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PLAXTIL
This French company transforms non-recyclable textile and clothing waste into a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based plastic.
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HYFÉ
The circle of it: This company transforms food manufacturing wastewater — rich in sugars — into low-cost feedstock for biomanufacturing, replacing petroleum as a raw material for chemicals and materials.
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SOLE REBELS
This company creates shoes using upcycled tires and uses traditional artisan techniques to create comfortable shoes while providing fair wages and empowering local communities.
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COCOPLUM
This company upcycles used prescription bottles into frames for sunglasses
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NATURLOOP
This company is creating durable biomaterials to replace the use of woods for furniture and the construction industry from coconut husk fibers.
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MALAI ECO
This company is creating biomaterials to replace the use of animal leather using bacterial cellulose grown on waste coconut water from the coconut processing industry.
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MATTER OF TRUST
This nonprofit repurposes human hair, pet hair, fleece and other materials to clean up oil spills in the oceans
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UPCIRCLE
This company upcycles natural by-products into vegan beauty products, thereby keeping useful ingredients from landfills.
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URBAN MACHINE
This company is utilizing AI to make lumber waste more easily reused for reclaimed wood purposes.
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CRUZ FOAM
This company creates compostable styrofoam made from food waste to replace traditional styrofoam for packaging solutions.
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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.
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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
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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.
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PHOOL
This company tackles the problem of flower waste and repurposes spent temple flowers and repurposes them into incense, paper and water colors.
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ELVIS & KRESSE
This British company repurposes used fire hydrants into luxury handbags and other luxury items.
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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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MANGO MATERIALS
This company produces biodegradable polymers from waste biogas, thereby creating a biodegradable and cost-effective alternative to oil-based plastics.
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WIZE TEA
This upcycling company rescues coffee leaves that are typically neglected during coffee production and makes coffee-like beverages from it.
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GUMDROP
This company is creating awareness and plastic alternatives with used gum.
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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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HAMILTON PERKINS COLLECTION
This upcycling company creates beautiful lifestyle products from recycled materials
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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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BANANATEX
This company is creating a biodegradable fabric out of banana plants.
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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.
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AEROPOWDER
This company is making high-quality insulation materials from surplus feathers obtained from the poultry industry.
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SHELLMET
This company is repurposing wasted scallop shells from the seafood industry and making durable helmets with the new material.
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ATKO PLANNING
This company rescues surplus leather and leather scraps and develops leather materials including leather fiber, leather spun yarn and leather textiles.
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RECYC LEATHER
This company rescues leather scraps and creates a new leather material by combining it with other inputs.
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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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OCHIS
This company creates beautiful eyewear designs spent coffee grounds collected from cafes in Ukraine.
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ANANAS ANAM
The circle of it: This company is creating sustainable plant-based alternatives to leather by repurposing leaves leftover from pineapple production.
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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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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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THAELY
This company makes upcycled shoes with waste products like plastic bottles, plastic bags, caps and waste rubber.
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BIOFASE
This company creates biodegradable and compostable cutlery from leftover avocado pits.
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ADRIAN MARTINUS
This company upcycles discarded skateboards into beautiful furniture.
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ICTYOS
This company upcycles fish skin into a leather-like material for luxury goods.
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BOTTLETOP
This company creates upscale bags made from sustainable and zero waste materials like upcycled aluminum ringpulls, among others.
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MOMO PENCIL
This company produces high-quality pencils made from recycled newspapers.
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PAKKA
This company uses waste agricultural biomass to create a range of compostable packaging and compostable tableware solutions.
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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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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.
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STONECYCLING
This company creates building materials from upcycled waste from construction sites.
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BYFUSION
This company rescues plastic and even nonrecyclables and upcycles them into building blocks to be used for temporary and permanent structures.
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NEUTRAL FUELS
This company sources used cooking oil from the restaurant industry and creates diesel to be used by the trucking industry.
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CONNECTED ENERGY
This company utilizes second-life batteries from electric vehicles to provide energy storage solutions to its customers.
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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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ENJAY
This company has developed technology that provides energy solutions from polluted exhaust air.
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REGRAINED
This company upcycles spent grain from the beer-making process and creates new food products with it.
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CIRCULAR IQ
This company helps companies offers software tools to “measure” circularity and resource management.