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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

TechCrunch

We have been raised to believe in recycling, but it has mostly been a sham — only 9% of all plastic waste produced in 2018 was recycled. Startups that deliver sustainable personalization solutions that also improve business for retailers and brands fall into three categories: AR virtual try-on with shade matching.

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Why these co-founders turned their sustainability podcast into a VC-backed business

TechCrunch

When Laura Wittig and Liza Moiseeva met as guests on a podcast about sustainable fashion, they jibed so well together that they began one of their own: Good Together. The startup has gone through Snap’s Yellow accelerator , an in-house effort from the social media company that began in 2018.

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Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola and Unilever join AB InBev’s sustainable supply chain accelerator

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A clutch of the world’s largest consumer products and food companies are joining Budweiser’s parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev in backing an investment program to support early-stage companies focused on making supply chains more sustainable.

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Top 10 Hackathon ideas 2018

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Without further ado, here are the best hacks of 2018 in no particular order. – BENTOXX – A nanocomposite to build a sustainable industrial process. We really liked how the system can be used to monitor pH, turbidity, and temperature of water to build sustainable industrial processes. Category – Versatility.

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Berlin’s Blacklane raises $26M to expand its high-end chauffeur-driven sustainable car service

TechCrunch

After taking a majority stake in Havn, the Jaguar-hatched electric car service in London, in February, Blacklane said that it will be using this latest round of funding to continue expanding sustainable travel initiatives, and to continue expanding its existing business with more flexible options for riding.

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NHL turns to venue metrics data to drive sustainability

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To reduce its carbon footprint and mitigate climate change, the National Hockey League (NHL) has turned to data and analytics to gauge the sustainability performance of the arenas where its teams play. When the NHL began its sustainability journey, Mitchell’s role did not yet exist. We need fresh water; we need cold weather.

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Subspace Labs raises funding for a more scalable, sustainable blockchain

TechCrunch

Ethereum, for one, has announced plans to switch this year from its energy-intensive proof-of-work mechanism, which relies on mining rigs to validate transactions, to a more sustainable proof-of-stake system that allows users to help validate the network’s transactions by temporarily depositing, or staking, a certain amount of Ethereum tokens.