HP Vancouver

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

Getting ~6-7 hours of sleep but sleeping late affects my sleep quality. I'm actively working towards getting 8 hours of sleep and sleeping by 11pm to improve circadian rhythm

Purchased vegetables from local farmers at Vancouver Farmers Market who produce vegetables in a sustainable organic manner that is beneficial to the environment and health

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....

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:...

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