New Campaign Urges Amazon To Ditch Packaging and ‘ShipNaked’ Instead
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.
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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 […]
4 Mins Read Zero-waste vegan beauty brand Mono Skincare has debuted what it claims is the world’s first dissolvable skincare pastille.
4 Mins Read REN’s zero-waste sample tube features an aluminum reclosable break-off nozzle without the need for mini plastic caps.
4 Mins Read Founders behind the dairy-free ice cream brand Fravocado, have launched an online frozen food shop Mighty Plants to tackle food waste.
10 Mins Read Author J.B. MacKinnon shares the idea behind his new thought-provoking book, The Day the World Stops Shopping.
4 Mins Read Apeel, the company whose technology slows down the rate of spoilage of fresh fruit, has several big-name partnerships under its belt. Currently, the California food waste fighting startup works with major produce suppliers like Del Monte and Nature’s Pride to protect avocados and mangoes from going bad. But they don’t want to stop there. Instead, […]
3 Mins Read Lomi, the new home food waste machine launched by compostable phone case brand Pela, has managed to attract more than US$6.8 million from over 18,000 backers through its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. The kitchen countertop appliance turns food scraps, cloth and bioplastics into soil within just 24 hours. Pela’s crowdfunding campaign for its latest product, Lomi, […]
5 Mins Read California-based anti-food waste startup SAVRpak has closed US$3.5 million in its Series A financing led by celebrity investor Mark Cuban, after co-founder Greg Maselli’s took a shot with an email pitch. Formerly known as Soggy Food Sucks, SAVRpak’s solution helps absorb moisture in food containers to keep insides fresh and crisp, preventing spoilage and food […]
3 Mins Read Fortuna Cools, a Philippines-based agritech startup making sustainable coolers out of coconut fibre, has closed its round of seed funding. The company is backed by ADB Ventures, the impact investment arm of Asian Development Bank, and will be using the funds to ramp up production of its biodegradable plastic-free alternative to traditional styrofoam containers. Manila-headquartered […]
5 Mins Read Razer, a billion-dollar global lifestyle brand for gamers, recently launched a new US$50 million Razer Green Fund and its very first green investment is in Bambooloo, a Singapore-based zero waste home goods brand focused on greening toilet paper. As part of its plan to support sustainable startups, Singaporean-American tech firm Razer has launched a green […]
3 Mins Read Plant-based food technology startup Outcast Foods, which transforms unattractive produce into nutrient-dense foods and bills itself as ‘the world’s first sustainable supplement company’ has recorded a whopping 3,872% in year-on-year online sales growth, which they attribute to increasing consumer interest in reducing food waste and shopping with sustainability in mind. Canadian-based Outcast Foods takes “misfit” […]
4 Mins Read Edible peel startup Apeel, which works to eliminate food waste and plastic pollution, has acquired AI hyperspectral imaging tech company ImpactVision, and by integrating this new tech into their application systems at supplier locations around the world, they will be able to help food suppliers and retailers in extending the shelf life of their fresh […]
3 Mins Read China has enacted new legislation to combat food waste, banning online binge-eating videos and fines for diners who leave behind excessive uneaten food at restaurants. According to Chinese state media, the new policy is aimed at fostering a “resource-conserving” society. It comes as countries around the world are collectively ramping up efforts to tackle the […]
3 Mins Read Beauty Brand Izzy has recently launched what it claims as the “world’s first zero-waste mascara” as the company regrinds and melts down the applicators and wipers after use to make new ones, and even the water that collects from the triple cleaning process is reused rather than unneccesarly releasing it into the oceans. New York-based […]
5 Mins Read Packaging is one of the biggest contributors of plastic waste – but our modern society just can’t seem to cut it out. Living packaging-free is no easy feat, with almost every product on supermarket shelves, at clothing stores and in our online deliveries all coming in either plastic bags, wraps, envelopes, paper parcels or cardboard […]