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CBS News featured our portfolio company, Eureka Recycling, and their important work to recovery valuable materials in Minnesota––800,000 pounds of recyclable material everyday. Closed Loop Partners' Infrastructure Group recently provided an over $10 million loan to Eureka Recycling, including $3 million from American Beverage and the Minnesota Beverage Association. Alongside the loan, The Recycling Partnership provided a grant to support this project. The financing enables key infrastructure updates for the best-in-class facility, further advancing a circular economy in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Learn more about Eureka Recycling here: https://hubs.la/Q02SXBVc0 #circulareconomy #recycling #innovation #investment #catalyticcapital #infrastructure #minnesota

Closed Loop Partners' Ventures Group is proud to announce our investment in Molg to scale the company's circular manufacturing processes for electronics and electrical components. The $5.5 million seed funding round is led by Closed Loop Partners' Ventures Group, with participation from Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, ABB Robotics & Automation Ventures, Overture , Elemental Impact and Techstars. "We invested in Molg because they are rethinking how critical materials can be recovered from electronics, addressing a historically overlooked source of valuable resources. Their process maximizes the value of recovered materials and allows for local recovery where materials are most needed––important parts of advancing the circular economy," said Aly Bryan, Investor on the Ventures Group team of Closed Loop Partners. Read more here: https://hubs.la/Q02SM67g0 #circulareconomy #supplychain #innovation #electronics #ewaste #ITAD #criticalminerals #venturecapital

CBS News features Balcones Recycling's facility in Brooklyn––where most residential recyclable material in New York City goes for processing at the end of their use. Balcones is a business unit of Circular Services, the largest privately held recycling company in the U.S. and a Closed Loop Partners company. “All the things we use and touch and buy and throw away, where do they come from, how are they made, what natural resource is extracted from the planet to make these things that we...take for granted?" Kara Napolitano, Education Director of Circular Services, shares more about how materials are processed at end of life, and where they go for their next use. Watch here: https://hubs.la/Q02SyNL00 #circulareconomy #recycling #innovation #newyorkcity #brooklyn #sustainability #impact

Our portfolio company, Trashie, was featured on the Drew Barrymore Show for their solution to divert used textiles from landfill. Trashie’s Take Back Bag can be purchased and filled with unwanted, clean textiles. Customers earn TrashieCash for recycling responsibly and are then connected to deals at their favorite retailers. Once consumers send back the Take Back Bag, Trashie sorts the collected textiles and connects them to available recovery pathways, helping keep 90% of collections out of landfill. Watch here: https://hubs.la/Q02SmQhc0 #circulareconomy #textile #fashion #sustainability #recycling #innovation

Our portfolio company, Sage Sustainable Electronics, processes 600,000+ devices annually, extending their useful life. Sage offers IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) services to safely and securely refurbish used IT assets for another life. With most electronics today disposed of after a single use––sending valuable materials to landfills and creating the need to manufacture more devices to meet growing demand––more companies are demanding a more secure and responsible way to manage IT assets at the end of their first use. Read more about Sage’s impact in our 2023 impact report: https://hubs.la/Q02S8RfH0 #circulareconomy #ewaste #reuse #reuserevolution #electronics #ITAD #technology #innovation

What is the #CompostingConsortium’s impact to date, and how can composters and municipalities get involved? Building on the last 3 years of work to advance the circularity of food scraps and food-contact compostable packaging, the Consortium launched two new platforms to engage directly with U.S. municipalities and composters to support the scale-up of composting infrastructure. > The Composting Consortium’s Composter Innovator Program: The free-to-access program brings U.S. composters together to make consolidated industry recommendations to policymakers, regulatory agencies, compostable packaging manufacturers and brands. All full-scale U.S. composters are invited to register interest here: https://hubs.ly/Q02S458-0 > The Composting Consortium’s Municipal Partner Platform: The free-to-access platform connects city and county officials with leaders nationwide to explore opportunities and challenges in starting and expanding organics collection and infrastructure programs. U.S. municipalities of all sizes and stages of development are encouraged to?reach out: https://hubs.ly/Q02S3YF20 Thank you to our partners at Happy Trash Can Curbside Compost, Compostable Field Testing Program, Eastman, Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI), The Foodbank, Inc., City of Boise, Black Earth Compost and more, for their participation in this video! #circulareconomy #compost #composting #innovation #partnership #compostablepackaging #packaging

Closed Loop Partners' Ventures Group is thrilled to announce our investment in Neutreeno, a deep tech startup spinning out of the University of Cambridge. Neutreeno's platform is transforming scope 3 emissions measurement, delivering best-in-class carbon insights and visualizations to drive efficiency and seamlessly integrate circularity and decarbonization in supply chains––while requiring minimal data points from suppliers. The $5M #seed financing is led by Regeneration.VC, with a strong syndicate of strategic mission-aligned investors including Closed Loop Partners, Remarkable Ventures, Scania Group, Beacon Venture Capital and Prequel Ventures. With this funding, Neutreeno will continue to accelerate its commercial growth, moving the needle on carbon emissions measurement and further advancing circularity and decarbonization. Spencer Brennan Jonathan Cullen Jobey Meacham Read more: https://hubs.la/Q02RRh9_0 #circulareconomy #supplychain #decarbonization #innovation #venturecapital #carbon #UniversityofCambridge

This #InternationalCoffeeDay, we are proud to share highlights on Closed Loop Partners' work to make coffee––and the cups that hold it––more circular: ansā, a Closed Loop Ventures portfolio company, launched their Ultimate Coffee Experience in New York City, to share their fresh, sustainable on-demand roasted coffee. ansa’s countertop roasting solution is poised to bring green coffee beans directly to the forefront of the trade and into the hands of the consumer, eliminating unnecessary transportation and packaging required and advancing on-demand, zero-pollution roasting. > Max Brenner @ Times Square: https://hubs.la/Q02RFDkP0 > Breads @ 5 Bryant Park: https://hubs.la/Q02RFGnG0 The Petaluma Reusable Cup Project hit over 100,000 returns, just six weeks after its launch! The NextGen Consortium, managed by Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy, launched the unprecedented collaborative project to drive reuse, with 30 restaurants in the City of Petaluma, CA, swapping single-use cups for to-go reusable cups at no cost, with widespread return points available across the city––helping customers drink their coffee (and other beverages) without waste: https://hubs.la/Q02RFH2P0 As reuse gains momentum, paper cup recycling also hit a new milestone in the U.S. this year, with increased cup acceptance at over 40 paper mills! The #NextGen Consortium and the Foodservice Packaging Institute joined forces to help more mills accept cups and reduce waste––with more on the way! https://hubs.la/Q02RFVhP0 #circulareconomy #coffee #innovation #partnership #reuse #recycling #supplychain #returnmycup #reuserevolution

“The Municipal Partner Platform represents the #CompostingConsortium ’s commitment to working with and creating space for different municipalities to learn from one another [and] to learn from us and the insights that we’ve gained [on starting and scaling organics programs],” says Paula Luu, Senior Director at Closed Loop Partners' Center for the Circular Economy. “We’re doing that in partnership with a big tent of partners: bringing in our corporate partners, bringing in our composters, bringing in our academic institutions that can all contribute to knowledge-sharing and sharing best practices.” Learn more about the Composting Consortium’s new free-to-access Municipal Partner Platform: https://hubs.la/Q02Rv3KV0 #circulareconomy #compost #composting #innovation #partnership

With New York #ClimateWeek in full swing, the #circulareconomy is at the center of conversations around addressing climate change. How does a circular economy help address the climate crisis? A circular economy reduces our reliance on emissions-intensive extraction and landfilling, with the potential to address up to 70% of emissions associated with our current models of production and consumption. By keeping materials and products in use for as long as possible, the circular economy tackles some of our greatest social and environmental challenges while unlocking $4.5 trillion in economic value by 2030. Read Closed Loop Partners' insights here: https://hubs.la/Q02R4rmv0 #climatechange #climate #innovation #ClimateWeekNYC #newyork