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Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life

GreenBiz

Also, we helped design clothes with natural and monofibers that are recyclable. Our recycling partnerships are local here in the U.S. Salubata is a Nigerian startup that creates modular shoes from recycled plastic waste. Resortecs is a Belgium-based startup that provides a solution to the lack of apparel recycling.

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Greentown Labs Announces Location of New Incubator in Houston’s Innovation District

Greentown Labs

North America’s largest climatetech incubator will expand to Houston’s Innovation District to accelerate the clean energy transition and reveals Microsoft, Rice Management Company, Saint-Gobain, Direct Energy, Naturgy, and FCC Environmental Services as additional partners. Somerville, Mass., and Houston, Texas, Sept. Somerville, Mass.,

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Circularity Challenge Spotlight: Interface Polymers

Greentown Labs

The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. Multilayer plastics—think bubble wrap, meat packaging, and other pre-sealed food packaging—are difficult to recycle, which means they end up in landfills or incinerators. But Interface Polymers ’ additive addresses the recycling roadblock.

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Circularity Challenge Spotlight: American Battery Metals Corporation

Greentown Labs

The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. There’s a huge opportunity—and need—for better lithium-ion battery recycling. The people who have the best skill set to recycle these lithium-ion batteries are the same people who manufacture them, Melsert argues.

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Greentown Labs Announces Go Move 2022 with BASF and Magna

Greentown Labs

That’s why BASF , Magna , and Greentown Labs have partnered to launch Greentown Go Move 2022 —a startup-corporate partnerships accelerator that’s seeking applications from startups with material and recycling process innovations that decarbonize the lifecycle impact of the automotive industry. About Greentown Labs.

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Greentown Go Move 2022 with BASF and Magna Announces Startup Cohort Focused on Automotive Industry Decarbonization

Greentown Labs

This program aligns with BASF’s efforts to help enable a net-zero transportation industry by reducing life-cycle emissions, launching new recycling techniques, and creating new materials for shared and sustainable mobility. With incubators in Somerville, Mass. Endeavor Composites (Knoxville, TN, U.S.): About Greentown Go.

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DrinKicks is Transforming—and Decarbonizing—Sneaker Culture with Plant-leather Shoes and Education

Greentown Labs

Michael Fletcher and Kristeen Reynolds are bringing their passion for sneaker culture, circularity, and community engagement to the pavement with DrinKicks —a startup turning food waste and recycled materials into shoes with 89 percent lower carbon emissions than their cow-leather counterparts.

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