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LOKA
This company has created Dry-Erase markers made from 100% reclaimed plastic and are designed with a bio-recyclable additive to break down faster than conventional plastic.
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RECORK
This company has created a recycling program for cork from the wine industry and others and upcycled them into shoe soles and other cork products.
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COCOPLUM
This company upcycles used prescription bottles into frames for sunglasses
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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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WISDOM SUPPLY COMPANY
This company provides plastic-free and zero-waste stationary supplies.
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REFIBERD
This company utilized artificial intelligence (AI) and hyperspectral imaging to sort discarded textiles for recycling.
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GREEN TOYS
This company uses recycled milk jugs to create children’s toys
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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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VAN PLESTIK
This company designs and develops 3D printing solutions that transform plastic waste (contaminated plastic) into unique, high-quality and affordable objects.
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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.
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MINT
This company uses microbes to capture value from electronic waste.
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EVRNU
This company transforms post-consumer textile waste into a new raw material that can be used to create new textiles and clothes using their proprietary fiber technology, thereby reducing the amount of post-consumer waste ending up in landfill.
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RUBY MOON
This company creates fashionable swimwear using a nylon fiber created using rescued fishing nets from the ocean.
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AMBERCYCLE
This company regenerates end-of-life textiles into new virgin raw materials that can be reused in the clothing industry.
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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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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.
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GLASS HALF FULL
This non-profit converts used glass bottles into eco-friendly sand and gravel solutions that can then be used in Louisiana’s storm relief and coastal restoration efforts.
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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.
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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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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.
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LOOPTWORKS
This company is recovering end-of-life textiles and bringing them back to the economy through circular solutions like recycling, upcycling and downcycling.
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CIRC
This company has created technology to take textile waste and recycle them into new raw materials that can be used endlessly for new clothes instead of using virgin raw materials.
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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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RESORTECS
This company makes clothing disassembly and upcycling more feasible by creating a dissolvable thread that degrades in certain heat conditions.
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CIRCULAR IQ
This company helps companies offers software tools to “measure” circularity and resource management.
