Category: compostable packaging

• BIOHM

  

  This company grows building insulation and construction materials from mycelium — the root network of mushrooms — fed on food and agricultural waste, creating carbon-negative, fully biodegradable alternatives to petrochemical construction materials.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  April 7, 2026

  Biodegradable, Compostable, compostable packaging, construction material, Europe, mycellium, UK

  Biodegradable, Compostable, construction, mycellium

• COMPOSTIFY

  

  This company develops home-compostable alternatives that enrich the soil to traditional plant containers that tend to be made from virgin plastic

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 8, 2026

  biopolymers, Compostable, compostable packaging, consumer product, gardening, New Zealand, plastic alternative, plastic-free

  Compostable, compostable pots, gardening

• 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

• 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

• 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

• CLEMENT PACKAGING

  

  This company creates compostable packaging for consumer products.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  April 11, 2025

  bamboo, california, Compostable, compostable packaging, new material, packaging, plastic-free, USA

  bamboo, new material, plastic alternative

• COCOPALLET

  

  This company has created a biodegradable shipping pallet from discarded coconut husks.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 15, 2025

  agricultural waste, coconut waste, Compostable, compostable packaging, Europe, food waste, netherlands, new material, shipping logistics

  Biodegradable, Compostable, Israel, new material, pallet-alternative, pallets, shipping, thermoplastic, wood-pallets

• MI TERRO

  

  This company is creating compostable bioplastics from food waste and other organic waste.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  May 15, 2024

  agricultural waste, biopolymers, california, Compostable, compostable packaging, food waste, new material, packaging, plastic alternative, USA

  agricultural waste, bioplastics, compostable materials, compostable packaging, packaging, plastic alternative

• CRUZ FOAM

  

  This company creates compostable styrofoam made from food waste to replace traditional styrofoam for packaging solutions.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  April 30, 2024

  Biodegradable, california, Compostable, compostable packaging, food waste, new material, seashells, upcycling, USA

  Biodegradable, Compostable, food waste, packaging, seashells

• ECOVATIVE DESIGN

  

  This company is creating biodegradable and compostable alternatives to plastics and other synthetic foams using mushroom technology within the packaging space.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 31, 2024

  agricultural waste, carbon negative, Compostable, compostable packaging, food waste, leather alternative, meat alternative, mycellium, new york, packaging, plastic alternative, USA

  agricultural waste, leather alternative, mushroom, mushroom technology, mycellium, plastic alternative