Top Environmental Startups – Best Sustainability Startups
Being environmentally friendly is increasingly a purchasing decision for most of us from jeans to cars and as a result businesses are using data to embrace more environment friendly processes, materials and product methods and adding transparency on how they achieve this as much as possible.
It’s something that good for the planet, good for all living things and good for us so let’s take a look at some of the most exciting environment friendly london and the UK has right now.
Olio
Olio connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away.
This could be food nearing its sell-by date in local stores, spare home-grown vegetables, bread from your baker, or the groceries in your fridge when you go away. For your convenience, OLIO can also be used for non-food household items too.
Moving Mountains
Moving Mountains is a big, bold and powerful metaphor that maps to the brandโs massive and seemingly impossible goal of living in harmony on a sustainable planet, as well as a daily affirmation in the form of the plant based diet, food and human health.
Simeon, the founder & CEO of Moving Mountainsยฎ, is a Vegan and a firm believer in the plant based diet, as well as being a lifelong passionate supporter of environmental issues. Simeon set about to develop a company that could make a real and long-lasting positive change and disrupt the animal agriculture food industry that is responsible for the majority of the earthโs resource destruction.
It all started after a routine blood test at the GP, which returned Simeon with a high cholesterol reading. The GPโs responses were to cut out meat and dairy or go on statins. Already a Vegetarian at the time Simeon was surprised that dairy products could cause so much damage to the human body and decided to follow more of an overall plant based diet from then on.
Unpackaged
Unpackaged vision is a world without unnecessary packaging, with resources preserved for future generations and their mission is to reduce packaging waste by developing systems that enable businesses and individuals to reuse and refill and campaign for policy change.
Delphis
Delphis is the first UK-based cleaning product company to make its bottles from 100% recycled plastic, and the first to receive EU E c o label accreditation for cleaning products.
Top Environmental Startups – Best Sustainability Startups
ChipsBoard
For Chipsboard sustainability is the core principle and the reason why Chip[s] Board was founded on and is the driving force behind our need to improve the world we live in.
Their philosophy is that a circular economy within waste (by-product) management and material production will create a new sustainable model, utilising the abundant resources we currently have rather than continuing to process virgin materials.
Notpla
Notpla are in our Top Environmental Startups – Best Sustainability Startups Guide as they are a combination of designers and chemists, engineers and entrepreneurs who create advanced packaging solutions that disappear, naturally.
Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez and Pierre Paslier cofounded Skipping Rocks Lab in 2013 while studying Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art.
Pavegen
Pavegen are in our green startups guide as they claim to be the global leader in converting footfall into off-grid power and data.
Each footstep on a Pavegen walkway generates 2 to 4 joules of off-grid electrical energy or around 5 watts of power for the duration of a footstep. Bluetooth beacons in the system connect to smartphones, rewarding users for their steps and generating permission-based analytics.
Riding Sunbeams
Riding Sunbeams is a world-leading innovator founded by climate charity Possible and Community Energy South.
Their corporate mission is focussed on decarbonising rail traction networks through the development and connection of unsubsidised, direct-wire renewable generation with significant social impact for line-side communities.
Riding Sunbeams were the first to achieve this globally through our pioneering FOAK 2019 project (funded by Department for Transport) which connected solar energy directly into Direct-Current, third rail powered railways, in conjunction with Network Rail at their Aldershot site. We have now received funding on FOAK 2020 to both develop and demonstrate the required technology to connect solar energy and line-side energy storage to feed an Alternating-Current, overhead-wire railway.
Oxford PV (Oxford)
Oxford PV โ The Perovskite CompanyTM is the pioneer and technology leader in the field of perovskite solar cells.
The company was established in 2010, as a spin-out from the University of Oxford. Today, we have the largest team globally, exclusively focused on developing and commercialising a perovskite based solar technology. We have a research and development site in Oxford, UK and an industrial site near Berlin, Germany. We are building the worldโs first volume manufacturing line for perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cells.
Top Environmental Startups – Best Sustainability Startups
