Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur profile: Nick Oettinger, The Furniture Recycling Group

His recycling firm has grown from operating from a small yard six years ago, to a business with £3 million in turnover which employs 60 staff. Nick Oettinger now leads a team that recycles nearly a third of all mattresses in the UK. Here's how he did it.

Entrepreneurs

How artificial intelligence can solve food waste

Not everyone's kitchen is the same, and different food storage environments effect shelf life. EatBy App addresses this problem by learning as it's used over time.

Entrepreneurs

Food waste: there’s an app for that

Tessa Cook and Saasha Celestial-One founded London's first food sharing app just over a year ago. Now OLIO is a household name in the capital, having saved over 125,000 items of food from the bin in the past year alone.

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VOOM 2016 winners see value in waste

Virgin Media Business VOOM, the three-month nationwide search for the next big business idea crowned two companies out of 20,000 today: industrious start-up, MacRebur and fast-growth business, bio-bean.|Virgin Media Business VOOM, the three-month nationwide search for the next big business idea crowned two companies out of 20,000 today: industrious start-up, MacRebur and fast-growth business, bio-bean.

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Label technology to cut down on food waste gets cash to commercialise

A business producing labels designed to show how long a packet of food has been open is now backed by venture capital.

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Waste treatment company brings in £5.1 million

Sterecycle, a company that turns waste into soil improver and clean energy, has raised £5.1 million in a funding round led by Finance Yorkshire.