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This Aquatic Robot Is Making a Meal Out of Marine Waste
RanMarine has created the world’s first autonomous marine robot. Utilizing drone technology, it can collect up to 500 kg of plastic waste and destructive biomass each day, harmoniously clearing up and monitoring our waters. ... View More
Empowering Waste Pickers, Building Communities and Closing the Loop
In Latin America, where recycling rates remain below 10%, grassroots circular solutions are slowly beginning to scale — thanks to growing legitimacy, education, organization and protections for informal waste workers, who remain the backbone of the... View More
Moonshot Disability Accelerator Fund on Mission to Close the Disability Wealth Gap
It will begin by funding 10 global accelerators working with early-stage entrepreneurs innovating at the intersection of disability and technology. ... View More
In Our Water- and Climate-Stressed World, There’s No Excuse for Wastewater Going to Waste
Globally, 80% of wastewater is discharged into local environments with minimal or no treatment — water that could be recycled and reused. California-based startup Aquacycl's waste-to-energy solution protects water resources while helping companies ... View More
On Advances Circular Ambitions with Industry-First Shoe Made from Carbon Emissions
The Swiss sports brand has created a supply chain coalition with LanzaTech, Borealis and Technip Energies to transform captured carbon into running shoes. ... View More
‘Rivers Are Life’ Highlights Local River-Restoration Efforts with Potential for Global Impact
The platform highlights and connects individuals who are enacting river-beneficial solutions in their own communities. These 'River Heroes' represent efforts that start on a local scale but create ripple effects that expand beyond. ... View More
Tyre Collective Stops Sneaky Source of Pollution on Road to True Zero-Emission Mobility
EVs might mitigate tailpipe emissions; but cars emit another massive, overlooked form of pollution: Tire particles. The Tyre Collective is spearheading the monitor of tire wear and capturing tire particles at the source. ... View More
This Startup Shows That Tackling the Plastic Crisis May Not Be a Stretch
Great Wrap aims to be a plug-and-play replacement for film wraps for both home and business. It replaces petroleum-based films with a bio-based waste product that, unlike most other bio-based polymers, completely decomposes in within three months. ... View More
Ethical Foods Fund to Support Early-Stage, Values-Based Canadian Companies Driving Future of Sustainable Food
The fund will support sustainable food production via early-stage, values-based food innovators — from the ethical treatment of employees on farms and in factories, to the end of the food production cycle with compostable packaging. ... View More
Technological Ingenuity in African Nations: How They Are Solving the Plastic Waste Challenge
Enabling a circular economy is a complicated challenge that governments, communities and businesses globally are struggling to solve. But as Dow’s work in Africa proves, solutions exist — and success comes when organizations and communities colla... View More
Aleph Farms Joins AIM for Climate with $40M Investment to Advance Cellular Agriculture
Cellular ag technologies address two of the initiative’s four focal areas of innovation for 2022; they could be a key tool for reducing food’s environmental impact and enabling greater food security. ... View More
Like ‘Majik’: This Kenyan Startup Is Producing Clean Drinking Water from Thin Air
Majik Water has found an ingenious way to capture the water from the atmosphere, even in arid regions — harnessing a limitless resource and providing a sustainable solution for thousands of Kenyans, with a goal of reaching 100M people by 2030. ... View More
New Vertical Aquaculture Technology Offers Sustainable, Profitable, Scalable Protein Source
Housed in cargo containers, Atarraya’s ‘plug-and-play,’ AI-powered Shrimpbox delivers up to 10x the ROI of traditional poultry or swine farming, creating new opportunities for farmers — even in landlocked, highly populated areas. ... View More
Aqua Cultured Foods Aims to Eradicate Overfishing with Sushi That Isn’t Sushi
Despite over 80% of the world’s fish stocks being fully exploited or overexploited, global seafood demand is expected to jump another 30% by 2030. Aqua Cultured aims to deliver affordable, nutritious seafood alternatives to allow our oceans to reco... View More
World’s First Robotic Beekeeper on Mission to Repopulate and Protect Global Honeybee Populations
Israeli startup Beewise is reinventing beekeeping through AI technology and automation, and significantly improving pollination and honey yields with its smart, networked hives. ... View More
A Paradigm(ond) Shift: Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Changing the Meaning of Luxury
If you see a lab-grown diamond and a mined diamond side by side, they both elicit the same scintillating awe; but lab-grown gemstones don’t carry the injustices of their mined counterparts. For Aether and Sacet, transparency, ethics and regeneratio... View More
Why Companies Are Lining Up to Meet Consumer Demand for Alternative Leathers
As the prior generation of plastic-based alternatives wanes, a host of new, animal and plant-based options are sprouting up — but challenges remain for unseating conventional leather. ... View More
This Cacao-Free Chocolate Startup Is Ready to Show ‘Big Chocolate’ a Sustainable Way Forward
“Our alternative chocolate is saying that this industry can function in a different way — and it doesn’t have to be stuck doing things it has been doing for 60 years, making billions of dollars a year off the hard work of farmers in West Africa... View More
Circularity Is ‘Izzy’: Meet the Clean Beauty Startup Creating a Blueprint for a Waste-Free Industry
New York-based startup Izzy Zero Waste Beauty is out to show the incredibly wasteful beauty industry that it can mend its wicked ways — vastly reducing its footprint through a hyper-local supply chain and 100% refillable, recyclable products. ... View More
New eCommerce Platform Will Decrease Supply Chain Opacity, One Purchase at a Time
Neuterra enables consumers to make data-driven purchasing decisions and helps brands gain valuable insights on sustainability trends, with the goal of revealing the true cost of consumption and taking an intersectional approach to addressing the clim... View More
