OUR FOUNDER, MARTINA ZUPAN WINS SHELL LiveWIRE AWARD Martina scoops £5,000 award for Alterwaste The Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future programme offers monthly start-up grants of £5,000, coaching and online business support to 16-30 year old ent ...
Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards
Our founder, Martina Zupan was honoured to be awarded with an Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at the Converge Challenge this month, alongside two other fantastic female entrepreneurs, Saskia Goeres and Ruth McLaren.Martina said:"Running a start ...
Packaging Innovations 2018
Last Wednesday, the Alterwaste team hit London for Packaging Innovations 2018!During the exhibition, we had the chance to check out some of the hottest innovations in packaging and hear some inspiring talks during the speaker's programme. It ...
Welcome Our Intern!
We are excited to welcome a new face to our office, our marketing and communications intern, Lara Winnington-Ingram!Lara will be working on all internal marketing initiatives, so keep an eye out for her on our social media channels, emails, and blog posts ...
SIE Fresh Ideas Winner 2018
FRESH IDEAS is Scotland’s longest running national student enterprise competition for ideas at an early stage. The competition is designed exclusively for students and recent graduates of all subjects.Our founder, Martina Zupan, applied for the competitio ...
Climate-KIC Accelerator 1
Trying to build a low-carbon business is not an easy job. We are always on the lookout for any support available that can help us grow faster. One plave that we have been interested in for a while and have been hoping to get involved with is Edinburgh Cen ...
Scottish EDGE Journey & Winning
Year 2017 was spectacular. After our business was formed we had to go and raise some money to help us establish the solid grounds of our business. Scotland is great for offering a number of funding opportunities for startups and there was one particula ...
Q&A with Passion for the Planet
Passion for the Planet is an online radio station that runs a blog called Passion for Fresh Ideas where they publish articles and interviews about the environment, ethical living, lifestyle, health&beauty, etc. Very recently we have had a Q&A s ...
New Designers Show London, July 2017
It has been absolutely a fantastic week at the New Designers Show in London. Such a variety amongst all the thousands of degree projects of the young designers. The atmosphere was fantastic, and the heat of the place! I mean really, it was like a sauna in ...
Publicity
Colleggtion has been featured on various news platforms - online as well as in printed media. The greatest thing to happen was the story being published by BBC Scotland! I am glad that people are able to read about all the green projects happening arou ...