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4 Mins Read Thanks to the digital age, secondhand shopping has totally taken off online and is no longer confined to the neighbourhood charity thrift shop. Gone are the days where you have to sort through piles of donated clothing for your next sustainable fashion purchase. Now, buying and selling preloved clothing has never been easier thanks to […]
3 Mins Read IKEA and H&M have teamed up to explore the potential and challenges in using recycled textiles to meet their 2030 sustainability targets.
8 Mins Read We know, WE KNOW. It’s always tempting to shop with all the new and trendy clothes everywhere, especially when it feels like they are always on sale. But we have to face facts! Our planet is suffering and fast fashion is a major source of harmful greenhouse gases, not to mention that landfills all over […]
3 Mins Read Who Gives A Crap, the Aussie eco-friendly toilet paper company, has raised $30.7 million in its latest Series A funding round. The round was led by Verlinvest, the firm that has backed Oatly and Tony’s Chocolonely, and a number of other mission-aligned investors that were vetted by the startup’s “very specific criteria”. Who Gives A […]
5 Mins Read Starbucks, the world’s largest coffee chain, is going circular. In a new global campaign, the company will be serving handcrafted beverages in reusable cups, offering increased discounts for customers who bring in their own cup for a limited time and gifting free drinks depending on the country, in a bid to get customers into the […]
5 Mins Read We zone in on six packaging startups from all over the world who are at the forefront of fighting plastic waste with their solutions.
5 Mins Read By: Alejandro Gallego Schmid, Adisa Azapagic & Joan Manuel F. Mendoza We are facing a waste crisis, with landfills across the world at full capacity and mountains of “recycled” waste dumped in developing countries. Food packaging is a major source of this waste, giving rise to an industry of “environmentally friendly” reusable food and drink containers that’s projected to […]
3 Mins Read It’s not common knowledge, but not all beers out there are vegan. Some brands use finings in the brewing process that are derived from animals, making the final product not 100% free from animal byproducts and therefore unsuitable for vegans. But now, researchers are exploring how upcycled mushrooms can help create animal-free fining agents to […]
4 Mins Read The UK government has outlined plans to ban single-use plastic cutlery, plates and polystyrene cups in England in its “war on plastic”.
3 Mins Read Dole, the world’s biggest fruit and vegetable producer, says it now upcycles 80% of “ugly” fruit in its Thailand farms to fight food waste.
3 Mins Read Tech companies have come under greater pressure in recent months to clean up their act, and now, Samsung wants to stem criticism by launching a new sustainability plan. The South Korean giant says it wants to divert all waste from landfill within the next three years, as well as up the percentage of recycled materials […]
4 Mins Read Hong Kong will finally see a waste-charging scheme come into force, after years of campaigning by the city’s green groups and delays by lawmakers. On Thursday (August 26), the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) approved the new bill, which will require residents to pay for their rubbish—a move aimed at encouraging recycling and waste […]
4 Mins Read Apeel, the startup whose tech enables longer-lasting fresh produce, has just bagged $250 million in a fresh funding round. The round, led by Singapore’s Temasek, will go towards Apeel’s continued expansion across Europe, the U.S. and U.K. It will also help the firm forge new partnerships with suppliers and retailers to “further stamp out food […]
3 Mins Read Yemoja recently unveiled microalgae-derived EPS which is in high demand in cosmetics for its antiaging and rejuvenating properties.
3 Mins Read A new ShipNaked campaign wants to fight packaging waste by asking online shopping giants like Amazon to deliver without boxes or bags.
4 Mins Read Dole has partnered up with London startup Ananas Anam to repurpose its pineapple leaves into Piñatex, the vegan leather alternative.
4 Mins Read Switching just 10% of plastic packaging to reusables could prevent half of the world’s annual ocean plastic waste, a new WEF report says.
3 Mins Read Zero-waste online supermarket Lyfa secured funding to create reusable packaging in its bid to reduce waste from groceries.
3 Mins Read President Biden will soon order the FTC to draft new “right to repair” rules to let consumers fix their own products independently.
3 Mins Read Most of us can agree that we have too much stuff—and it’s killing our planet. These four books might help us become more sustainable.
4 Mins Read As part of its vision to be zero waste and circular, sportswear giant Nike has built a community basketball court in Hong Kong — Shek Lei Grind Court from Nike Grind — derived from 20,000 pairs of used sneakers. The court surface is made of recycled and regenerated materials like plastic, rubber, and leather. Situated […]