Category: Startup
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Start-Up Success Story: Nfinite Nanotechnology
Start-Up Success Story: Pre-Summit interview with Chee Hau Teoh, CEO & Co-Founder of Nfinite Nanotechnology — RETHINKING Materials / London May 4-5 / 10 % Discount Code = BioPlasticsNews10
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Mynusco Creates Indian Biomaterial Platform
Mynusco creates biomaterial platform to tackle climate change
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H&M Awards 5 Startups
H&M Foundation awards 5 innovations a total €1 million grant for their efforts to make the fashion industry planet positive
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CNN Covers Biodegradable Bag Startup
CNN made a video documentary on a biodegradable bag startup.
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Imperial College London Startups Competition
Imperial’s Most Promising Student Startups Get Set To Pitch Their Business Ideas including bioplastics
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Dow Invests in Chemical Recycling Startup Plastogaz
Dow to simplify plastic waste-to-feedstock process through investment with start-up Plastogaz
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Canadian Startup Turns CO2 into Shampoo and Furniture
Turning CO2 into shampoo and lawn furniture? U of T startup doing what ‘no one has done before’
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Israel Climate Tech Startup Map
We present to you the Israeli companies that are on the front line of the global battle against climatechange.
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Startup Turns Coffee Grinds into Furniture
Chemical engineering student and inventor says that coffee grinds are bad for the compost and could be used more wisely
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US Startup Funded to Convert Spent Grain into Bioplastic
California startup receives money to scale up production
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Start Up Success Stories – Gelatex and Xampla (FREE)
Geletex Co-Founder and COO, Mari-Ann Meigo Fonseca and Xampla CEO, Simon Hombersley share what they have been up to since participating at Rethinking Materials last year. This is a FREE article
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Scottish Startup Makes Surfactants from Fish Waste
Fish oils used to create key component for eco-friendly detergents
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French Startup Launches PLA Orthopedic Casts
Are we soon done with the traditional cast to repair a broken leg?
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Indian Solution for Mass Scale Seaweed Bioplastics
An Indian startup could revolutionize seaweed bioplastic
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Oceanium Raises 1 Million $
Vote of confidence in the emerging seaweed industry: Oceanium funding reaches new heights in 2021
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EIC New Wave of Startup Champions
European Innovation Council announces new wave of start-up champions
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German Material Startup Receives Grant
€2.42 million grant by European Innovation Council (EIC)
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Smart Packaging Wins Startcup 2021
Packaging with an integrated electronic circuit for intelligent packaging and sustainable logistics.
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Design Lights Made from Banana fibres
This startup supplies companies like Google and LinkedIn
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Australian Startup Develops Infinite Recycling
Australian enviro-tech startup Samsara launches to create infinite recycling and end plastic pollution
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Canadian Bioplastic Startup Goes Crowdfunding
Canadian Startup has already raised one million dollar through crowdfunding
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Business Insider Bioplastic Startup Selection
From edible algae packaging to olive stone bioplastic, here’s how 7 startups are fighting plastic pollution
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Apple Selects 15 Environmental Startups
Apple selects 15 Black- and Brown-owned businesses for first-of-its-kind Impact Accelerator
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The Start Up of Bio-on (FREE)
Nature always finds a solution. Bio-on what happened? Founder and CEO of Bio-on, Marco Astorri, shares his incredible story in three articles from start-up, to expansion to todays’ situation. Research and development must never stop … the START-UP. This is a FREE article.
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PHA Startup Receives Funding to Scale Up Production
Genecis Receives Funding from NGen to Scale Sustainable Bioplastic Production from Organic Waste
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DOE Awards Innovative Startups and SMEs
American Meritocracy vs European Nepotism. US gives funding to market oriented SMEs and startups. EU gives funding to companies who discriminate against individuals and to their friends
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Investment Fund Goes for Seaweed Technology Startup
Seaweed startup lands $9 million investment
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Actress Emma Watson and Twitter Cofounder Back Bioplastic Startup
Actress Emma Watson and Twitter’s cofounder back startup aiming to revolutionize plastic
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Swedish Startup Finds Circular Solution to Textile Waste (FREE)
Sharetex technology provides circular solution to process millions of tons of textile waste. This is a FREE article.
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New Zealand Invests in Blue Bioplastics
New Ara Research Hub Gets Funding to Help Bioplastic Startup Kelpn
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Novolex Starts Production Bioplastic Cups in US
Novolex Launches New U.S. Manufacturing Line to Make Compostable Cups from Plant-Based Plastic
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Coke and Palmolive Join AB Inbev 100 + Accelerator (FREE)
AB InBev 100+ Accelerator partners with The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever for Sustainable Startup Innovation.
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Flat PET Wine Bottles Startup Gets Extra Funds (FREE)
Sustainable wine pioneer Garçon Wines secures close to $1m investment to fuel launch of cleantech packaging arm and grow international business.
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Eight Start-ups Tackling Plastic Pollution Through Material Innovation and Circular Technologies (FREE)
With climate change, resource scarcity and plastic pollution high priorities for brands and investors, ambitious innovators are driving forward new solutions in material science that will contribute towards a circular economy. This is a FREE article.
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10 EU Startups to Replace Plastic
10 European startups to develop alternatives to plastics
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US Startup Converts Milk into Plastic and Fibres
US Startup Converts Milk into Plastic and Fibres
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New South African Marine Degradable Bioplastics
A biotechnology company in Johannesburg brings a new bioplastic to the market
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Dalhousie University Biomaterials Spin Off
Dal Spin‑Out Looks To Produce Nature’s Strongest, Lightest And Toughest Materials
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New Granola Startup Goes Bioplastic Packaging
Rachel Domb, a second-year student at Northeastern, got the idea to be a maker of healthy snacks when she was in high school.
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Swedish Startup Funded for Enzymes Biomanufacturing
EnginZyme Extends Series A to €11 Million to Advance Cell-Free Chemical Production Platform in Funding Round Led by Sweden’s Industrifonden
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Green Chemicals Startup Valued over $ Billion
US Green chemicals startup is valued over a billion $
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Pitch Your Sustainability Packaging Solution
Wanted: Startups and scale-ups with next generation sustainable packaging solutions
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South Korean Carbon Fiber Recycling Startup Scales Up
South Korean carbon fiber recycling start-up scales up
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Startup Takes Plastic Out Of Parenting
How Two Entrepreneurs Are Taking The Plastic Out Of Parenting
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Paptic Finalist Best Climate Impact Startup Award
Paptic is a finalist of the Nordic Startup Awards in the category of Best Climate Impact Start-up. You can still vote to support them.
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London Startup Makes Edible Packaging from Seaweed
Seaweed may be the solution to our plastic crisis. A London startup is making edible packaging out of it.
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Swiss Heavyweight Bioplastic Startup
Promising alternatives to plastic in the pipeline of a Swiss startup
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Most Promising Recycling Startups
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New UK Startup for Biomedical 3D Printing
Universities of Birmingham and Warwick form spinout company, 4D Medicine Ltd, to take new family of biomedical 3D printing resins to market
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Coke Invests in PET Recycling Startup
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP), the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler, has taken an important step on its journey towards 100% rPET for its plastic bottles by funding CuRe Technology – a recycling start-up which seeks to provide a new lease of life for difficult to recycle plastic polyester waste.
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Americans Start Ocean Clean Up
Ocean Voyages Institute’s marine plastic recovery vessel, S/V KWAI, docked at the port of Honolulu today, after a 48-day expedition, successfully removing 103 tons (206,000 lbs.) of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone, more commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Gyre.
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Agilix, Amazon Climate Fund, McDonald’s Biofuel, e-Nable, Huhtamaki Startups, African Parks, Siberia
Latest News on “Plastics in the Circular Economy” presented by Axel Barrett, Chief Editor BioplasticsNews.com.
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Mitsui Supports Startup to Reduce Ocean Plastic
Mitsui Chemicals today announced that it has selected three innovative Asian startups to receive support under the Asia–Pacific Low-Carbon Lifestyles Challenge (APLCLC), a program run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP; Nairobi, Kenya; Executive Director: Inger Andersen).
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New Bioplastics Startup Called RWDC Industries
Daniel Carraway spent his entire career working in paper and bioplastics. The serial entrepreneur began his career at International Paper working in their research division before founding two previous companies that became cornerstones of the bioplastics industry.
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McDonalds and Starbucks Start Reusable Cups Pilot Program
What if coffee cups could be reused instead of thrown out? That’s what Starbucks and McDonald’s are betting on, with both companies contributing to the NextGen Consortium, a group that’s been developing reusable cups to be more gentle on the environment.
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French Composting Startups
Video documentary on a French Composting Startup called “Les Alchimistes”.
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Bioplastics Startups Graduate at BASF Circularity Challenge
Micro-engineered bioplastics. An additive that allows different plastics to be compatible with one another. A new way to recycle lithium-ion batteries.
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Ukrainian Startup Launches Bioplastics Straws
Ukrainian startup Yes Straws has launched biodegradable, single-use drinking straws made from cane stems.
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University of Toronto Entrepreneur Raises Millions for Bioplastics Startup
EcoPackers Inc., a social enterprise co-founded by University of Toronto alumna Nuha Siddiqui, has raised $4.3 million in pre-seed and seed financing for its biodegradable bioplastics business, the Globe & Mail reports.
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Korean Scientist Founds Bioplastic Startup
Hwang Dong-soo, an associate professor at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), is doing what his colleagues wouldn’t normally do.
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NBA Stadiums Start Replacing Plastic Cups with Recyclable Aluminium Cups
Ball Corporation and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment today announced that Ball’s infinitely recyclable aluminum cup will soon be available to visitors at KSE’s Pepsi Center in Denver, Colo.
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Swedish Algae Startup Wins the Jackpot
Swedish Algae Factory has been named the 2019 winner of the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge.
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Changing the World One Startup at the Time, An Investor Perspective
Exclusive Interview with Josko Bobanovic, Partner at Sofinnova Partners. Sofinnova Partners invests in start-ups, early-stage companies, corporate spin-offs and occasionally restarts.
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Chilean Startup Creates Biodegradable Bag That Dissolves In Water
Recently, Chile has proudly become the first Latin country to issue a complete ban on the usage of the plastic bags, as a fight against the threatening plastic pollution.
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BASF Launch Accelerator Program for Start-Ups
The Greentown Labs Circularity Challenge is a six-month accelerator program for start-ups developed in partnership with BASF, one of the world’s leading chemical companies.
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Lactips Starts Distribution Partnership With IMCD Group
Lactips starts distribution partnership with IMCD Group in the Nordics and France, to market the bio-based and biodegradable thermoplastics pellets in technical and food applications.
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Lignin Startup in the Spotlight
The Hamburg-based start-up LignoPure, a spin-off from the TVT Institute of the TUHH, wants to make the world a better place with this great material.
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Startup Makes Menstrual Pads With Hemp
Hempact, a startup created by University of Alberta students, was recently awarded $10,000 towards their mission of combating excess hemp waste in Alberta.
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This Startup Created a Plastic Alternative From Paper Mill Leftovers
Each year, 12.7 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean. Around the world, public entities and advocacy organizations are working toward finding solutions to reduce plastic pollution and create new alternatives.
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Cape Town Start-Up Launches World’s First Biodegradable Cigarette
It turns out the world’s obsession with plastic is far from over. Yes, we’re aware of the global plastic straw crusade going on at the moment – which in itself seems a tad overdue – but cigarette filters? SURELY they converted the world’s biggest form of litter to something biodegradable ages ago? Nope, they didn’t.…
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Jamaica Bio Plastic Wins Total Startupper of the Year Challenge
Founder of Jamaica Bio-Plastic Jordan Freeman, captured the Total Jamaica Startupper of the Year title, for which he was presented with a €12,500 symbolic cheque at an awards ceremony at Courtyard At Marriott Hotel, New Kingston recently. Freeman topped a field of 14 finalists, with Yekini Wallen-Bryan of PreeLabs Limited, earning the second prize of…
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Floreon … The Rising Star Of Bioplastics
Floreon is becoming one of the most important innovators in the bioplastics industry.
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Operation Ocean Clean Up Has Started
System 001 was invented by dutchman Boyan Slat and launched this weekend to remove between 40.000 and 80.000 tons of plastics between Hawaii and California in the next five years.
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Synthetic Bio-Technology to Boost Green Chemicals Production by Guy Hélin
The start-up focusing on applications of micro-organisms to industry, using the tools developed initially to decode the human genes in labs.
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Turning Dust Into Stone with Bacteria by Martin Spitznagel founder of Dust Biosolutions GmbH
Turning dust into stonewith bacteria by Martin Spitznagel founder of Dust Biosolutions GmbH.
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Use of Empty Fruit Bunches by Dr Eva Kraner Project mgr at Autodisplay Biotech GmbH
The company focuses on making the production of palm oil more sustainable.
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HPX Polymers GmBH CEO Dr Uwe Bölz.
HPX develops new bio-degradable polymers based on waste from industrial processes of renewable resources.
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Total Corbion PLA Formally Starts Up Operations
Total Corbion PLA announced on March 2, 2017 the official launch of its operations to produce and market Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) polymers. As announced by its parent companies Total ( France)and Corbion (The Netherlands) last November, the new company is a 50/50 joint venture based in the Netherlands.
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