Code Effort: Recycling Cigarette Butts Into Stuffing
After witnessing all the discarded cigarette butts outside his friend's house, Naman Gupta and his brother co-founded the company in 2018. The "Code" in the name of Code Effort refers…
Mint Innovation: Extracting Gold From E-Waste!
Mint Innovation is an urban mining firm that has developed a revolutionary bio-technological solution that allows them to extract and recover precious metals such as gold, palladium, and copper from…
Ecovative Design: Turning Mushrooms Into Styrofoams
Our aim at Ecovative is to grow commonplace materials that support and enrich the spaceship Earth. We're making plant-based meat, biodegradable packaging, and leather-like textiles with our Mycelium Foundry and…
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Cleanup!
Millions of tonnes of plastic reach the oceans each year, with most it spilling out of rivers. Some of this plastic ends up in ocean garbage patches, where it becomes…
The Revolutionary Eco-Products
We produce 220 million plastic bottles every day 80% of which end up in landfills. It takes around approximately 500 years for basic plastic products to decompose and many such…
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Praacheen Vidhaan: Sustainable Ancient Practices With Ease
The startup describes its model as "eco-friendly, handcrafted, cruelty-free, chemical-free, natural, zero waste, and biodegradable." All their products are plant-based, so there’s no animal testing involved, and no added preservatives…
Chopstick Furniture: ChopValue Upcycle Chopsticks
When compared to similar tropical forest species, the durability, high performance, surface features, hardness, and positive environmental footprint of engineered bamboo products stand out the most. Of course, all of…
Could Bananas Become A Green Alternative For Cotton Or Silk?
Banana textiles are not something new. They’ve been around for centuries like Nepal, the Philippines, and Japan. But TexFad is one of the first companies to bring it to Uganda.…
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Speak Earth: One Of Its Kind Zero-Waste Stores In India
The Jaipur-based startup was intentional about making this change and started a zero-waste grocery store, Speak Earth. A venture of two friends, partners with people like dieticians, nutritionists, and passionate…
Biofase: BioPlastics From Avocado Waste
Despite the significant growth in demand, bio-plastics are likely to account for less than 1% of the entire plastic resin market in 2022, according to a market assessment conducted by…
Fruitleather – Now Its Mangoes To Be Vegan Leather
Hugo de Boon (27) and Koen Meerkerk (27) are Rotterdam-based designers who graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy. The duo has positioned themselves in today's circular economy with a…
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Sustainable Gifting Solutions: An Initiative By Anant National University
The team was well aware of the plastic crisis that plagues the presenting business, so they created gift items that are both environmentally friendly and plastic-free. This one step can…
An Innovation That Keeps Your Plants Healthy
Parth used the Internet of Things (IoT) to create a network of sensors that can monitor the soil's temperature, moisture level, and other essential characteristics. The sensors, which are connected…
‘Oxygen Man Of India With A Green Message
Rajesh Kumar Suman, also known as "tree man" or "oxygen man," is a man who carries a banner with the message "Saasein ho rahi hai kam, aao ped lagaye hum"…
The Great Bubble Barrier: Towards A Plastic-Free World
Plastics are directed to the surface and moved to the catchment system by a perforated tube placed crosswise over river bottoms, which creates a current upward and drives them to…