Category: take back

• UPCIRCLE

  

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

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  April 15, 2025

  agricultural waste, Avocado pit, B corp, beauty, Europe, food upcycling, food waste, olive pits, online marketplace, refill, spent coffee, take back, UK, upcycling

  beauty, coffee, olive pits, refill, skincare, stone fruit pits, takeback, UK, upcycling

• 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

• 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

• RUBY MOON

  

  This company creates fashionable swimwear using a nylon fiber created using rescued fishing nets from the ocean.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 23, 2024

  clothing recycling, compostable packaging, Europe, fishing nets, recycle, recycled nylon, social enterprise/b corp, take back, UK, upcycling

  compostable packaging, econyl, recycled nylon, takeback, upcycled fishing nets

• 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

• NUDIE JEANS

  

  This company has incorporated circularity into the life cycle of its jeans, including resale, repairs and a take-back program.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 18, 2024

  clothing, consumer product, digital platform, Europe, online marketplace, prewashed jeans, Re-use, Repair, Resale, reusable clothing, sweden, take back, used clothes

  prewashed jeans, repairs, Resale, takeback

• FOR DAYS

  

  This fashion company specializes in recyclable fashion, and has created a take-back bag that allows customers to send back clothes in exchange for a customer discount.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 18, 2024

  california, clothing, clothing recycling, digital platform, downcycling, recycle, Resale, take back, USA

  clothing recyclling, downcycling, recycled clothing, Resale, takeback

• TERRACYCLE and LOOP

  

  The circle of it: This company is a waste management company that optimizes disposal and usage of waste for brands and individuals.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 18, 2024

  downcycling, New Jersey, package-free, Re-use, recycle, refill, reusable containers for food services, reusable packaging, reuse backend infrastructure, reverse logistics, take back, USA, waste infrastructure, waste solutions

  downcycling, recycling infrastructure, upcycling, waste management

• MANY MOONS

  

  This company is circular retailer for children’s fashion, offering used options and also a rental model for children’s clothes.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 17, 2024

  clothing, clothing rental, digital platform, New Jersey, online marketplace, Re-use, rental, Resale, reusable clothing, subscription service, take back, USA, used clothes

  baby clothing subscription, Resale, reuse, subscription service, used clothes

• LOOPTWORKS

  

  This company is recovering end-of-life textiles and bringing them back to the economy through circular solutions like recycling, upcycling and downcycling.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 17, 2024

  B corp, clothing, clothing recycling, clothing upcycling, downcycling, oregon, pre-consumer textile, recycle, take back, textiles, upcycling, USA

  bcorp, downcycling, pre-consumer excess textiles, recycling, takeback, upcycling