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Recycled components and plastic-free packaging: Samsung powers up 2025 sustainability plan

Business Green

All Samsung phones are to feature recycled materials from 2025, the company has pledged as part of a new set of wide-ranging sustainability targets. We believe that everyone has a role to play in providing innovative solutions that protect the planet for generations to come.

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BIPOC Entrepreneurs Present their Climatetech Solutions at ACCEL Showcase

Greentown Labs

Active Surfaces is working to make these innovations possible. DRINKICKS DrinKicks is developing sneakers made from food waste and recycled materials in an effort to engage the sneaker-enthusiast community in circularity. It’s been a very good acceleration pathway.” Its co-founders are Lina M. González and Connor Crawford.

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Cheap, durable and natural furniture from PlayWood

AGreenLiving

PlayWood also incorporates scrap from other industries in an effort to upcycle waste. Where typical furniture takes a hard, inflexible form, PlayWood relies on an innovative 3D connector that provides a modular element. Inasmuch, they are environmentally friendly and recyclable after a long life.

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How Dell and Levi's envision the future of repair

GreenBiz

Paul Dillinger, head of global product innovation at Levi Strauss & Co., There’s got to be a better design solution to address end of life, how [products] can easily be refurbished, upcycled and disassembled. With that mindset, Dillinger led the design of Levi’s innovative Wellthread shirts, jackets and jeans, which launched in 2015.

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XpreSole Panto waterproof boots are made from coffee grounds

AGreenLiving

With this in mind, sustainable shoe brand Ccilu has developed a line of waterproof boots, called XpreSole Panto, made with recycled coffee grounds and other eco-friendly materials. Called XpreSole Panto, the boots are available in high-top or low-top options made with upcycled coffee grounds collected from local coffee shops in Taiwan.

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Managing Food Waste in the Office

Green Business Bureau

Explore ideas that will take into consideration effective packaging, smart servicing and records of past events. Just as you have blue bins for recyclable materials, brown bins are meant only for organic materials. A solution is to include the goal to reduce food waste while planning the food menu. Get a brown bin.

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How Dell and Levi's envision the future of repair

Business Green

Paul Dillinger, head of global product innovation at Levi Strauss & Co., It's called on all of my home [economics] skills, all of my ability to prototype and ideate using just the materials around my house, which has been a really exciting exercise," Dillinger said. works hands-on with denim, zippers and buttons.