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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. Puro Renewables upcycles carbon-negative biowaste to reduce the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint associated with typical plastic products.

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Trashpresso is the first mobile plastic upcycling platform

AGreenLiving

Plastic pollution is a major climate threat and now there’s a unique solution. It is the world’s first mobile industrial-grade plastic trash upcycling platform. The Trashpresso unit can turn single-use plastic, metal and glass into building materials, fabrics, furniture and fixtures.

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Project recycles CDs into flexible biosensors

Envirotec Magazine

According to the paper, “this sustainable approach for upcycling electronic waste provides an advantageous research-based waste stream that does not require cutting-edge microfabrication facilities, expensive materials or high-caliber engineering skills.”. How can we upcycle those types of CDs with the same kind of process? per device.

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Meet the Startups Innovating in Experts’ Top Climatetech Areas for 2024

Greentown Labs

Circularity for critical metals and minerals Recommended to Axios’ Climate Deals by Clean Energy Ventures Carbon To Stone is developing a carbon mineralization technology coupled with high-value minerals and metals recovery. TerraFixing develops a direct-air-capture technology for cold climates using zeolite-based adsorbent materials.

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CES 2021: Solar-powered TV remotes, electric air taxis and balcony beekeeping

Business Green

From solar-powered TV remotes and driverless cars, to home recycling robots, BusinessGreen has rounded up some of the most exciting green announcements at the influential exhibition. Samsung: Solar-powered TV remotes and upcycled smartphones. The remotes will also be manufactured from 24 per cent recycled plastic content.

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CES 2021's Green Highlights: Solar-powered TV remotes, electric air taxis, and balcony beekeeping

Business Green

From solar-powered TV remotes and driverless cars, to home recycling robots, BusinessGreen has rounded up some of the most exciting green announcements at the influential exhibition. Samsung: Solar-powered TV remotes and upcycled smartphones. Plus the remotes will also be manufactured from 24 per cent recycled plastic content.

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The Green Business Certification Checklist: How To Prepare and Plan for Success 

Green Business Bureau

Energy – How much energy do we use? Can we use less or adopt clean alternative energy sources? Can we find ways to recycle or upcycle waste materials (e.g. Can we find ways to recycle or upcycle waste materials (e.g. Do we use plastic bottles for water? Here’s a sample, section 1, Energy Savings.