Recycling of post-consumer plastic wastes into moulded boards for manufacturing of furniture, panels and other durable consumer goods.
Read More about Turning Plastic Waste into Durable Consumer GoodsHandcrafting of refillable water bottles made from locally abundant bamboo as an alternative to single-use plastic bottles, particularly in the tourism sector, and as an additional income source for l...
Read More about Circular Bamboo Bottles for Sustainable TourismProduction of recycled plastic thread from discarded plastic bags for use in handloom weaving with a cotton warp to create totes, bags, and other woven products.
Read More about Traditional Weaving Repurposes Discarded Plastic Bags into Durable Woven ProductsEstablishment of local cocoa farming within a regenerative, zero-waste agroforestry system and the artisanal processing of cocoa beans into single-origin Lao chocolate bars.
Read More about Regenerative Cocoa AgricultureTransforming naturally-shed sheaths of the areca nut palm, a previously-discarded agricultural waste, into biodegradable packaging products to replace plastic packaging in the food sector.
Read More about Areca Nut Palm Sheaths as a Biodegradable Plastic Packaging AlternativeRepurposing of polypropylene plastic waste into nursery growing bags and granules for production of plastic goods for use in farming.
Read More about Repurposing plastic waste into nursery grow bags and for other agricultural applicationsRedesign of consumer goods plastics packaging for lower packaging weight and/or volume and introduction of refill stations. Started with partial shifts to using recycled plastics and to replacing non...
Read More about Beyond Disposables – Towards Circular Plastic PackagingThe sago plantation and its processing supports the circular economy transition by making efficient use of natural resources (resource efficiency), and by recovering biomass waste (resource circularit...
Read More about Sago as Alternative Starch SourceIndustrial symbioses for reuse of steel byproducts and slags in manufacturing of cement, concrete and other products. Resource efficiency through exchange and collaboration on best practices between t...
Read More about Creating an eco-industrial parkSustainable, low input coffee farming and selective harvesting to prevent berry fermentation and to enable the use of previously discarded coffee husk to be processed into a herbal cascara (or coffee ...
Read More about Premium cascara tea from previously discarded coffee wasteProduction of bio-resins for diverse packaging and product applications using a mix of lignin rich coffee husk and starch-rich agro residues (from sweet potatoe, corn or cassava).
Read More about Bioplastics made from coffee husk and agricultural by-productsUse the organic byproducts from cinnamon cultivation, processing and distillation as a substitution for the use of coal in cinnamon drying.
Read More about Using cinnamon waste as fuel for product drying
