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

AFN Sustainable Protein

. ‘Our major concern was that we had a significant amount of food waste in India across the globe as well and there wasn’t much of a meaningful solution, where food waste is actually upcycled. There are solutions like composting, or biogas generation, which actually down cycles the product,” Bagaria tells AFN.

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MVMT releases new bracelet made from recycled ocean plastic

AGreenLiving

Well established with a complete supply chain in place, #Tide upcycles ocean waste into a material many businesses have discovered and incorporated into their products. Tide starts at the source by training fishermen to collect and properly sort plastic from the waterways of Southeast Asia. of Product and Design Thomas Moran.

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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

One comprises insect farming companies and waste upcycling companies that want to increase their efficiencies. Because if you don’t, you cannot produce a quality product, you cannot then mass scale it,” Keiran Olivares Whitaker, founder & CEO at Entocycle tells AFN. Who are the customers?

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

Grist

In Europe and Western Asia, drinks have been made out of chicory, chickpeas , dandelion root, figs, grains, lupin beans , and soybeans. Minus also uses fermentation to bring coffee-like flavors out of “upcycled pits, roots, and seeds.”