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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. It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. Sustainable companies are most likely to lead the next generation. The fashion industry alone dumps 2.1

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noissue raises $10M Series A to expand its global sustainable packaging platform

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Noissue , a New Zealand-based global packaging platform, wants to make sustainable packaging accessible to businesses of all sizes. Europe, China, Vietnam and Australia, and it works with its logistics partners to offset carbon emissions related to shipping, the company says. . Canada, the U.K.,

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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. He wanted to move the company in a direction to offer a new solution. “We

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VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags

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Yet, today it’s become one of the hottest topics for consumers, brands and investors alike with a record ~$6 billion of venture capital funding pouring into recommerce companies in 2021 and the market projected to reach $250 billion+ by 2027. It’s largely due to the changing cultural and societal value placed on sustainability.

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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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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

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Ghost is coming out of stealth Tuesday with its approach to excess inventory with a marketplace approach that enables brands and retailers to buy, sell and price that inventory in a discreet, efficient and sustainable way. Naturally, they started in apparel but are also seeing opportunity in beauty and home goods.

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