With climate rising and carbon scaling becoming a prevalent concern for industry and tech, much of the future of business startups is centering around energy efficiency and minimizing waste. Companies looking to build on environmental concerns are showing up in a wide range of fields with promising outlooks to reinvent current standards on our lives.
Using electricity instead of fuel has proved to be a power move for automakers and public transit systems in the last few years. Skeleton Technologies looks to address a running issue of energy supply for these powerplants. Standard graphene-based, high power density cells require little maintenance and ample cranking voltage to start in even the coldest temperatures, all with little waste from production.
Plastic utensils have contributed millions to plastic waste each year. With the chemical makeup of different plastics making recycling difficult, Bakeys takes a novel approach by making eating utensils out of flour. The Indian company promotes its edible cutlery as useful with no leftovers to end up in the landfill.
Water consumption is a triple threat to the ecosystem. Along with the primary water waste, the energy to provide running hot water adds to the carbon footprint of a necessary resource that’s becoming scarcer to populations that need it. Cirrus showerheads are designed to maximize the jets of water people use, so they use less water. The atomized spray is considered far more efficient than the typical cascade that wastes over 40 percent of water used in personal hygiene.
Bowery Farms is combining a business model with community support in the form of vertical farms operating in dense urban areas. City residents have noted a lack of access to fresh produce and high overhead costs in local mass supermarkets. Sourcing out to restaurants and food banks, Bowery aims to reintroduce fresh foods to city diets without a doubt of its sanitation.
Continuing with sanitation, many people have a concern with the use of inorganic pesticides sprayed to kill infestations. Holganix developed a system utilizing microorganisms to keep the populations down and create an ecosystem to negate damage by invasive species while promoting nutrient delivery to the land. Marketing to large farms and landscaping outlets, the company cultivates hundreds of fungi and microorganisms to keep its Integrated Pest Management. Cutting costs, as well as carbon footprint, is what makes companies in green technology profit and thrive as they take off from their initial startups.