Your marketplace for sustainable solutions
Justin Hatchett, left the corporate sector just 18 months ago to start up Green Furniture Hub and he’s on roll. His company that diverts office furniture from landfill has been operating for just 18 months and it’s growing – with staff and warehouses and a fleet of trucks in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
The trend for sustainable refits is on the up, says Paul Mead from Kernel Property. In the past six months, clients have been calling me rather than the other way around.“
Sydney-based coffee pod company, Tripod Coffee, has a sustainable proposition for its customers: a premium coffee in truly compostable packaging that ends up as green electricity and organic fertiliser.
The trouble with marketing canned water is communicating to people that it is, in fact, water, and not soft drink or beer. The trouble with not producing water in aluminium cans, however, is far greater – it probably won’t get recycled.
Nature strips, urban canopy or pocket parks –they’re desirable to most people. But ensuring they become part of urban life requires collaboration and clear guidelines.
“We think we’re the only commercial scale, off-grid winery in Australia,” Fiona Weller concludes. This is leading-edge in low impact winemaking.
City workers don’t want to give up tasty takeaway food, and vendors need to serve customers quickly. So, a new product has combined sustainability and convenience in a bid to tackle food waste.
Naomi Tarszisz wants to make reusable meal containers as ubiquitous as their coffee cup cousins. She founded RePlated to do just that, and has a convenient formula in mind to get people using them.