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In both Canada and the United States, new companies and technologies are changing the world as we know it, faster than ever before.
We’re working with these cutting-edge companies to design circularity into their business models, and to discover how they can enable the transition to a circular economycircular economyA systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on three principles, driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature..
Collaborating with city governments helps us understand how the circular economy can be implemented in dynamic and diverse urban environments, and how citizens, the environment, and the economy will benefit.
We're all going to have to come together, and Ellen and the Foundation have done an excellent job creating an opportunity for partnership and progress.
North American circular examples
Planetarians
Apeel
Austin
Alternative meat made from food by-products
Planetarians is an ingredient technology company that transforms unavoidable by-products into alternative meat using a process called Solid State Fermentation. The process uses fungi to turn waste carbohydrates from the vegetable oil, brewing and distilling industries into protein.
