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Brazil’s Future Farm Gets $58M To Expand Vegan Meat Range & Develop Plant-Based Milk, Butter
Brazil-based alt-meat startup Future Farm has closed a $58 million round of Series C funding to make its plant-based meat analogues more widely available and also add new products to its roster. BTG and Rage Capital co-led the round, which!-->…
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Meet 18 Startups Transforming Food, From Fungi Protein To Cultured Breast Milk
As our food system continues to battle challenges brought on by climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, innovation in the food tech startup world has been racing to come up with disruptive solutions. From gut-health to upcycled!-->…
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Exclusive: Starbucks Launches Global Reusable Campaign, Will Offer Up To 2 Million Cups Across APAC
Starbucks, the world’s largest coffee chain, is going circular. In a new global campaign, the company will be serving handcrafted beverages in reusable cups, offering increased discounts for customers who bring in their own cup for a!-->…
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Reusable Containers Aren’t Always Better For The Environment Than Disposable Ones: New Research
By: Alejandro Gallego Schmid, Adisa Azapagic & Joan Manuel F. Mendoza
We are facing a waste crisis, with landfills across the world at full capacity and mountains of “recycled” waste dumped in developing!-->!-->!-->…
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Love Takeout, Hate Waste? This App Helps You Find Restaurants With Sustainable Packaging
Jybe is a new review app to helping users find out which restaurants use sustainable packaging for food takeout and online deliveries.
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World’s First Sustainable Packaging Sourcing Marketplace Launches with Oversubscribed Pre-Seed
SourceGreenPackaging.com, the world’s first global B2B marketplace dedicated to sourcing forevers plastics free packaging products, has just launched with an oversubscribed pre-seed round. The company, based in Hong Kong and addressing an!-->…
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Industrially Compostable Packaging Leader Vegware To Expand Across North America After Novolex Acquisition
Vegware, a British biobased industrially compostable food packaging company, has been acquired by American packaging firm Novolex. While it will be joining Novelex's sustainable packaging subsidiary Eco-Products, Vegware’s label will!-->…
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Food Waste Fighting Startup Apeel Bags $250M In Temasek-Led Round
Apeel, the startup whose tech enables longer-lasting fresh produce, has just bagged $250 million in a fresh funding round. The round, led by Singapore’s Temasek, will go towards Apeel’s continued expansion across Europe, the U.S. and U.K.!-->…
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New Campaign Urges Amazon To Ditch Packaging and ‘ShipNaked’ Instead
A new ShipNaked campaign wants to fight packaging waste by asking online shopping giants like Amazon to deliver without boxes or bags.
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Foodpanda’s Parent Company To Offer Restaurants 10M Units Of Eco Packaging By 2022
Foodpanda's parent company Delivery Hero will provide local restaurants with plant-based and PFAS-free eco-packaging alternatives.
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Just Salad’s Largest-Ever Capital Raise to Double Locations, Scale Reusable Bowl Program
The healthy fast-casual restaurant chain Just Salad will use new capital to scale its reusable bowl program and double its restaurants.
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World-First: McDonald’s U.K. To Pilot Reusable Coffee Cup Scheme
McDonald’s collaborates with zero-waste delivery platform Loop to unveil a pilot returnable coffee cup scheme across six UK outlets.
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Zero Waste E-Supermarket Raises Pre-Seed To Expand Reusable Packaging For Groceries
Zero-waste online supermarket Lyfa secured funding to create reusable packaging in its bid to reduce waste from groceries.
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Your Next Grocery Haul Will Have These New Eco-Score Food Labels
Next time you go to the supermarket, you might find "traffic light" style eco-scores on food products to indicate its environmental footprint.
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Indie Beauty Pioneer Credo Phases Out Single-Use Plastic, PFAS, and Other Package Toxins
Credo Beauty has phased out single-use products and has eliminated brands that use PFAS and other toxins in its packaging.
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REN Clean Skincare Debuts Zero-Waste Aluminum Tube
REN's zero-waste sample tube features an aluminum reclosable break-off nozzle without the need for mini plastic caps.
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Is Nestlé Launching a 100% Sustainable Water Bottle?
Nestlé unveiled a hybrid bottle for Vittel which uses 100% recyclable components to move the French water brand into a sustainable direction.
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Unilever Embraces Sustainability By Rethinking Both Its Products and Packaging
Unilever embraces sustainability with the launch of a CO2 recycling laundry capsule and recyclable toothpaste tubes for its oral care brands.
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Cambridge Spinoff Xampla To Launch Plastic-Free Sachets & Capsules Made From ‘Vegan Spider Silk’
Xampla, the University of Cambridge spin-off startup, will soon introduce compostable plastic-free sachets and capsules made using a new “vegan spider silk” material. The new polymer material, which is plant-based, scalable and!-->…
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Deliveroo X barePack France: Partnerships Sees 60 Restaurant Partners Offer Meals In Reusable Containers
Food delivery giant Deliveroo has partnered with circular food packaging startup barePack France in an effort to reduce its single-use packaging by giving customers an opportunity to order their food in reusable containers with sixty!-->…
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Manila Agritech Fortuna Cools Bags Funding For Plastic-Free Upcycled Coconut Coolers
Fortuna Cools, a Philippines-based agritech startup making sustainable coolers out of coconut fibre, has closed its round of seed funding. The company is backed by ADB Ventures, the impact investment arm of Asian Development Bank, and will!-->…
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