BENEFIT FROM CIRCULAR ECONOMY STARTUPS

If you want to cooperate with startups promoted by the Green Alley Award there are many advantages for you and your business:

Early insights

Be the first to discover new trends and alternatives with the potential to make your business more sustainable.

Market Position

Benefit from a vast range of sustainable startup solutions for transforming your business strategy and growing your market position.

Fast innovation

Collaborate with creative entrepreneurs and international circular economy startups to help foster innovations in your industry.

More agility

Transform how you work and differentiate from competitors by early adopting circular economy innovations.

JUMP ON AND JOIN

Our startups create solutions in the field of waste prevention, recycling and digital solutions:

Sustainable packaging in e-commerce

2014 winner RePack

RePack from Helsinki reduces packaging waste in e-commerce by creating a multipath system for reusable packaging.

Sustainable alternative to polystyrene

2018 winner Aeropowder

The UK startup Aeropowder uses feather waste from the poultry industry to produce sustainable thermal packaging. After cleaning and treatment, the feathers are covered in a certified, compostable, food grade liner.

Biobased and biodegradable flasks and jars

2017 winner Sulapac

The Finnish startup Sulapac invented a 100% biodegradable premium packaging made from FSC-certified wood and natural adhesives. It’s the perfect alternative to conventional plastic boxes for luxury goods like cosmetics or food.

Alternative to single-use plastic

2021 winner Tracless Materials

Traceless Materials from Germany offers a biobased home-compostable alternative to single-use plastic. With their special technology, agricultural industry residues are transformed into a sustainable alternative to film or hard plastic packaging or plastic coating.

STARTUP COOPERATIONS – EXAMPLES

Many of our startups are now working together with renowned companies. Two examples are Sulapac and RePack:

WINNER 2017

WINNER 2014

Sulapac has since secured investment funds from Chanel and, alongside its packaging line for cosmetics and jewelry, has launched a fully biodegradable drinking straw. The startup is supported by Stora Enso, a leading global provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wooden construction and paper.

RePack has teamed up with some of Germany’s biggest e-commerce players, Otto, Tchibo and the Avocadostore, and have started pilot projects to enter the North American market, too.

OUR STARTUPS ABOUT COOPERATING WITH BIG COMPANIES

Jonne Hellgren

CEO RePack

We believe that the world needs to transform the existing and predominantly linear economy into a circular one: innovative, disruptive and fearless startups with a strong will for change can work with traditional corporations that buy into these ideas, and make the change possible on a larger scale.

Suvi Haimi

CEO Sulapac

For a small startup, achieving global reach is not easy, and therefore it is valuable to partner up with big players, like we have done with Stora Enso, for example, to accelerate our international roll-out and make a bigger impact faster. In terms of realizing our mission – saving the world from plastic waste – we believe in the power of cooperation in a wider sense: we have to take an interdisciplinary approach and work together with all stakeholders across industries and sectors to drive the circular economy

THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY FOR COMPANIES

Landbell Group’s CEO and founder of the Green Alley Award Jan Patrick Schulz addressing producers at the 2018 Green Alley Award:

The Green Alley Award is a unique opportunity to be at the heart of new trends, grow your market position and benefit from the smartest innovators in your industry.

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