Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Corporate partnership accelerator program seeks innovations from startups in alternative proteins, waste plastics recycling, and prevention of food loss and waste. Greentown Labs is home to more than 100 startups and has supported more than 300 startups since the incubator’s founding in 2011. SOMERVILLE, Mass.,

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Alkemy Environmental (Somerville, MA) recycles industrial waste streams into structural-grade lightweight concrete aggregates. As the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, Greentown Labs brings together startups, corporates, investors, policymakers, and many others with a focus on scaling climate solutions.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 18, 2021

May 18, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) have selected six startups for the KAITEKI Challenge that are innovating in the areas of alternative proteins, plastics, and packaging. Somerville, Mass., billion in funding.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 12, 2022

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Canada) utilizes point-source CO2 and mineralizes it with waste materials to create supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that can be used in building materials. Carbon is a waste product, suspended in the air we breathe,” said Pat Sapinsely, Managing Director of the Urban Future Lab.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Greentown Labs is the largest climatetech incubator in North America, headquartered in Somerville, Mass., In announcing its expansion to Houston, Greentown Labs was thrilled to share its inaugural Houston Founding Partners: Chevron , NRG Energy and Reliant Energy , Shell , BHP , Vinson & Elkins , ENGIE North America Inc.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

DrinKicks (Houston, Texas) is a sneaker-themed consumer-products company that is focused on repurposing food waste and recycled materials into sustainable goods such as shoes, sports equipment, and clothing, all while educating consumers on the power of the circular economy. Active Surfaces (Salem, Mass.) With incubators in Somerville, Mass.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 21, 2023

deploys a biorefining platform that upcycles organic waste to fatty-acid biochemicals that can be used in a wide range of applications. “Carbon is a waste product, suspended in the air we breathe,” said Pat Sapinsely, Managing Director of the Urban Future Lab. Capro-X (Ithaca, New York, U.S.)

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that's virtually impossible to recycle. The problem is shared across industries, including in electronics, which make up the world's fastest-growing waste stream. It feels like we’ve moved to this throwaway society.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

More specifically, the program collaborators are uniquely interested in carbontech innovations that are related to: carbon capture, carbon utilization and conversion into value-added products; as well as carbon sequestration and removal; solutions that utilize operational waste streams from heavy industries (e.g., About Greentown Labs.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The initiative seeks submissions from startups whose technologies are creating value from the capture or conversion of carbon waste, with net-zero or negative emissions. SUEZ, headquartered in France, is a global leader in essential environmental services with water, sanitation, waste collection, and recovery activities.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

In addition, the average annual number of weather-related power outages has increased by almost 80% since 2011. According to Climate Central , about 83% of significant reported power outages between 2000 and 2021 in the United States were attributed to weather-related events.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 29, 2019

There are now also some plantations in East African countries like Tanzania, as well as trials for its cultivation in North America. As widely reported, Just certainly had a chequered history in its Hampton Creek days, earning the caustic label in 2017 from Vanity Fair as “America’s favorite scandal-plagued vegan mayo business.”

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2020

So we came out with our company purpose statement in 2011, which says, “We create chemistry for a sustainable future.” ER: We definitely look to BASF as a company that is leading the charge in this area, and I think the fact that you can point to something from 2011 very much underlines that that is the case.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that's virtually impossible to recycle. The problem is shared across industries, including in electronics, which make up the world's fastest-growing waste stream. For Ed Boyd, an inside look at a recycling plant was a wake-up call.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that’s virtually impossible to recycle. The problem is shared across industries, including in electronics, which make up the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. It feels like we’ve moved to this throwaway society.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that’s virtually impossible to recycle. The problem is shared across industries, including in electronics, which make up the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. It feels like we’ve moved to this throwaway society.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In rural West Virginia, largely hidden among steep hills, stands a $255 million facility designed to transform fracking waste into freshwater and food grade quality salts. Laden with heavy metals, chemicals and other contaminants, this waste frequently exhibits levels of radioactivity hundreds of times the safe limits set by regulators.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. has orchestrated collaborative initiatives targeting everything from plastics to food waste and bringing together large companies, NGOs and policymakers.

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