Founders Beauty creates a sustainable Creamy Clay Concentrate mask
The brand’s mission is to encourage customers to heal their skins with clean materials and offer long-lasting results.
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Surf brand Haydenshapes collaborates with Woolmark to launch a wool-featured collection
This collaboration is to reveal a new collection featuring Merino wool within surf and contemporary fashion across multiple categories.
Aussie plastic-free wet wipes manufacturer receives $645,000 federal investment
This grant allows Corey White and Phil Scardigno, co-founders of The Hygiene Co, to accelerate cutting-edge manufacturing in South Australia.
Ugly: A premium vodka made from imperfect apples
After visiting some farms and observing that up to 40 per cent of the fruit was unsellable due to aesthetics, Danny Grant and Mike Christidis discovered a new production process and founded Ugly.
Hunt and Brew adopts recycled packaging of white milk and cold brew
The plastic bottles are re-made at Australasia’s largest end-to-end PET recycling facilities based in NSW, and a second plant due to open this week in Victoria.
Singapore scientists create batteries made from waste paper
The researchers carbonise the paper by exposing it to high temperatures. Then, the team transforms the fibres from the paper into electrodes, which can put to use in rechargeable batteries that can power smartphones or electric cars.
Start-up Reuser creates a coffee cup from used vegetable oil
A bioplastic combines leftover cooking and vegetable oil and crop waste, which replaces the often used fossil-fuel-based plastic alternatives.
Rebranded Keel Labs creates seaweed-based yarn
Keel Labs extracts a component from seaweed and combines it with renewable biopolymers.
Singapore butchery to sell cultivated meat in world first
Huber’s will become the first butchery in the world to add a new, locally produced cultivated meat to its display case and bistro menu.
Mars Wrigley Australia’s chocolate bars to be sold in paper-based wrappers
Mars Bar, Snickers and Milky Way will be the first brands to be applied to the locally-created sustainable wrappers in April.
Survey shows many consumers think plant-based foods will overtake meat in time
Furthermore, despite rising food insecurity and increasing prices, 60 per cent of consumers prefer to eat healthy food most of the time.
Kiwi start-up releases upcycled products to solve food waste
The company helps to counter one of Aotearoa’s major sources of food waste.
New enzyme tech can turn plastic waste into fresh resources
Protein Evolution has launched technology that uses an enzyme to turn plastic and textile waste into reusable resources.
Cotton On cottons on to paperboard gift cards
The new gift card is made from a superior sustainable paperboard manufactured by one of the world’s most environmentally friendly paper mills. There is no use of fossil fuels in the process of making paperboard.
Lasers can now add produce branding to fruits without labels or packaging
The company has partnered with EcoMark and Macsa – two global companies in the coding and marking space – to develop a new technique with zero ink and zero label cost.