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Vegware are the only company In the UK to develop, manufacture and distribute a full range of completely compostable food packaging and catering disposables.

Spruce Carpets, a community enterprise, uplift, refurbish, supply, deliver and fit used carpets and carpet tiles for residential, domestic and commercial customers.

Juice upgrades their customers’ lighting to LED by offering a leasing model for LED lighting, based on the concept that a business customer only needs light, but does not need to own the light fixtures and fittings.

Jaw Brew in partnership with Aulds the Bakers has created a zero waste, low alcohol beer from leftover bread rolls. The “Hard Tack” beer is now available to buy around Glasgow.

Peel Tech is a Scottish invention from Kinross which takes waste from a typical potato peeler separating waste skin and compacting potato starch so that drains are free from waste and water is not polluted by the starches, causing eutrophication.  The technology is being rolled out across typical “Fish and Chip” shops in Scotland and

OI currently produce around 2 million bottles per day and up to 800 million per annum. They do this using up to 20% recycled flint, 70% recycled green and 25% recycled amber glass.

Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture take the by-products of one aquatic species provides food for another in an innovative trial taking place in Loch Fyne.

Celtic Renewables an innovative start-up company formed to commercialise a process for producing a superior next generation biofuel (and other high value sustainable products) from the by-products of biological industries.

CelluComp is a company which turns nano fibres from root vegetables into an environmentally friendly thickener for paint.

CCL North offer secure IT recycling and refurbishment as well as WEEE recycling. They are currently looking to set up a re-use facility for general WEEE.