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Start-up looking to revolutionise eco-shopping with vending machines to refill plastic bottles

Rather than discarding plastic bottles, customers can use vending-machine style “refill-o-mats” in shops to refill them. Swapp

Swapp also plans to go beyond the world of retail by putting its refill-o-mats in other buildings such as blocks of flats in a bid to shake up shopping and shrink the mountains of plastic waste the world produces each year.

Warsaw to be transformed with a 237-km-long green-route connecting 129 places across the capital

The route from the Warsaw Development Forum will encompass the whole city and connect squares, parks, gardens, allotment gardens, forests, reserves, forts, and selected cemeteries into coherent walking and cycling trails with unified spatial identification.​

Eco firms go global with electromobility

A host of Polish firms are helping spread green technology around the world.

Grass stop: Warsaw’s first environmentally friendly bus stop opens for business

Along with being good for birds the revolutionary bus reduces dust and absorbs CO2.

Jewellery brand turns old plastic into gorgeous eco-collection

With the widespread use of plastic creating environmental challenges globally, jewellery designer Anna Orska teamed up with plastics recycler Weronika Banaś to create the stunning New Stone collection.

EUR 2.26 bln earmarked for green investments in 2020 – climate minister

This year, nearly PLN 10 billion (EUR 2.26 bln) will go to support green investments, Climate Minister Michal Kurtyka has said. He stated the money would be allocated for, among other projects, eco-friendly transport, energy efficiency and photovoltaic development.

Eco firm launches new initiative to prevent food waste with home fermentation kit

Inspired by the increasingly popular kombucha fermented tea, MakeGrowLab’s Babcha Boy helps not only with the fermentation of tea, but also of local herbs, fruits and vegetables. 

Reserved launches eco-friendly collection to offset fashion industry damage

With 460 shops worldwide and selling over 210,000,000 items of clothing per year, the massive international scale means that the company's decisions can have an environmental impact well beyond Poland’s borders. 

Making a wheel difference: the Polish charity donating bikes to Ukrainian war orphans

Run by the Arka Ecological Foundation, the Bike Helps initiative aims to give a chink of light to kids left bereaved by the war in the East.

Not a bad start for a start-up: Pułway eco firm wins Chivas Venture 2020

MakeGrowLab beat off competition from 170 entrants to take first place in the Polish edition of the competition and will now go on to compete in Canada against 25 others for the World prize and 1 million USD.

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