The 2022 Competition is kicking off!
Interested in competing?
First step is to attend the virtual Material Supplier Pitch Event.
February 28 • 6-8pm
Join us to hear from the Material Suppliers about their materials and start ideating about how to reuse these materials into a new product or service!
During the opening pitch event, you will hear from businesses and institutions consistently generating or collecting by-product, surplus or otherwise underutilized materials streams in Austin, Texas that could be put to higher and better use in new social enterprises.
Join us for a virtual presentation to meet the material suppliers, learn more about these materials, and network with other [RE]verse Pitch participants.
This event is free and open to the public, but your RSVP is requested.
Attendance is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to compete for an Innovation Fellows Prize valued at $16,500.
Meet the 2022 Material Suppliers
ACC Bioscience Incubator / EQO: Rectangular plastic boxes with a plastic insert containing holes
Austin Creative Reuse: Decorator fabric samples
Austin Creative Reuse: Cuts of high-quality fleece
KIPP Texas Public Schools: School lunch 1/2 pint milk cartons
Rent Equip: Used tracks from compact construction equipment
Travis County: Bulletproof vests
GET INVOLVED
Are you…
An Austin business with a local waste product?
An entrepreneur interested in starting a business that has a positive social impact? Or an established business professional interested in a creative way to diversify your revenue?
A service provider that works with start-ups or small businesses?
An experienced creative, technical or business professional interested in mentoring others?
INSPIRATION
For-profit and non-profit enterprises across the country are demonstrating the value can be created from waste. Get inspired by these local, national, and global reuse and remanufacturing enterprises:
Classic Childhood creates a line of children’s rompers from men’s dress shirts.
Pentatonic turns items like smartphone glass, plastic bottles, and more into furniture.
Made of Air takes used wood waste and creates a thermoplastic that locks in embodied carbon.
Rhizoform creates insulated packaging using mycelium-based alternatives to replace plastic foam.
Matriark Foods upcycles farm surplus and fresh-cut remnants into healthy, delicious, products for food service: schools, hospitals, and food banks.
Patagonia uses discarded cotton scraps to create Responsibili-Tee® T-shirts.
Rubies in the Rubble creates relishes, ketchups & mayos from fresh ingredients that would otherwise go to waste.
Outlander Materials is creating a non-plastic foil from wastewater generated from beer brewing processes.
St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County, Oregon: Candles into skateboard wax, window glass into gifts, dog beds from industrial scrap, and more.
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