Waste and Recycling / 6 posts found
Yume’s B2B Platform Wages War on Food Waste
This magnificent B2B platforms allows restaurants, charities, cafes and other business users of food to buy excess production. A business model that reduces food waste, gives suppliers an income they would’ve missed out on, and businesses cheaper food than through normal channels. Everyone wins. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Pineapple Leather – Friendlier to the Environment Than PVC
Leather alternatives may not directly harm animals, but they are still environmentally destructive. Enter Pineapple leather – genuinely sustainable, and using the bits of the pineapple that don’t go into adorning your Pina Colada. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Electricity-Free Cooling in Bangladesh Using Plastic Bottles
I love double-impact ideas. Such as this one, which reuses environmentally wasteful empty plastic bottles to cool down houses in Bangladesh without needing electricity. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Food Recycling Start-up Obeo Raises Funds to Enter UK
Dublin start-up Obeo has created a product to help households recycle their waste food in a way that feels less dirty. Great to see they’ve just landed €350,000 to expand into the UK market. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
How A Mexican Startup is Turning Mango Scraps Into Nutritional Gold
EatLimmo is making a success of recycling Mango waste to a nutritious powder that it sells to bakeries and others. An act of food alchemy, taking waste, turning it into something nutritious, and developing a profitable company along the way. Mango is just the start – they are looking at other foodwaste. Based in Mexico, there must be an opportunity to contact them to license the technology to use elsewhere and help their mission profitably? See original article …
Reflow turns plastic waste into 3D print filament to lift waste pickers out of poverty
Amazing idea. Waste mountains are a growing issue in many developing countries. Reflow, a Dutch company, has created a process to turn plastic waste into ethical filament for 3D printing. Place this in, say, Tanzania where shanty towns spring up around waste with poorly paid waste pickers, and a virtuous cycle is created where pickers are better paid to find plastic that can be recycled into ethical filament, the waste mountains reduce, demand for imported material for filament goes down, and local…