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  • SOLE REBELS

    SOLE REBELS

    This company creates shoes using upcycled tires and uses traditional artisan techniques to create comfortable shoes while providing fair wages and empowering local communities.

    Vandana Balakrishnan

    December 17, 2025
    Africa, ethiopia, fashion, shoes, upcycling
    circular shoes, ethiopia, sustainable fashion, sustainable shoes, tire upcycling, upcycling
  • REBUNDLE

    REBUNDLE

    This company provides plant-based braiding hair made from banana fibers to offer a non-toxic, biodegradable, itch-free, and sustainable alternative to traditional plastic-based synthetic hair extensions.

    Vandana Balakrishnan

    December 15, 2025
    banana, Compostable, north carolina, personal hygiene, USA
    Compostable, plastic alternative, zero waste, rebundle, sustainable hair extensions, compostable hair extensions, hair accessories
  • COMMONS

    COMMONS

    This company helps track users’ carbon footprint through an app in order to help them make more sustainable and climate-friendly choices, turning everyday purchases into climate action

    Vandana Balakrishnan

    December 11, 2025
    app, california, carbon footprint education, digital, digital platform, reduce, USA
    carbon footprint, climate action, climate app, digital platform
  • PARCEL HEALTH

    PARCEL HEALTH

    This company is helping the pharmaceutical industry away from using plastic pill bottles to compostable paper pill bottle solutions

    Vandana Balakrishnan

    December 10, 2025
    Compostable, compostable packaging, consumer product, pharmaceutical, USA
    compostable pill bottles, eco-friendly, environment, pharma, recycling, sustainability, sustainable-living
  • LOKA

    LOKA

    This company has created Dry-Erase markers made from 100% reclaimed plastic and are designed with a bio-recyclable additive to break down faster than conventional plastic.

    Vandana Balakrishnan

    October 2, 2025
    biorecyclable additive, consumer product, recycle, USA
    biorecyclable additive, dry-erase markers, recycled plastic, recycling
  • RECORK

    RECORK

    This company has created a recycling program for cork from the wine industry and others and upcycled them into shoe soles and other cork products.

    Vandana Balakrishnan

    September 24, 2025
    Canada, cork recycling, fashion, recycle, shoes, wine
    cork, cork recycling, recork, recycling, upcycling
  • TASTEE TAPE

    TASTEE TAPE

    This company creates edible (=compostable) tape and wraps for serving and storing food items like wraps, burritos, gyros, etc.

    Vandana Balakrishnan

    September 17, 2025
    Compostable, compostable packaging, edible, food industry, food product, New Jersey, packaging, USA
    Compostable, edible, ediblepackaging, edibletape
  • COCOPLUM

    COCOPLUM

    This company upcycles used prescription bottles into frames for sunglasses

    Vandana Balakrishnan

    August 26, 2025
    beauty, california, consumer product, fashion, plastic diversion, plastic waste, prescription bottles, recycle, upcycling, USA
    beauty, fashion, plasticrecycling, upcycledplastic, upcycling
  • SHELLWORKS

    SHELLWORKS

    This company has developed non-plastic and home- compostable alternatives to traditional plastic packaging solutions.

    Vandana Balakrishnan

    August 18, 2025
    beauty, biopolymers, Compostable, compostable packaging, Europe, new material, plastic alternative, UK
    beauty, Compostable, compostable materials, shellworks
  • KEEL LABS

    KEEL LABS

    This company has developed seaweed-based fiber materials to be used in the fashion industry.

    Vandana Balakrishnan

    August 6, 2025
    Compostable, fashion, seaweed, textiles, USA
    natural fiber, seaweed, seaweed textiles, sustainable fashion, textiles
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