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yoona.ai: Digital garment design to minimise production waste
Founded in 2020 by Anna Franziska Michel, an experienced fashion designer, artist and IT scientist, yoona.ai is disrupting the fashion sector with its software that creates infinite designs digitally without the production of physical garments, therefore saving corporate resources and allowing companies to minimise production waste.
Wasteless: Supermarket item markdown based on expiration dates
Founded by Yossi Regev and Oded Omer in 2016, Wasteless helps supermarkets and online grocery stores to recapture the full value of their perishable products and cut their food waste by utilizing its AI-powered markdown optimization solution, pricing items based on their expiration date and perishability.
microTERRA: Cultivating algae in wastewater and utilising it as pet food
The fertilizer runoff from agriculture and animal manure are the two leading causes of water pollution. This causes excessive nutrients to end up in the waterways and directly impacts people's health, food and water security and biodiversity. To combat the problem, sustainable and scalable agriculture methods need to be employed.
Algreen: Biodegradable and biocompatible microbeads for cosmetics
Studies have estimated that around 63% of our #cosmetics contain #microplastics. Since these were #plastics aren’t filtered by sewage systems, they ultimately end up in the #ocean, polluting the #environment.
LIA: Flushable and biodegradable pregnancy test
Founded by Bethany Edwards and Anna Couturier, LIA Diagnostics is the first and only #flushable and biodegradable #pregnancy #test that is 99% accurate, has 0% plastic and will provide anyone taking the test total privacy.
Woola: Replacing bubble wrap with sheep wool alternatives
Founders Anna-Liisa Palatu and Jevgeni Širai are on a mission to combat e-commerce #plastic #waste in the online shopping industry with their company Woola. Using leftover sheep wool (which would otherwise go to waste), they have developed fully #compostable packaging alternatives to traditional bubble wrap and plastic envelopes.