Waste Prevention

Spintex is a UK-based company developing next-generation materials inspired by spider silk. By mimicking nature’s designs, the company aims to transform traditional textile manufacturing, which often relies on petrochemicals, high energy use, and unsustainably sourced raw materials. Spintex’s innovative technology replicates the spider’s unique fiber-spinning process, creating fibers at room temperature by pulling from a liquid protein gel—without the use of harsh chemicals. This process is far more efficient than producing plastic fibers, with water as the only byproduct.

Worn Again Technologies, a UK-based company, is dedicated to revolutionizing textile recycling by creating a circular economy for fabrics. Their innovative process enables textiles to be continuously recycled into new products. Worn again has developed a process that separates, decontaminates, and recaptures raw materials from mixed fibers, such as polyester and cotton, and turns them into virgin-like materials. Using a closed-loop chemical recycling process, Worn Again maximizes material recovery while enhancing environmental sustainability. 

Terpenoil, a Brazilian company, specializes in the production of disinfectants, surface cleaners, air treatments, and chemical specialties derived from plant-based and renewable sources. The company provides a range of products for professional cleaning, odor control, glass treatment, air purification, and household cleaning. Many of these products are available in super-concentrated capsules to minimize plastic use.

Eco Safety Products is a company dedicated to developing and manufacturing environmentally friendly building materials and coatings. The product range includes paints, sealers, stains, and adhesives for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. These offerings are characterized by low levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), non-toxicity, and safety for both indoor and outdoor use. Sustainability is a core focus, with water-based formulas replacing traditional solvent-based ones to reduce toxicity and flammability.

Pectcof is an innovative startup that transforms coffee pulp biomass, a byproduct of post-harvest coffee processing, into valuable bio-based materials. The company's flagship product, Dutch Gum®, is a groundbreaking hydrocolloid (thickening agent) that modifies textures, viscosities, and product stability, making it ideal for use in plant-based foods.

Nature Organics is a family-owned Australian company creating sustainable products since 1981. The company offers a variety of eco-friendly brands, including Earth Choice, Undo This Mess, My Soda, OC Naturals, and Natural State, all of which emphasize sustainability. Natures Organics uses recycled plastics and sustainably sourced ingredients, and it is committed to transitioning to 100% biodegradable plastics that can fully degrade into compost.

EcoaTEX is advancing sustainability in the textile industry with its eco-friendly approach to textile coatings, focusing on transforming natural, renewable resources into sustainable fibers, dyes, and leather alternatives. Their innovative technologies—Eco-finishing, Eco-fiber, and Bio-based Alternative Leather—utilize green chemistry and nanotechnology to reduce environmental impact.

CarbonFree’s SkyCycle™ technology is a groundbreaking solution for capturing CO2 emissions from hard-to-abate industrial sources and transforming them into valuable, carbon-negative products. SkyCycle™ captures carbon emissions before they enter the atmosphere, decarbonizes, and mineralizes the CO2, converting it into marketable, non-hazardous materials or permanently storable compounds. This process yields significant carbon value, helping to reduce global supply chain emissions, particularly Scope 3 emissions.

C​​rossing, an innovative startup based in Italy, is developing a new class of “Active Cross-Linking Agents” (ACLs) at competitive prices. ACLs can be applied in various fields due to their unique ability to bind different molecules using a “lock and key” mechanism similar to enzymes. The structures of ACLs are highly adaptable, allowing the creation of a diverse chemical library with varying properties such as activity, speed of action, performance, and industrial applications.

GreenLiT Pure Lithium™, an IBC Advanced Technologies, Inc. subsidiary, specializes in producing high-purity lithium, essential for lithium-ion batteries. The company's Direct Lithium to Product™ (DLP™) technology uses Molecular Recognition Technology™ (MRT™) to recover lithium with exceptional selectivity over competing elements like Mg, Ca, Na, K, and B. The process achieves a high purity of 99% lithium extraction yield, utilizing rapid bind-and-release kinetics for efficient loading and elution with fewer bed volumes.