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Mycocycle uses mushrooms to upcycle old tires and construction waste

TechCrunch: Climate

The startup's fungi use their mycelium to consume oil-based rubbers and plastics, creating new bio-based materials in the process. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

The accelerator will advance six startups’ climatetech solutions and foster potential development, investment, and commercial partnerships with Saint-Gobain Somerville, Mass. upcycles carbon-negative biowaste for use in reducing the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint in typical plastic products.

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

AFN Sustainable Protein

Indian insect biotech startup Loopworm has raised $3.4 Loopworm is the first Indian technology startup to farm insects for animal feed. The investment is Omnivore’s second investment under its OmniX Bio initiative, which backs early-stage agrifood life science startups. . million tonnes of food per year.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q3 2022

Greentown Labs

Fourteen startups joined our community in the third quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a carbontech solution for aluminum manufacturing, an AI platform for tracking scope 1 and scope 3 vehicle emissions, and waste-biomass-turned-biochar for replacing cement. Manufacturing.

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Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into vanilla flavoring

AGreenLiving

Scientists have converted plastic bottles into vanilla flavoring using genetically engineered bacteria. According to research published in the journal Green Chemistry , genetically engineered E-Coli bacteria has been used to convert terephthalic acid (TA) from plastic waste into vanillin.

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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. Since the liners use recycled PET, there are no virgin plastic components to the coolers either.

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The Carbon to Value Initiative Announces Year Two Startup Cohort for Carbontech Accelerator Program

Greentown Labs

Climatetech leaders from Fluor, the Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA Welcome Eight Startups to the Initiative. Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Canada) utilizes point-source CO2 and mineralizes it with waste materials to create supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that can be used in building materials.