Category: upcycling

• ICTYOS

  

  This company upcycles fish skin into a leather-like material for luxury goods.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 18, 2024

  Europe, fish skins, food upcycling, france, leather, luxury fashion, new material, restaurant food waste, upcycling

  fish skin, leather, luxury fashion, restaurant waste, upcycling

• BOTTLETOP

  

  This company creates upscale bags made from sustainable and zero waste materials like upcycled aluminum ringpulls, among others.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 18, 2024

  Africa, consumer product, Europe, humanium metal, leather, luxury fashion, social enterprise/b corp, uganda, UK, upcycling

  acai berry seeds, aluminum pulls, humanium metal, luxury fashion, social enterprise, zero deforestation leather

• MOMO PENCIL

  

  This company produces high-quality pencils made from recycled newspapers.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 18, 2024

  Africa, consumer product, kenya, newspaper, social enterprise/b corp, upcycling

• PAKKA

  

  This company uses waste agricultural biomass to create a range of compostable packaging and compostable tableware solutions.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 18, 2024

  agricultural waste, Asia, Compostable, compostable tableware, food upcycling, food waste, india, sugarcane biomass, upcycling

  agricultural waste, Compostable, compostable tableware, India

• CRIATERRA

  

  This company is developing innovative construction materials that are as strong as concrete and yet are made using a very low amount of energy and can also be easily recycled and reconstructed, thereby enabling circularity.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 17, 2024

  construction material, construction material recycling, construction waste, designed to be remade easily at end of life, energy efficient process, Israel, new material, recycle, upcycling

  asphalt, concrete, construction waste, recycling, upcycling

• 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

• RUGSAL TRADING

  

  This company works to encourage Sierra Leone’s citizens to switch from using wood-based charcoal caused by deforestation to a substitute made from coconut scraps.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 17, 2024

  Africa, charcoal, coconut waste, energy, food waste, sierra leone, upcycling

  coconut

• STONECYCLING

  

  This company creates building materials from upcycled waste from construction sites.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 17, 2024

  construction material, construction waste, Europe, netherlands, upcycling

• 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

• NEUTRAL FUELS

  

  This company sources used cooking oil from the restaurant industry and creates diesel to be used by the trucking industry.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 11, 2024

  Asia, biofuel, energy, fuel, MIddle East, oil upcycling, UAE, upcycling

  cooking oil, truck fuel