Category: upcycling

• 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

• MYRO

  

  This company is offering personal hygiene products in reusable containers.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  May 15, 2024

  california, new york, personal hygiene, Re-use, refill, reusable packaging, USA, wood waste

  personal care, personal hygiene, refillable, reusable packaging

• URBAN MACHINE

  

  This company is utilizing AI to make lumber waste more easily reused for reclaimed wood purposes.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  May 7, 2024

  artificial intelligence, california, construction material, reclaimed wood, robotics, upcycling, USA, wood waste

  artificial intelligence, reclaimed wood, robotics, upcycle, wood waste

• 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

• BARNANA

  

  Food upcycling B-corp creating new supply chain by diverting bananas that do no meet export standards away from landfills, thereby creating new revenue streams and reducing waste.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 31, 2024

  B corp, banana, california, food industry, food product, food rescue, food upcycling, food waste, logistics, social enterprise/b corp, surplus agriculture, upcycling, USA, waste supply chain

  banana snack, food product, food upcycling, rescue food, surplus agriculture, surplus food management, surplus supply chain, upcycled food

• 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

• RENEWAL MILL

  

  Food upcycling company that utilizes byproducts from other food manufacturing processes and transforms them into high quality ingredients, thereby creating new revenue streams and reducing waste.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 31, 2024

  california, food product, food upcycling, food waste, upcycling, USA

  food upcycling, food waste

• PHOOL

  

  This company tackles the problem of flower waste and repurposes spent temple flowers and repurposes them into incense, paper and water colors.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 31, 2024

  Asia, flower upcycling, habitat restoration, household design, incense sticks, india, India, social enterprise/b corp, upcycling, waste recovery, waste solutions, waste supply chain

  incense sticks, India, repurposed flowers, social enterprise, temple flowers, upcycled flowers

• ELVIS & KRESSE

  

  This British company repurposes used fire hydrants into luxury handbags and other luxury items.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 31, 2024

  Europe, fire hose upcycling, luxury fashion, social enterprise/b corp, UK, upcycling

  fire hoses, luxury fashion, luxury handbags

• 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