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Sustainable e-commerce startup Olive now ships beauty products, in addition to apparel

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Earlier this year, a startup called Olive launched its new shopping site and app with the goal of making e-commerce more efficient, convenient, and sustainable by offering a way for consumers to aggregate their orders from across retailers into single shipments that arrive in reusable packaging, not cardboard.

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As Allbirds goes public, sustainability is the mantra of the future

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It started with a humble, natural wool (and extremely comfortable) shoe, but Allbirds is not merely an apparel company today. The company is driving change in the industry through the open sourcing of materials for others to benefit, and in doing so, is becoming the industry’s standard bearer on sustainability practices.

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Jet co-founder Nate Faust is building a more sustainable e-commerce experience with Olive

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Olive works with hundreds of different apparel brands and retailers, including Adidas, Anthropologie, Everlane, Hugo Boss, Outdoor Voices and Saks Fifth Avenue. .” So he’s looking to change that with his new startup Olive , which consolidates a shopper’s purchases into a single weekly delivery in a reusable package.

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Reusable packaging startup Olive creates new model to keep clothes out of landfills

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Today, the company relaunches itself in the business-to-business space to work initially with apparel retailers on establishing a circular economy that delivers clothing and accessory orders in waste-free, reusable packaging, while also making consignment easier. 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies.

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Allbirds is investing in a plant-based leather substitute, plans faux-leather shoe drop in December

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The sustainability focused shoe maker Allbirds has taken another step to green its supply chain with a small $2 million investment in a new company called Natural Fiber Welding. It’s a natural addition for a company that has always billed itself as focused on environmental impact in other aspects of its apparel manufacturing.

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VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags

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It’s largely due to the changing cultural and societal value placed on sustainability. Within apparel and textiles alone, billions of dollar’s worth of products are destroyed, discarded or warehoused each year because brands overproduced or the item didn’t sell. That’s 5x faster growth than the overall retail market.

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New Zealand’s Humble Bee Bio is using bees to create bioplastics

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While the New Zealand-based company is still at an early stage – it’s about halfway through its proof of concept – if Humble Bee is successful, its bioplastics are likely to make it into the sustainable textiles industry. Humble Bee, which just raised $3.2 “It’s resistant to acids and bases. .

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