sector.
BT has just announced phase two of its Green Tech Innovation Platform (TIP), to fast-track cutting-edge new digital solutions to help manufacturers cut their carbon emissions and progress towards a circular world.
Following the initial scouting phase supported by Plug and Pl...
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Innovate UK KTN launches its 2022 sustainable impact accelerator programme
by: Startacus Admin ~ 28th September 2022
Innovate UK KTN’s Sustainable Impact Investment Programme chooses 13 sustainable UK startups striving to change the world
Innovate UK KTN has chosen 13 startups of the future to take part in its prestigious sustainability accelerator programme. Over the next ten weeks, 13 companies selected from the Sustainable Innovation Fund will work with Innovate UK KTN and their partners Growth Studi...
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Uptrade - the Paris-based startup that's fighting fabric waste
by: Startacus Admin ~ 19th August 2022
Uptrade - the sustainable startup that's created a link between textile businesses with dormant stocks and those who need them in the upcycling or reuse economy.
We have written several times previously about how much the fashion industry contributes to pollution and CO2 emissions, whether it’s startups tackling fast fashion, or sustainable fashion shows for young people, or keeping &lsqu...
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