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Cement firm CEMEX pours investment into carbon-cutting 'upcycling' start-up

Business Green

Processes developed by Carbon Upcycling Technologies promise to reduce emissions by up to 30 per cent. in Carbon Upcycling Technologies, a Canadian start-up whose innovative processes could reduce the emissions associated with cement making by up to 30 per cent. Global cement giant CEMEX has invested $6.5m

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This collapsible cooler is insulated with upcycled coconut fiber

AGreenLiving

Fortuna Cools recently announced the launch of the Nutshell Cooler, a collapsible cooler made using upcycled coconut fiber sourced from the Philippines and designed to outperform plastic. Read the original here: This collapsible cooler is insulated with upcycled coconut fiber.

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India’s first insect farming startup Loopworm secures $3.4m seed round led by Omnivore, WaterBridge

AFN Sustainable Protein

Titan Capital and leading angel investors including Godrej Agrovet chairman, Nadir Godrej, former R&D and sustainability group head at Indian conglomerate ITC , Sanjiv Rangrass and Akshay Singhal founder and CEO of Log9 Materials also participated in the round. . million tonnes of food waste and agricultural byproducts.

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Announcing Future Food Asia 2020 #FoodIsTheNewCool

Eco-Business

ID Capital announces the fourth edition of Future Food Asia - APAC's premier AgriFoodTech competition, and its title partners Food has always been a necessity, a source of joy and a way of cultural expression. The Future Food Asia 2020 (FFA 2020) conference will help discover out just how 'cool' food is, separating the fad from the future.

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A wave of climate-conscious startups are brewing ‘beanless coffee’

Grist

And in many cases, these coffee-less coffee companies are appealing to sustainability-conscious consumers by offering what they claim to be a more eco-friendly option. Although coffee plantations can be sustainably integrated into tropical forests, growing coffee leads to environmental destruction more often than not.

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BREAKING: Entocycle lands $5m Series A from Climentum, Lowercarbon Capital to roll-out precision ag tech for insect farms

AFN Sustainable Protein

This is unsurprising given the challenges surrounding food waste — a typical feed stream for farmed insects — and the increasing demand for sustainable protein for both animal and human consumption. One comprises insect farming companies and waste upcycling companies that want to increase their efficiencies.

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Lithos Carbon rocks agricultural carbon capture

Business Green

Following the unexpected deaths of two close friends, she took a year to travel and soul search, which ultimately led her to pursue sustainable architecture. The waste dust is what we're upcycling. So my whole family is in Southeast Asia; it's really just my mom, my little sister and me here in the States. And your family?