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What if your house didn’t pollute, but helped clean the air? Most conventional buildings begin harming the environment before anyone ever moves in. Through the extraction, production and transport of materials like concrete, PVC and polystyrene. These processes emit large amounts of CO₂ and other pollutants, turning…

The Netherlands is aiming to develop a fully circular economy by 2050. An economy without waste, where everything runs on reusable raw materials. This significantly challenges the textile industry: as this industry is one of the most polluting in the world. Although somes parts of the sector are already committed to…

Dutch humanitarian start-up Sheltersuit upcycles sleeping bags to help refugees and the homeless cope with harsh weather conditions. The firm was part of a group of six Dutch innovative companies that represented the Netherlands at the SXSW festival in the US.

The rapid development of technology makes ‘e-waste’ one of the fastest-growing waste streams. E-waste compensation addresses this market mismatch, providing a great starting point towards more sustainable use of technology.

The world consumes 350 million tons of plastic every year. Much of it ends up on landfills or gets incinerated. Europeans alone generate 25 million tons of plastic waste, of which only 30% is reused or recycled. Dutch company PlasticRoad wants to help to reduce this waste by building bicycle paths made from recycled…

Who would have thought coffee grounds could be circular? In fact, they are ideal as a fertile substrate for growing oyster mushrooms. Rotterdam-based rotterzwam collects the coffee grounds from local pubs, large corporations and restaurants. They cultivate the mushrooms and sell the produce to customers in the…

Early in the pandemic the International Labour Organization predicted half the world’s workforce stood to lose their jobs immediately. In Uganda social enterprise Eco Brix teamed up with Dutch high tech company TMC to produce mouth masks to fight unemployment, poverty and COVID.