SPECIAL MENTION: Since sustainable shoe startup Rothy's launched in 2016, the company has repurposed over 41 million water bottles into their 3D-knitted women's footwear. The shoes come in a ...

A key advance to the company’s patented ­technology is a new growing medium: rather than grow in dirt, these crops grow in a reusable cloth made from recycled water bottles. Instead of being ...

Their inspiration came from the fact that while polystyrene is currently being recycled, this doesn’t solve the problem as the polystyrene still exists to eventually end up in landfills.