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Global athleisure brand Lululemon has revealed a new yoga mat and two bags made from Mylo, a mushroom-based vegan leather.
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French startup Vegskin is making sustainable and ethical vegan leather out of bananas and mangoes that would otherwise go to waste.
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Given that traditional crayons can be toxic, a Japanese company is using vegetable waste to make safe organic crayons.
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Kenya is drowning in plastic waste building bricks. Nzambi Matee is turning them into building bricks and pavers.
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Biotech startup FabricNano is tackling the plastic problem with funding from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Harry Potter star Emma Watson.
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One-third of this upcycled rain boot has waste coffee grounds and the other materials include coffee yarn and recycled plastic bottles.
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Footwear brand nat-2 joined forces with textile innovator Remeant on vegan sneakers made from recycled bubble wrap.
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Soil Carbon is developing a tech to capture carbon using fungi as a means to tackle climate change through improved soil.
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Sustainable fashion is all the rage right now. Brands are launching everything from low-carbon vegan kicks to recycled underwear. But the eco sneaker space? It’s booming with innovation, with designers now using waste to create new shoes.…
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Lego which makes most of its bricks from a plastic called ABS, has unveiled a prototype using PET plastic from recycled bottles.
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Material science company Pangaia launched a new range of sustainable activewear made from biobased materials including seaweed.
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New research from nonprofit MII estimates next-gen sustainable materials will make up 3% of the global materials market of US$70 billion.
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Nestlé unveiled a hybrid bottle for Vittel which uses 100% recyclable components to move the French water brand into a sustainable direction.
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Gucci has launched its first range of vegan leather sneakers using a proprietary sustainable material made from wood pulp.
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Xampla, the University of Cambridge spin-off startup, will soon introduce compostable plastic-free sachets and capsules made using a new “vegan spider silk” material. The new polymer material, which is plant-based, scalable and…
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Artists, scientists, and Biodesign Challenge alumni come together in a new book in the emerging role of biotech in sustainability.
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Nike is teaming up with Ananas Anam, the company behind the pineapple leather Pinatex, to launch a new vegan sneaker collection.
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H&M Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Swedish fashion giant H&M, has launched a new virtual fashion collection featuring ten startups and their sustainable fashion designs. The Billion Dollar Collection also shows the estimated…
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Silk is often the first fabric that people think of when it comes to luxury sleepwear. But behind silk is a production process that isn’t as shiny or soft as it looks, with thousands of silkworms often boiled or gassed alive to obtain…
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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…
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According to a new survey conducted by clean manufacturing firm Genomatica in the U.S., even though 86% of consumers believe that sustainability is important, nearly half (48%) are not aware of how or where they can find sustainable…
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