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Solving The Plastic Packaging Problem Starts With Rethinking Materials, Says New Report
Techstyle and agrifood innovation platform The Mills Fabrica has released a new report detailing the role and impact of single-use plastic packaging in the fashion and food sectors. Rethink Packaging is designed to act as a guide for!-->…
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Meet The Woman Fighting Single-Use Plastic In Hollywood
Sheila Morovati, founder and president of non-profit Habits of Waste is on a mission. She wants to prevent the continued use of single-use plastic in the media and take representation of the material out of the limelight. By denormalising!-->…
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Chile’s New Single-Use Plastic Ban Sets a New Bar for Global Waste Initiatives
Now in effect across Chile, a single-use plastic ban on cutlery and straws is the beginning of the country's shift to a full environmental mandate aimed at removing plastic from its waste stream.
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The 6 Most Exciting Packaging Startups Helping Solve The Plastic Waste Crisis
We zone in on six packaging startups from all over the world who are at the forefront of fighting plastic waste with their solutions.
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Investors Back Seaweed Packaging Innovators As Plastic Waste Crisis Creates Demand For Sustainable Alternatives
As consumer dissatisfaction with traditional plastic packaging grows stronger and as the global plastic waste crisis continues to worsen daily, a slew of new material science startups are looking to algae for solutions, and investors are!-->…
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The Week In Food Tech: MEAT ZERO Heads to Singapore, Peas of Heaven Raises €2.7M, and Billie Eilish Unveils Vegan Chocolate
Just a few short years ago, it was unusual to get more than a handful of stories each week about meat analogues, dairy alternatives, and other alt and/or vegan foods. Nowadays, the opposite is true. In fact, there are so many developments!-->…
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Brazil’s Future Farm Gets $58M To Expand Vegan Meat Range & Develop Plant-Based Milk, Butter
Brazil-based alt-meat startup Future Farm has closed a $58 million round of Series C funding to make its plant-based meat analogues more widely available and also add new products to its roster. BTG and Rage Capital co-led the round, which!-->…
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Meet 18 Startups Transforming Food, From Fungi Protein To Cultured Breast Milk
As our food system continues to battle challenges brought on by climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, innovation in the food tech startup world has been racing to come up with disruptive solutions. From gut-health to upcycled!-->…
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Exclusive: Starbucks Launches Global Reusable Campaign, Will Offer Up To 2 Million Cups Across APAC
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!-->…
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Reusable Containers Aren’t Always Better For The Environment Than Disposable Ones: New Research
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!-->!-->!-->…
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Love Takeout, Hate Waste? This App Helps You Find Restaurants With Sustainable Packaging
Jybe is a new review app to helping users find out which restaurants use sustainable packaging for food takeout and online deliveries.
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World’s First Sustainable Packaging Sourcing Marketplace Launches with Oversubscribed Pre-Seed
SourceGreenPackaging.com, the world’s first global B2B marketplace dedicated to sourcing forevers plastics free packaging products, has just launched with an oversubscribed pre-seed round. The company, based in Hong Kong and addressing an!-->…
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Industrially Compostable Packaging Leader Vegware To Expand Across North America After Novolex Acquisition
Vegware, a British biobased industrially compostable food packaging company, has been acquired by American packaging firm Novolex. While it will be joining Novelex's sustainable packaging subsidiary Eco-Products, Vegware’s label will!-->…
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Food Waste Fighting Startup Apeel Bags $250M In Temasek-Led Round
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.!-->…
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New Campaign Urges Amazon To Ditch Packaging and ‘ShipNaked’ Instead
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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Foodpanda’s Parent Company To Offer Restaurants 10M Units Of Eco Packaging By 2022
Foodpanda's parent company Delivery Hero will provide local restaurants with plant-based and PFAS-free eco-packaging alternatives.
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Just Salad’s Largest-Ever Capital Raise to Double Locations, Scale Reusable Bowl Program
The healthy fast-casual restaurant chain Just Salad will use new capital to scale its reusable bowl program and double its restaurants.
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World-First: McDonald’s U.K. To Pilot Reusable Coffee Cup Scheme
McDonald’s collaborates with zero-waste delivery platform Loop to unveil a pilot returnable coffee cup scheme across six UK outlets.
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Zero Waste E-Supermarket Raises Pre-Seed To Expand Reusable Packaging For Groceries
Zero-waste online supermarket Lyfa secured funding to create reusable packaging in its bid to reduce waste from groceries.
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Your Next Grocery Haul Will Have These New Eco-Score Food Labels
Next time you go to the supermarket, you might find "traffic light" style eco-scores on food products to indicate its environmental footprint.
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Indie Beauty Pioneer Credo Phases Out Single-Use Plastic, PFAS, and Other Package Toxins
Credo Beauty has phased out single-use products and has eliminated brands that use PFAS and other toxins in its packaging.
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