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The lowdown on Recycap, the Alicante-based startup and its innovative solution for recycling coffee capsules for home, commercial and industrial use. Coffee pods have become popular thanks to their ability to balance the taste of proper ground coffee with the simplicity and convenience of instant coffee. The problem, of course, is that the coffee comes inside either plastic or aluminium pods th...
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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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Recycling made easy thanks to Resortecs, a startup that's developed an innovative solution to enable high-quality textile recycling on an industrial scale. We have written in the past about how damaging to the environment the textile and fashion industries are, as well as numerous startups being created to combat the issue at various points along the journey, from base materials to completed, ...
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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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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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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 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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Plastic 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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Recyclabox - 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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Christmas 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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