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Extending Product and Material Lifespan – with Alina Bassi, Founder & CEO, Kleiderly
As part of our 'Regenerate' channel, we hone in on one of the main objectives in a circular economy - the drive to eliminate waste and pollution, inviting entrepreneurs working towards extending the lifespan of the products, materials and services they use, to share with their success stories and the barriers that still affect them whilst operating in a predominantly linear system.
innovation in the reuse space
How businesses can make reuse scalable and viable, with Tom Szaky, Founder & CEO, TerraCycle
As part of our 'Regenerate' channel, in partnership with 2N Management, we hone in on one of the main objectives in a circular economy - the drive to eliminate waste and pollution. We are inviting entrepreneurs working towards extending the lifespan of the products, materials and services they use, to share with their success stories and the barriers that still affect them whilst operating in a predominantly linear system. In this article, Tom Szaky, CEO and Founder of TerraCycle and Loop, articulates how multi-stakeholder partnerships are essential in driving action and innovation in the reuse space.
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Kaushal Shah, Founder & CEO of envoPAP, shares his experience of fundraising as a climate entrepreneur
Continuing on our focus on 'Investing in our Planet’, we are speaking to climate entrepreneurs and investors to understand what they believe are the funding gaps and how more capital can flow to the right places. In this article, Kaushal Shah, Founder & CEO, envoPAP shares his experience of raising capital, and the 'three essential boxes' that must be ticked before approaching investors.
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Catherine Conway

Catherine Conway’s career has spanned both the private and not-for-profit sectors, always focusing on the interplay of how business interacts…

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Kaushal Shah

Kaushal Shah is the Founder and CEO of envoPAP, a certified B Corporation which makes innovative, sustainable packaging and paper…

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Shimrit Perkol-Finkel

Dr. Shimrit Perkol-Finkel, Founder and CEO: 20 years of experience in the field of Marine Biology and Ecology in over…

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Theresa Millard

Theresa Millard runs Sustainability, Stewardship and the Kohler WasteLAB at Kohler Company. Millard joined Kohler Co. in 1988 and has…

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Mittal Kothari

Mittal Kothari currently leads Environmental and Sustainability Strategy at Cambridge University Press and Assessments. She was recently sustainability lead at…

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Alina Bassi

Alina Bassi is a Google for Startups Female Founder alumni and more recently, she joined the Forbes 30 under 30…

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Daphna Nissenbaum

Daphna Nissenbaum is the Co-Founder and CEO of TIPA®, a leading developer and manufacturer of compostable packaging founded in Israel…

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Jack (Tato) Bigio

As Co-Founder and Co-CEO of UBQ Materials, Tato Bigio is redefining the concept and value of everything we discard. By…

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Adi Reza Nugroho

Adi Reza Nugroho is the Co-Founder and CEO of MYCL, a biotech start-up that produces sustainable material for the global…

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Bryan Eagle

Bryan Eagle is the Co-Founder and CEO of Glanris – a company that manufactures a patented, sustainable, low-cost water filtration…

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Darius Habamenshi

Darius Habamenshi is the Managing Director at Abahizi Rwanda, an East-African social entreprise that supplies luxurious handbags to global fashion…

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Eunice Sampson

Eunice Sampson is the Director of Climate Change & Sustainability at EY West Africa. Previous to this, she joined Dangote…

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Jovia Kisaakye

Jovia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sparkle Agro Brands, a startup that deals in transforming spoilt milk into sustainable…

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Julia Kay

From a young age Julia was drawn to all things material and design which led her to a career in…

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Kevin Kumala

Kevin is the Co-Founder of Avani, an eco-technology company in Bali, Indonesia, that has become a global purveyor of sustainable…

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Marie-Claire Kuja

Marie-Claire is the Founder and CEO of KujaEcoPads, an innovation that uses banana stem agro waste and technology to manufacture…

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Ronald Mugaiga

Ronald is the Founder and CEO of Ecomak Recyclers, a One Young World Ambassador, a Savvy Fellow, Mentor, and Coach…

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Sabine Stuiver

Sabine is a serial entrepreneur, water conservation expert and a thought and change leader, influencing and mobilising stakeholders to collaborate…

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Giulio Bonazzi

Giulio has dedicated his career to evolving Aquafil S.p.A. into a leading player in the global carpet and textile materials…

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Lieselotte Heederik

Lieselotte is the Co-Founder and Director of Nazava Water Filters and a Development Expert in Micro Finance and Women Empowerment….

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Robert Luo

Robert is Founder and CEO of Mi Terro and a three-time entrepreneur with two exits. He has many years of…

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Shashwat Gangwal

Shashwat is the Founder of InfinityBox, a startup in the food-delivery industry designed to do away with single-use plastic containers…

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Shinya Shimizu

Shinya Shimizu is Founder & CEO of Elephantech which has reinvented the circuit board for a sustainable world and is…

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Mahadev Chikkanna

Committed to circular and green economy, Mahadev Chikkanna is the Founder & CEO of Spectrus Sustainable Solutions, co-founded with his…

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Wan Young Cha

Wan Young Cha is the CEO of Marine Innovation, which makes 100% eco-friendly bioplastics using seaweed by-products. They use an…

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Aaron Guan

Aaron Guan is the Founder & CEO of Neptune Technologies, turning organic fishing waste into biodegradable nanocrystals that solve the…

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Cornelia Wyllie

Cornelia Wyllie is the CEO and owner of Fine Foods, Vanuatu, a pioneering social enterprise dedicated to transforming surplus produce…

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Durga Das

Durga Das is the Founder of Aeronero, at the forefront of revolutionising the water industry through innovative air water generation…

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Genlian Shen

Shen Genlian is the Chairman of Sichuan Vanov New Materials, a high-tech enterprise specialising in R&D, production and sales of…

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Greg Newbloom

Greg Newbloom, Ph.D., is the Founder & CEO of Membrion, a cleantech startup focused on recycling wastewater from harsh industrial…

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Hunny Bhagchandani

Hunny Bhagchandani is the Founder of Torchit, a social enterprise dedicated to empowering individuals with disabilities through affordable and innovative…

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Rebecca Marmot

Rebecca is Unilever’s Chief Sustainability Officer, responsible for their sustainability strategy and implementation globally. This includes embedding sustainability across the…

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Neha Jain

Neha Jain is the Founder of Zerocircle, which is scaling its game-changing coated products in major markets, including the EU,…

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Toni Kienberger

Toni Kienberger is the Founder & CEO of Ocean Material®, a global supply chain platform transforming marine waste into valuable…

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Kanishk Negi

Kanishk Negi is the Sustainable Procurement Director at Schneider Electric, and has over 20 years of experience in designing and…

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Kansiime Honest Fortunate

Kansiime Honest Fortunate is the Founder & CEO of Mapalo Investments, a company dedicated to revolutionising feminine hygiene in Africa….

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Amit Singha

Amit Singha is the Founder of Anuprerna, on a mission to create a sustainable brand to uplift India’s indigenous textile…