#10 - Upcycling and circularity in acoustic products
Release Date: 04/23/2024
#10 - Upcycling and circularity in acoustic products
Start-ups in Sustainability
Acoustic panels and dividers help improve the atmosphere in rooms by absorbing sound and reducing noise. Normally these products are made of virgin materials and can be difficult to recycle at the end of their lifecycle. wanted to solve this problem and therefore co-founded Impact Acoustic . This start-up uses waste as a resource and designs circular acoustic products. Impact Acoustic’s latest product is entirely made of cotton fibres deemed too short to make yarn and thus were disposed of in the past. In this episode, Sven talks about why was founded, how they use recycled PET bottles as...
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#9 - Sustainable sips – redefining outdoor coffee
Start-ups in Sustainability
How can you prepare a good cup of coffee when you are outdoors – say on a mountain hike or ski tour – without bringing much equipment or creating lots of waste?
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#8 - Using the potential of seaweed to revolutionise packaging
Start-ups in Sustainability
Seaweed represents one of the most abundant biomass resources on earth. It also grows ten times faster than land plants, captures CO2, and produces oxygen for humans and other species. Despite being a renewable resource, the potential of seaweed is not used often in the production of goods.
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#7 - Tackling the taboo topic (in German)
Start-ups in Sustainability
Products for sexual health are not necessarily the first category that we think about when it comes to making the world more sustainable. For example, condoms were a taboo topic for a long time: many people bought them secretly and avoided talking about them.
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#6 - Circularity and responsible sourcing in watchmaking (rerun)
Start-ups in Sustainability
Many companies try to make their existing product offerings more sustainable and ecologically compatible. But only a few firms subject their product development fully and from the very beginning to the principles of complete circularity and responsible sourcing.
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#5 - Travelling as a mindful optimist
Start-ups in Sustainability
Today many travellers ask themselves which mode of transport they should use for their next trip. Airplanes are fast but have a large carbon footprint. Trains are more sustainable but feature only few overnight connections with which people can bridge the longer travel time by sleeping. And buses also do well in eco-friendliness but are less comfortable for overnight travel because passengers cannot lie down.
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#4 - The scent of sustainability
Start-ups in Sustainability
How can scents enhance our well-being and mental health in the workplace? And what role does 'ma' – the Japanese concept of negative space – play in this context?
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#3 - The trade-off between sustainable fashion and affordability
Start-ups in Sustainability
What happens when two former scouts and childhood friends from Lenzburg meet for a beer and get the idea to start a business? They build one of the trendiest and well-known sustainable fashion labels in Switzerland.
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#2 - Improving impact measurement with collective intelligence
Start-ups in Sustainability
Sustainability performance and a company’s impact are often measured using ESG standards (environmental, social, governance). However, some experts criticise ESG frameworks for their focus on financial measures, risk assessment and the impact of ESG on a company rather than a company’s impact on the environment and society.
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#1 - Impact investing – balancing sustainability and financial return
Start-ups in Sustainability
Can you build wealth with a clear conscience? Are healthy financial returns compatible with a positive social and environmental impact?
info_outlineAcoustic panels and dividers help improve the atmosphere in rooms by absorbing sound and reducing noise. Normally these products are made of virgin materials and can be difficult to recycle at the end of their lifecycle.
Sven Erni wanted to solve this problem and therefore co-founded Impact Acoustic . This start-up uses waste as a resource and designs circular acoustic products. Impact Acoustic’s latest product is entirely made of cotton fibres deemed too short to make yarn and thus were disposed of in the past.
In this episode, Sven talks about why Impact Acoustic was founded, how they use recycled PET bottles as a raw material, and what the impact would be on the company if the world stopped using plastic.