The TyeeScott Hamlin’s text-upcycling company Looptworks has kept about 5.6 million pounds of materials out of landfills, he says. #WhatWorks💡
#WhatWorks💡: Although Indigenous Peoples contributed nearly $50 billion to Canada’s economy in 2020, entrepreneurs may experience discrimination and not have the resources needed to grow their businesses. Andrea Smith reports.
#WhatWorks: Years after co-founding SFU’s first electric racing team, Gabriel Soares, Edward Chiang, Sumreen Rattan and Gurmesh Sidhu now lead a firm that makes generator-like energy storage systems from used EV batteries. 🚗🪫 Josh Kozelj reports.
#WhatWorks: CEO Felix Böck started ChopValue in 2016 to show other engineers how to turn trash like chopsticks into sustainable products.
But the 26-year-old German engineer didn’t plan on becoming the chopstick guy. 🥢 Grace Kennedy reports.
It would be a shopping experience free from the ecological harm done by traditional grocery stores with their plastic-wrapped produce and countless brands of processed snacks delivered by long lines of carbon-spewing trucks. 🫘
#WhatWorks: When sugar cane is crushed to make sugar, it turns into a pulpy material known as bagasse, which then gets turned into paper.
Sugar cane can be harvested up to four times per year — much quicker than the 30 years it may take for a tree to grow and be chopped down. 🗒️🌳🍬
#WhatWorks: Since 2023, Diaper Stork has offered compostable diapers to customers.
More recently, it piloted a high-heat process to turn compostable diapers into biochar — a substance that can be used for fertilizer and even to purify water.
Andy Engelson reports. 👶🧷
The Tyee#WhatWorks: Since 2023, Diaper Stork has offered compostable diapers to customers. More recently, it piloted a high-heat process to turn compostable diapers into biochar — a substance that can be used for fertilizer and even to purify water.
@andyengelson.bsky.social reports. 👶🧷
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“I’d say, ‘Otto, fill the boat and I’ll call all our friends.’ I’d say it’s $25 flat rate for a fish, people would come down, get a fish, and they’d all call each other.” 🎣
Josh Kozelj reports our latest #WhatWorks.
The Protein Problem: This Vancouver company found one in the rootlike structure of mushrooms. The Tyee’s latest in #WhatWorks. 🍄🥩