Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But pleather and vegan leather bring their own problems as well, as these alternatives are usually made from plastics. Plastic pollution is part of what pushed Lina M. The post SpadXTech Aims to Disrupt Vegan Leather Market with Plastic-free, Carbon-negative Material first appeared on Greentown Labs.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2023

Greentown Go Move 2022 brought BASF and Magna together with five climatetech startups to advance solutions that decarbonize the automotive industry’s life-cycle impact. A group of experienced startup mentors and industry experts, including from BASF and Magna, provided valuable guidance to the cohort’s founding teams.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

#Greentown10 is a celebration of the startups, partners, ecosystem collaborators, and other climate champions who have worked together over Greentown’s first decade. Both startups and corporates have enormous roles to play in tackling the climate crisis, and their impact is most significant when they work together.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 18, 2021

May 18, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) have selected six startups for the KAITEKI Challenge that are innovating in the areas of alternative proteins, plastics, and packaging. Somerville, Mass.,

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 16, 2021

A new philanthropic marketing startup based out of Austin, Texas is providing companies with a way to advertise while doing good. FreeWater provides beverages in eco-friendly, BPA-free packaging paid for by the ads printed directly onto the bottles. Beverages are packaged in aluminum bottles or paper cartons.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 10, 2021

A new plastic made from plant proteins could replace single-use plastics made from fossil fuels. Xampla, a startup that originated at the University of Cambridge, makes the new material from plant protein that is a byproduct of agriculture. We have proved it’s possible to solve the single-use plastics problem.”

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And reduce plastic waste, while we’re at it? In addition to being far more sustainable, the MettleWood I-beam is 80 percent lighter and estimated to be about 50 percent cheaper, according to the startup. Another possible application of this insulative technology is to replace polystyrene packaging, Cable says.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

Two ways P&G is working toward its packaging goals. We'll debate "Reusable Packaging in the Age of Contagion," "Can Recycled Plastic Survive Low Oil Prices" and "Repair, Resilience and Customer Engagement." Why global engagement is essential to sustainable supply chains. Intel's water world (16:25). EDT May 14. EDT May 18.

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GreenBiz

MAY 22, 2020

Here are some highlights from this week's precursor, which featured an interview on the viability of reusable packaging, and two panel sessions — one on the future of recycled plastics in an age of cheap oil and one on the role of repair in circular economy strategies. The future of risk assessment.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021. For companies with sustainable packaging goals, 2025 is fast approaching. That’s the year when many have pledged to become zero waste, or to use 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging. Loop isn’t the only reusable packaging platform seeing strong growth.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2021

One key area where this can have an impact is plastic recycling. Around 90 percent of plastic used is not recycled — and reducing this number is crucial to achieving SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production. . Promote good health and wellbeing.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

ACCEL is an accelerator from Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space (BGS) that’s dedicated to bolstering BIPOC-led startups as they develop critical climatetech solutions by offering access to funding, networking connections, resources, and opportunities that structural inequities put out of reach.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

How can startups and corporations work together to power the transition to a more circular economy? . That’s the question that kicked off the Circularity Challenge, a six-month Greentown Launch program designed to accelerate partnerships between startups and corporates to bring innovative technologies to market. At the Feb.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. Multilayer plastics—think bubble wrap, meat packaging, and other pre-sealed food packaging—are difficult to recycle, which means they end up in landfills or incinerators. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 31, 2020

Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life Holly Secon Mon, 08/31/2020 – 01:00 A circular economy is urgently required for the shift to a more sustainable planet. This GreenBiz tradition began in 2012 at its VERGE events, offering a venue where startups make a 2.5-minute

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 25, 2021

At Clean Energy Trust , we have seen some truly impressive startups grow into successful businesses and are proud to have invested in some of the most promising ones. Are they motivated by an above-market salary or benefits package? Many cleantech startups have strong organizational alignment on environmental impact.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

The London-based startup also manufactures a biodegradable alternative to wood-based sheet materials using byproducts from food production. . The startup’s process works at room temperature, is 1,000 times more energy-efficient than the production of synthetic plastic fibers, has only water as a byproduct and uses no hazardous chemicals. .

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A view inside a ChemFORWARD display of dimethyl phthalate, used in plastics. Warner, a distinguished research fellow at synthetic biology startup Zymergen. These include ortho-phthalate plasticizers found in flexible toys, UV-blocking oxybenzone in sunscreens and halogenated flame retardants in electronics. "The

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Digital innovations such as Tidal’s that provide better insights into fish farming operations — alongside new recirculating aquaculture system designs and purification advances, such as the "nanobubbles" generators designed by startup Moleaer — are contributing to rising levels of speculative activity.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 13, 2021

The plastic problem is well documented around the globe, from the petroleum needed to produce it to the fact that every piece of plastic ever manufactured is still on the planet in some form — and will be for generations. On a mission to eliminate plastic from kitchen and bathroom products, the recently launched U.K.-based

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 8, 2020

million from investors as a startup just two years ago, Nimble wasted no time jumping into the tech market with the Bottle Case — a cell phone case made out of 100% recycled plastic bottles. CEO Ross Howe summarized the vision by saying, “Our oceans are drowning in plastic.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

The startup space is buoyant with cash and targeting a blend of retail, direct-to-consumer and food service channels, playing with ingredients such as kelp, koji and mung beans. If the sourcing is done carefully, fake fish also should be devoid of the mercury and microplastics that can stem from ocean plastic pollution. New Wave Foods.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Our 180+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Firm founded by ex-marketing director of Hello Fresh says onus is on startups to encourage sustainable consumption. Wild deodorant comes in sleek, monochrome packaging, and is available through both a flexible subscription service, with the product designed to fit through letterboxes, and via standard one-off online purchasing. "It

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 18, 2021

In Greentown Labs’ earliest days , when a ragtag group of startups had banded together to split the costs of rent and resources, the entrepreneurs faced a roadblock: they really, really needed Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS software to design and build their climate technologies, and this critical tool was outside of their financial reach.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Product development teams at all four companies are part of a "pioneer community" brought together and coordinated by an aptly named startup Paboco , shorthand for "paper bottle company." The Carlsberg designs, for example, use a thin plastic film for the inner barrier. Some early versions are in the hands of consumers.).

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 10, 2020

SOMERVILLE, Mass. , LONDON and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands , March 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Greentown Labs , the largest cleantech startup incubator in North America , today announced Unilever as its newest Terawatt-level Partner—the highest level of engagement with the startup community. The 100,000 sq.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 10, 2020

SOMERVILLE, Mass. , LONDON and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands , March 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Greentown Labs , the largest cleantech startup incubator in North America , today announced Unilever as its newest Terawatt-level Partner—the highest level of engagement with the startup community. The 100,000 sq.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 29, 2022

Elemental Excelerator is working overtime to cultivate climate tech business solutions — and supporting policies that level the playing field for climate tech startups to compete against dirty, conventional technologies and remove barriers to rapid scaling — so that Hawaii can truly lead a clean economy revolution, not only in word but in deed.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Crystal-clear liquid flows from the array into big plastic drums, which chemists wheel toward a tall metal still. The startup began selling its spirits this month to bars and restaurants around New York City, after years of development in the lab. They provide a really important revenue stream for budding startups.”.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 1, 2023

This is a space ripe for innovators like Planet FWD Founder & CEO Julia Collins and Better Packaging Co. They prove that small changes like swapping out a couple ingredients in a meal and big efforts like fishing the oceans for plastic waste can add up to real climate impact. For Better Packaging Co.,

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

Every year, an additional 8 million tonnes of plastic is deposited into the ocean. While ocean clean-up, a reactive solution, is helping to restore the ecosystem, it will be in vain if plastic going into the ocean is not diverted. Partnering with startups like BlueBenu is one option to consider.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In the past, mankind moved from wood to metal to plastics, the next evolution is polymers. The trucks could haul packaged consumable goods in reusable or biodegradable packaging and we could see a truly sustainable supply chain?—?all These skills aid you in life and in a startup. Ask a Climate Innovator?—?Haley

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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

While the Basel Convention criminalized transboundary movement of hazardous waste (of which most electronics are classified) to limit some human health implications of electronics waste streams, plastic waste is another story, only recently having been included in the convention.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. From relative giants such as Tesla to newcomers like startup Rivian and Chanje, we stand by this list.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

What role will bioplastics and other bio-based materials play in the shift away from nonrenewable materials for packaging and products? . Prediction: Biomaterials will be a hot topic in 2021 as companies seek alternatives to virgin plastics and race towards 2025 goals.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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