The Circular People

Circularity type- Re-use

  • DABBADROP

    This company is delivering healthy plant-based meals in reusable stainless steel “dabba” tins, thereby reduce food waste and plastic.

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  • NUDE FOODS MARKET

    This company is a zero-waste grocery store, that provides staple grocery store items in reusable containers (not to be confused with a bulk store!) . 

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  • REVINO

    This company is creating a closed-loop system for reusable glass wine bottles, by providing and end-to-end refillable bottle solution

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  • RIDWELL

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

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  • FIXITS

    This company has created a bio-compatible repair material that can be used to fix everyday consumable products from clothing to electronics, thereby increasing the life of the consumable product.

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  • LIQUIDONATE

    This company creates technology enabling retailers to donate returns and excess inventory to nonprofits.

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  • WISDOM SUPPLY COMPANY

    This company provides plastic-free and zero-waste stationary supplies.

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  • MYRO

    This company is offering personal hygiene products in reusable containers.

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  • TULU

    This company is helping set up a sharing economy in closed loop environments, providing on-demand access to home essentials.

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  • GAEASTAR

    This company designs and makes clay cups to replace single-use cups that can be reused and are ultimately biodegradable.

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  • WORN WEAR

    Patagonia’s Worn Wear offers a platform for customers to buy used versions of Patagonia’s gear, thereby encouraging re-use and resale.

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  • DISPATCH GOODS

    This company designs and implements a zero-waste container system for restaurants, thereby minimizing the environmental costs associated with take-out containers while retaining the convenience of takeout services

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  • THE REAL REAL

    Online marketplace for luxury consignment goods, thereby facilitating reuse and resale of high-end clothing and other luxury goods.

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  • MOBIUS MATERIALS

    This company offers a marketplace to buy and sell pre-owned consumer electronics, thereby facilitating reuse of materials that would have likely have not been used again.

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  • TWIG

    This Fintech company provides an online payment wallet that allows consumers to pay using the monetary value of their pew-owned physical items, thereby encouraging reuse and resale.

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  • TROVE

    This company offers a secondary market to brands to creating a platform that enables buy back and resale of the brand’s items, thereby encouraging reuse and resale.

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  • 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.

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  • RHEAPLY

    This company offers a platform that allows enterprises and individuals to exchange and utilize resources efficiently, reducing the friction of re-use.

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  • CLEVER CARBON

    This company aims to raise carbon footprint literacy and create a carbon literate society in order to accelerate reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

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  • BLUE PLANET INK

    This company is producing disappearing ink that can be inserted into standard printers so that paper can be re-used instead of recycled after the ink disappears after use.

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  • AGAIN

    This company provides a cost-efficient way for businesses to use reusable glass packaging rather than sourcing virgin glass bottles.

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  • REATH

    This company provides tracking technology for re-use that can be readily used by brands to understand metrics about reuse to meet their sustainability goals.

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  • WINNOW

    This company develops AI tools to help chefs in large businesses reduce food waste and provides an analytics and reporting platform to drive waste reductions at scale.

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  • BENI

    This company provides a browser extension that makes it easier to purchase a used version of a desired item, thereby decreasing friction related to re-use and resale.

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  • SOJO

    This company provides an app that makes clothing repair accessible, thereby extending the life of clothes derived from the fashion industry.

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  • FAIROWN

    This company enables companies to offer their products as a subscription model, thereby reducing waste and allowing for reuse of raw materials.

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  • TOPUP TRUCK

    This company brings zero waste refillable groceries through a mobile tuck.

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  • CABINET HEALTH

    This company provides plastic-free, compostable and refillable packaging and containers in the healthcare space, thereby minimizing the need for single-use plastics.

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  • EON

    This company provides a digital traceability system for the fashion industry that helps brands identify, track and manage items to encourage resale, recycling and other secondary market capabilities.

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  • CLEAN THE WORLD

    This company collects discarded soap from hospitality partners and creates recycled soap that it cleans and repurposes to distribute to people in need.

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  • NUDIE JEANS

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

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  • 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.

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  • BUNDLEE

    This company offers a rental service for baby clothes, thereby encouraging reuse and bringing back resources to the business.

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  • MANY MOONS

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

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  • RE:DISH

    This company provides infrastructure and software to enable reuse at scale for a range of entities, from schools to restaurants.

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  • THREDUP

    This company makes used clothing more accessible by connecting users to a large online inventory of used clothing and fashion items, thereby encouraging reuse and resale.

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  • LIMELOOP

    This company reduces or eliminates the frictions associated with reusable packaging by creating a system for reusable packaging that will be returned to the brand to be used over and over again.

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  • RENT THE RUNWAY

    Pic Credit: Bloomberg The circle of it: This company is an e-commerce platform that allows users to rent and subscribe to designer clothes, thereby using a leasing/rental model for clothing. ” At the most conservative end, we have tripled the lifetime of garments while still looking brand-new, compared to what you could do on your own.

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  • RESTART

    This social enterprise is an advocacy group that aims to educate and promote repairs of electronics by empowering citizens with repair skills, thereby creating awareness of problems associated with consumerist “use and throw away” models.

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  • RETURNITY

    This company reduces friction points associated with reusable packaging, making it a more accessible option for brands to provide products in reusable shipping packages.

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  • AMMIQUE

    This company creates a new type of mattress-free bed that can easily be reconfigured and reused many times over, thereby staying in circulation longer than typical mattresses.

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  • TERSUS SOLUTIONS

    This company works with fashion and luxury brands to clean, repair and repurpose high-end apparel, shoes and accessories for resale, upcycling and recycling.

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  • CIRCULAR IQ

    This company helps companies offers software tools to “measure” circularity and resource management.

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