Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2019

.” Gelatex Technologies from Estonia has won the Green Alley Award 2019 – an annual prize recognising startups in the circular economy, which has been running since 2014. The textile is seemingly produced without the use of toxins and is “organic and biodegradable.”

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Startups Waste Waste Plastics 178

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 27, 2020

One of the most topical problems in marine pollution is microplastic debris, with an estimated 93 to 236 thousand metric tons of microplastic in our oceans as of 2014. Typically, temporary floating barriers called booms are deployed in ocean clean-up efforts to collect and contain pollutants.

Plastics 114

Plastics Energy Monitor Microplastics Building Energy Monitoring 114

Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The plan is to find a way to recycle the recovered plastics so that the project begins to pay for itself. The next stage of the project involves the recovered plastics, They will be recycled and turned into premium products. The Ocean Cleanup is also ready to scale up System 001/B, but needs more financial backing.

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Plastics Microplastics Solar Energy Monitor Pollution 52

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2021

Launched in 2014, Petite Lucette is a sustainable and circular fashion brand founded by French sisters, Anaïs and Clémence. Petite Lucette further combats the plastic crisis by shipping orders in recyclable boxes with recycled tissue paper. Petite Lucette Launches a Sustainable and Circular Fashion Brand .

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Fashion Organic Sustainability Recycling 148

GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

That’s equivalent to roughly 10 years’ worth of China’s annual emissions as of 2014 — an amount that far surpasses the 90 billion ton avoidance potential of Drawdown’s top-ranked solution, refrigerant management. By empowering women and girls globally, Project Drawdown calculated that we could avoid 120 billion tons of emissions by 2050.

Startups 542

Startups Carbon-negative Plastics Biodegradable 542

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

Patagonia was one of the early adopters of sustainable fashion with organic cotton, recycled materials, fair trade, product repair, and secondhand Worn Wear collection. They are constantly seeking ways to expand as a sustainable brand and are developing a line to be released in Summer 2022 made completely from recycled yarn.

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Fashion Sustainability Ethics Waste 109