Eco Packaging

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Delivery Hero will provide local restaurants with plant-based and PFAS-free eco-packaging alternatives.
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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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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 online supermarket Lyfa secured funding to create reusable packaging in its bid to reduce waste from groceries.
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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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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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REN's zero-waste sample tube features an aluminum reclosable break-off nozzle without the need for mini plastic caps.
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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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Unilever embraces sustainability with the launch of a CO2 recycling laundry capsule and recyclable toothpaste tubes for its oral care brands.
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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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Food delivery giant Deliveroo has partnered with circular food packaging startup barePack France in an effort to reduce its single-use packaging by giving customers an opportunity to order their food in reusable containers with sixty…
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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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The amount of plastic each individual in Japan produces is ranked second largest in the world with the country discarding a total of 9,150,000 tons of plastic waste annually and to tackle this, Japanese supermarket Aeon has partnered with…
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