Sustainability Geek

Innovations

A constantly growing list of creative products, services, and business models with positive social and environmental impacts that will hopefully serve as inspiration for your own ideas!


Allbirds

No nonsense footwear made from sustainable resources, plus recycled packaging materials.

Bolt Threads

A material solutions company inspired by nature to invent and scale more sustainable materials.

A simple ball designed to catch the microfibers that are shed from our clothing in the wash cycle.

Econyl

Recycled nylon waste from oceans and landfills that replace new nylon in manufacturing processes.

Fairphone

Expanding the market for ethical products by making a phone that creates positive impact across the value chain.

First Mile

Supports underdeveloped communities by collecting plastice bottles and transforming into fabric for the apparel industry.

FORMcard

A meltable bioplastic card that can be used to fix or modify everyday objects.

Galy

Lab grown real cotton to reduce traditional environmental impacts.

Guppyfriend

A simple solution to keep microplastic from our wash cycles from entering waterways.

Imperfect Foods

Eliminating food waste at the farm, store and home while creating a better food system for everyone.

Interface

Through their ReEntry program, they have been reclaiming and recycling vinyl backed carpet tiles for over 20 years.

kraftplex

Sustainably produced 100% cellulose wooden sheeting as an alternative to plastic sheeting.

Loop Industries

A technology company producing virgin quality PET resin and polyester fiber from recovered plastic waste.

Mango Materials

Natural biopolymer materials produced from biogas waste (methane) and bacteria as a biodegradable alternative to tradition plastics.

Nothing New

Sustainable sneakers brand using recycled post-consumer plastics, recycled fishing nets, recycled cotton, and recycled rubber.

Plastic Bank

Creating a regenerative, inclusive and circular economy by turning plastic waste into currency in poverty stricken areas.

Square Roots

Urban indoor farming enabled by tech providing traceability from seed to store.

Terracycle

A social enterprise focused on recycling typically non-recyclable items through the creation of innovative recycling platforms.

TextileGenesis

Technology platform combining blockchain and GS1 traceability standard to ensure radical transparecy from fiber to retail.

The Great Bubble Barrier

A fish and ship friendly barrier that prevents plastic waste from entering rivers.

The Ocean Cleanup

Scalable technologies for passive ocean plastic cleanup and interception of plastics in rivers.

The Shellworks

Compostable materials and packaging options made from seafood waste.

Tipa

Compostable packacking options that behave like plastice but are made from organic material, designed for the food and fashion industries.

Trashpresso

A mobile plastice and fabric waste recycling plant powered by the sun.

Unspun

Personalized clothing patterns based on a scan of your body shape that allows for the perfect fit and reduced inventory for brands.

Wastebased

Carbon negative company creating biodegradable mailers and polybags.

Werewool

Biodegradable fibers with tailored properties for color, stretch and moisture management customized using biotechnology.

Winnow Solutions

AI technology for chefs to measure, analyze and reduce food waste.


CONTACT

Feel free to contact me with suggestions or comments.

San Francisco Bay Area, US

  thesustainabilitygeek@gmail.com