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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! The startup is part of ACCEL Year 2.

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PANGEA Movement’s Eco-jacket uses 100% recycled materials

AGreenLiving

Although using recycled materials exempts virgin materials from the process, the microplastics released during washing are still a problem, so the jacket also comes with a microfiber-trapping laundry bag. The company not only fixates on upcycling, but the factory is solar-powered , and employees are treated ethically.

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The Ocean Cleanup Bags Its First Lot of Trash

Unsustainable

The nets were also limited in their ability to pick up microplastics, which are formed by larger pieces breaking down in the water. The current U-shaped boom is the latest design which allows fish and other sea animals to swim underneath, while it captures floating plastic debris ranging in size from microplastics to discarded tires.

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Google becomes retroactively carbon-neutral

AGreenLiving

“We’ll do things like pairing wind and solar power sources together and increasing our use of battery storage,” said chief executive Sundar Pichai, according to BBC. Google first became carbon-neutral in 2007. The goal is for all of Google’s offices and data centers to run on carbon-free energy by 2030.

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Fifty Shades of Greta

Green Market Oracle

Through his passion for the outdoors, he witnessed the effects of microplastic pollution on the environment. When Fionn was in high school, he invented a new method of extracting microplastics from the water using his own version of ferrofluid, a liquid developed by NASA. Earth is our home," she says. "It Everything we need.