Category: plastic waste

• RIDWELL

  

  This company upcycles natural by-products into vegan beauty products, thereby keeping useful ingredients from landfills.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  April 15, 2025

  B corp, batteries, oregon, plastic diversion, plastic waste, Re-use, recycle, reuse backend infrastructure, subscription service, USA, waste infrastructure, waste pickup, waste recovery, waste solutions, waste sorting

  batteries, hard to recycle, styrofoam, subscription service, trash pick up service, waste infratructure, waste management

• GREEN TOYS

  

  This company uses recycled milk jugs to create children’s toys

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  March 18, 2024

  california, plastic waste, recycle, toys, USA

  milk jugs, plastic waste, recycle, toys

• ROTHY’S

  

  This lifestyle brand creates a novel “yarn” using single-use plastic bottles and turns them into artfully-designed shoes and other lifestyle products

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 31, 2024

  california, fashion, luxury fashion, plastic upcycling, plastic waste, plastic waste, shoes, take back, upcycling, USA

  3D knitting, plastic bottle waste, plastic waste, shoes, takeback

• VAN PLESTIK

  

  This company designs and develops 3D printing solutions that transform plastic waste (contaminated plastic) into unique, high-quality and affordable objects.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 31, 2024

  3D printers, Europe, furniture, household design, netherlands, plastic upcycling, plastic waste, recycle, upcycling

  3D printers, contaminated plastic, plastic recycling, plastic upcycling, plastic waste

• RECOVER BRANDS

  

  This company offers clothing and other accessories created from recycled bottles and recycled textile fibers, thereby creating a new material from post-consumer waste.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 25, 2024

  clothing, clothing recycling, clothing upcycling, fashion, new material, north carolina, plastic waste, plastic waste, post-consumer textile waste, recycle, take back, upcycling, used clothes

  clothing, post consumer textile waste, takeback

• HAMILTON PERKINS COLLECTION

  

  This upcycling company creates beautiful lifestyle products from recycled materials

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 25, 2024

  billboard vinyls, consumer product, fashion, luxury fashion, online marketplace, pineapple, pineapple fiber, plastic waste, plastic waste, upcycling

• THOUSAND FELL

  

  This company creates recyclable sneakers out of biodegradable, waste materials and/or recycled materials and has a take-back program to ensure that used sneakers are re-integrated or repurposed or else re-used.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 19, 2024

  coconut waste, Compostable, corn waste, fashion, food waste, new york, plastic waste, recycle, rubber, shoes, sugarcane biomass, take back, upcycling, USA

  compostable materials, corn waste, plastic bottles, recyclable shoes, recycled materials, shoes, takeback

• BYFUSION

  

  This company rescues plastic and even nonrecyclables and upcycles them into building blocks to be used for temporary and permanent structures.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 11, 2024

  california, construction material, modular, plastic diversion, plastic diversion system, plastic waste, plastic waste, upcycling, USA