This company has an innovative process to efficiently extract and recycle metals and critical raw materials from electronics: https://www.mint.bio/

One more sustainable materials innovation to share: Ecovative makes packaging from mycelium, the root matrix of mushrooms https://mushroompackaging.com/ that is fully bio-based, home compostable, and biodegradable

Sharing another sustainable materials innovation: Kaneka is a Japanese company that creates Green Planet Compounds, which are PHA-based, biodegradable polymers produced via a revolutionary bio-fermentation process. They create home compostable / biodegradable cutlery, bags, straws, cups, and other packaging solutions. https://kanekagreenplanet.com/

Happy Earth Day! Did you know that Earth Day started because of pollution coming from the paper mill in Camas, WA? https://therevelator.org/camas-first-earth-day/

One of my ecochallenges is to share sustainable materials innovations, so here's one: Cruz foam makes foam to replace EPE and EPS out of 70% upcycled food waste (discarded crustacean shells turned into chitin). Their foam is certified as bio-based and home compostable. https://www.cruzfoam.com/

I'm lucky to work in Sustainability and be able to connect with companies with sustainable innovations that we could potentially use in our products or processes. Here's a cool innovation I read about for solar cell recycling: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-method-can-recycle-all-parts-of-a-modern-solar-cell-with-water-we-can-recycle-everything/

I switched out our dishwasher soap along with the all-purpose cleaner.