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"Faux leather woven from waste gelatine, packaging grown from fungi and
electricity storage systems powered by old EV batteries. All trailblazing
innovations paving the way to a greener, more sustainable future. All previous
winners of the Green Alley Award, Europe’s first prize for circular economy
startups.
This year marks the award’s 10th of recognising and nurturing outstanding
alternatives to our throwaway culture.
Finnish outfit RePack took the inaugural prize back in 2014. It targeted the
voluminous problem of packaging waste from shopping on the internet. In place
of one-hit plastics it offers durable bags, envelopes and wallets made from
recycled polypropylene. They’re designed to be used again and again. To date,
the company has clocked up more than half a million reuse cycles.
The remarkable thing about RePack is that the organisation appears unremarkable
in a field of other outstanding innovators to have been recognised by the Green
Alley Award. Other companies have broken new ground in fields such as
bioplastics, insulation, low carbon building materials and more. It is a
bulging-with-hope list of solutions that disrupt the accepted system of making
products to be consumed and dumped at considerable cost to the planet."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
