🥾 Evoco: Merging Plants With Footwear
FATES, one of Evoco’s headlining brands, provides the footwear industry with sustainable eco-foam insoles and midsoles. The company partnered with footwear brands such as Kodiak, Timberland, and Vans, to create natural USDA and GreenCircle certified products that don’t sacrifice sustainability for performance.
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🤝 Will & Co. Announces Strategic Collaboration with Checkerspot
Through this collaboration, Will & Co. and Checkerspot will work together to provide European partners with high performance polyurethane systems with high biocontent and attractive sustainability profiles.
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💷 Shellworks Raises $6.2 Million in Seed Funding Round
Innovative biotech company Shellworks has raised $6.2 million in seed funding led by LocalGlobe. Shellworks is providing brands with scalable, functional and compostable packaging that performs like plastic until it’s disposed of.
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🧥 The North Face Joins Archive Resale Circular Initiative
Outdoor apparel brand The North Face is partnering with Archive and Tersus to upgrade its resale program, called Renewed. The Renewed offering features a collection of clothing and gear that has been refurbished and remade.
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👓 Making Frames for Glasses from Cigarette Butts
Dutch technical consultancy firm Spark904 has teamed up with three partners in order to address the pollution problem caused by cigarette butts and realizing a proof of concept to recycle cellulose acetate to create frames for eyeglasses.
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💰 Nova Scotia Invests in Verschuren Centre Expansion
The Province is investing $2.5 million in the Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment in Sydney to expand into a national biomanufacturing centre. The centre helps clean-tech companies develop and commercialise innovative and sustainable technologies.
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