Category: upcycling

• 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

• EXCESS MATERIALS EXCHANGE

  

  This company offers a marketplace on which on which companies can exchange their excess materials with each other, thereby reducing waste and encouraging re-use and repurpose.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 25, 2024

  artificial intelligence, digital platform, Europe, netherlands, online marketplace, Re-use, resource optimization, software, traceability, upcycling

  artificial intelligence, digital passports, resource matchmaking, software, upcycle

• BANANATEX

  

  This company is creating a biodegradable fabric out of banana plants.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 24, 2024

  banana, banana plants, Biodegradable, clothing, fashion, new material, philippines, reforestation, switzerland, textiles, upcycling, vegan textile

• MADE OF AIR

  

  This company transforms wood waste and transform them into carbon-negative thermoplastics that can be used for various applications, and saves carbon dioxide emissions from being released into the environment.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 24, 2024

  biochar, carbon negative, carbon sequestration, Europe, germany, plastic alternative, thermoplastic, upcycling, wood waste

  biochar, carbon negative, carbon sequestration, germany, thermoplastic, wood waste

• AEROPOWDER

  

  This company is making high-quality insulation materials from surplus feathers obtained from the poultry industry.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 23, 2024

  Biodegradable, Europe, feathers, insulation material, packaging, textiles, UK, upcycling, waste supply chain

  Biodegradable, insulation material, thermal packaging material, used feathers

• SHELLMET

  

  This company is repurposing wasted scallop shells from the seafood industry and making durable helmets with the new material.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 23, 2024

  japan, new material, seashells, upcycling

  helmet, new material, recycled plastic, seashell helmet, seashells, waste shells

• SUGA

  

  This company creates yoga mats from discarded wet suits that would otherwise end up in landfill.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 23, 2024

  california, consumer product, neoprene, USA, wetsuits

  neoprene, recycled neoprene, recycled wetsuits, upcycling

• GOODR

  

  This company is a surplus food management platform that leverages blockchain technology to connect businesses with surplus food with people in need, thereby reducing food waste and combating hunger.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 23, 2024

  B corp, digital, digital platform, food rescue, food upcycling, food waste, georgia, logistics, reduce, USA, waste infrastructure, waste supply chain

  bcorp, digital platform, excess food supply chain, food insecurity, surplus food distribution system, surplus food management

• ATKO PLANNING

  

  This company rescues surplus leather and leather scraps and develops leather materials including leather fiber, leather spun yarn and leather textiles.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 23, 2024

  Asia, fashion, korea, leather, leather alternative, leather upcycling, luxury fashion, pre-consumer textile, textiles, upcycling

  leather alternative, leather scraps, leather yarn, recycled leather, recycled suede, upcycled leather