Exciting Visit from Prince William! 👑🎉
Today, we were honoured to welcome
@KensingtonRoyal
to Notpla as part of his visit to
@earthshotprize
winners.
It was a great privilege to showcase the home of our innovative sustainable packaging solutions. 🙌
#EarthshotPrize
#Notpla
Scaling renewable solutions is crucial to eliminating single-use plastic. Fortunately, Prince William and
@EarthshotPrize
are supporting us in this effort. 🌊🌿
Our co-founders and co-CEOs attended
@EarthshotPrize
Trustees meeting as Winners of this year’s Earthshot Prize!🎉
We have some VERY exciting news to announce today! 💥
Notpla is a finalist of the
#EarthshotPrize
, a "Nobel-like prize for the environment" led by Prince William, designed to incentivise change and help repair our planet over the next ten years. 🌍
"No one wants to live in a world full of plastic waste but it’s not too late to act. There’s never been a greater time to use natural solutions to solve the plastic challenge.”
- Build a Waste-Free World Winner,
@Notpla
#EarthshotPrize
We are at mile 23 Of London Marathon handing out Lucozade Sport orange in Oohos! GOOD LUCK to all runners! We can’t wait to cheer you all on!! Any of our followers who are running?
#londonmarathon
#VMLM
#madetomove
Tonight is the night!
@EarthshotPrize
we’ll be awarding the Winners of the Earthshot Prize 2022. 🌍 As one of the fifteen finalists, we can't wait to celebrate incredible solutions to repair our planet! and discover who will be named as their Winners🤞
#EarthShotPrizeBoston2022
Thanks to the
@EarthshotPrize
and
@KensingtonRoyal
for creating such an amazing platform, and for believing in our solution. And thanks David Beckham for making our heartbeat stop when you said “Notpla”!
Massive thanks to the amazing Notpla team, past and present, and everyone who's supported us on this rollercoaster of a journey, at work and at home!
You don't win an
@earthshotprize
on your own.
During the visit,
@KensingtonRoyal
unveiled Notpla’s new range of Earthshot-branded, seaweed-lined takeaway boxes and learned about our plans to launch the next major fundraising round.💪
He also had a hands-on opportunity to create two of Notpla’s sustainable seaweed products.
What an honour to be recognized by the
@EarthshotPrize
2022 for our efforts in creating sustainable packaging solutions. Explore more about our mission and the potential of natural materials in pioneering
#plasticfree
solutions here:
#SustainableFuture
Winners of
@EarthshotPrize
2022,
@notpla
's innovative packaging solutions use seaweed and plants as alternatives to single-use plastics. Find out more about how circular startups like
@NotPla
are pioneering innovative
#climate
solutions:
We also want to acknowledge the other two finalists in our category - the City of Amsterdam, and Fleather, the finalists in the other categories, and all the nominees!
Notpla's seaweed-coated boxes now in the US with
@EarthBrands
! 🇺🇸Unlike plastic linings that pollute, our seaweed coating protects food integrity sustainably.
Experience the magic at US venues & events.
Contact notpla
@earthbrands
.earth to get them.🌿
#Notpla
#NotplaCoating
Prince William teamed up with popular YouTube channel Sorted Food to create the first Earthshot Burger 🍔, which aimed to highlight the achievements of three recent winners of the Prince's Earthshot Prize.
Read more here 👉
Prince William has added a new title to his resume - Chef.
The royal served up a surprise to some hungry members of the public in London.
@Brett_McLeod
#9News
No one wants to live in a world full of plastic waste but it’s not too late to act. Let’s inspire others to join us in the fight against single use plastics. Tag anyone who should use our seaweed packaging instead of plastic
Notpla is now a Certified B Corporation! 🎉🌊🌿
This incredible recognition reaffirms our ongoing commitment to sustainability and positive impact.
Discover more about our journey and the difference we’re making in our latest blog post.⬇️
#Notpla
Notpla logo spotted on Times Square! 🗽
We’re proud to be part of Norrsken Impact/100 2023 – the annual list of the world’s 100 most promising impact startups! 🌍 As part of this announcement, our company logo was displayed on the Nasdaq Tower in Times Square, in New York!
The
@EarthshotPrize
team is about to do a takeover of the screens at Piccadilly Circus to celebrate the 15 Finalists! If you are around, join and meet our co-founders and co-CEOs,
@ppaslier
and Rodrigo Gonzalez!
📍London, Piccadilly Circus
💥Bad day for the plastics industry!
Congratulations to the
#EU
Parliament for their decision to ban
#SingleUsePlastics
! Let’s prove to the rest of the world we can live without.
Times Square takeover! 🗽
#Notpla
is making a splash on the iconic Times Square billboard in New York! 🔥
Thank you,
@MorganStanley
's Sustainable Solutions Collaborative, for this opportunity to showcase to the world our mission to make packaging disappear. 🌍
♻️ A unique closed loop recycling project
💧A reduction of over 215,000 plastic bottles
🙌 The largest ever trial of
@OohoWater
capsules
London Marathon Events today committed to becoming a world leader in sustainable mass participation events.
#LondonMarathon
♻️
The plastic sachet, the ultimate symbol of our grab and go, convenience-addicted lifestyle. Our oceans are saturated with these uncollectable, unrecyclable, contaminated, valueless little packets. It's time for seaweed and plant-based alternative!
#notpla
#passonplastic
We’re proud to announce our €50,000 sustainable packaging fund for our restaurant network, along with extending the availability of
@notpla
packaging to supporters on
@leinsterrugby
match days ♻️
Read more:
Notpla featured on BBC World News for revolutionising sustainable packaging! 🌊🌿
Thank you
@BBCWorld
for the coverage. 🙌🗞️
Watch the reportage below to learn more about our innovative solutions to make packaging disappear!
#Notpla
#BBC
#sustainablepackaging
#seaweed
A great afternoon hearing how local sustainable produce is being used at the new
@DuchyNursery
restaurant, The Orangery - and great to find packaging from our friends at
@notpla
here too!
We’re thrilled to team up with
@LucozadeSport
to use Ooho for their sports events. Bye bye plastic! 1st events: Richmond Marathon 16 Sept and Tough Mudder in West Sussex on 29 Sept. 🏃♀️🏃♂️
#passonplastic
#Notpla
x
@keepitmack
industry-first sustainable clothes detergent sachet has been featured on
@PackagingEurope
! 🙌
We're disrupting the industry and replacing traditional PVA/PVOH packaging ❌. Read more about it here. ⬇️
To help drive sustainability through the sector, our
@JustEat_es
team has rolled out the availability of
@notpla
's seaweed-lined takeaway boxes, which are home-compostable and recyclable, to restaurants across
#Spain
. Read more below
Exciting news, cricket fans!🏏
Our
#Notpla
boxes are now at the iconic
#KiaOval
! This is more than a game, it's a step towards a sustainable future.
If you’re curious and want to find out more check out our latest blog post for all the details! ⬇️
Top 3 reasons we use seaweed for making Oohos
⭐️It is one of the fastest growing 🌱 in the 🌎
⭐️It naturally biodegrades in 4-6 weeks (no industrial composter required!)
⭐️Unlike PLA and other corn-based plastics, seaweed doesn’t compete with food crops.
Intrigued by the workings of
@notpla
? Join Sam Bentley in this exciting behind-the-scenes journey on our YouTube channel!
Be a part of our story, we promise it's worth watching. 🌊🌿
#Notpla
#Sustainability
#EarthshotPrize
Go watch Sam Bentley meet the team behind
@notpla
on our YouTube channel here:
👉👉 👈👈
Don't forget to subscribe for more inspiring content on YouTube 🌎💚
A sachet whose shelf-life matches the shelf-life of its content. Cool huh? Our Ooho sachets are 100% made of seaweed and plants, which means that they naturally biodegrade in only 6-8 weeks. You can throw them up in general waste, or even in your home compost!
#notpla
#ooho
Happy
#WorldEnvironmentDay
! 🌍 Let's
#BeatPlasticPollution
together, one innovation at a time.
Have a look at how we fight plastic and celebrate world environment day every day 💪⬇️
We are thrilled to announce that we just closed a £10 million Series A financing round led by Horizons Ventures, with the participation from existing investors
@AstanorVentures
, Lupa Systems and
@torch
Capital!💰 🙌
The Seaweed Revolution book written by Vincent Doumeizel with our limited edition
#Notpla
Paper dust jacket officially launched last week! 🎉
Our sustainable packaging is revolutionising the industry and we're proud to contribute to this inspiring book. 🌊🌿
#SeaweedRevolution
We're extremely happy to announce the launch of the
#Notpla
takeaway
#box
: the world's first seaweed-lined box! We've teamed up with
@JustEatPLC
to launch an environmentally friendly option for the
#takeaway
sector!
As part of our mission to tackle
#plasticpollution
across the industry, we've teamed up with
@notpla
to launch the world’s first seaweed-lined box for the takeaway sector. The box is fully recyclable and can decompose in four weeks in a home compost! 😀💚
We have rebranded!
#oohowater
becomes
#notpla
. Notpla is the new name of our company as well as the name of the material our products are made out of. We are not plastic, not PLA, we are something totally different. We are Notpla.
"Instead of using plastic and man-made materials that are virtually indestructible, we look to nature for the answers," 2022 Earthshot Prize finalist Pierre Paslier says on his sustainable packaging company Notpla.
Notpla has been featured in an insightful article by
@thetimes
, highlighting seaweed's remarkable potential in driving sustainability and saving the world. 🗞️🙌
Check it out ⬇️
Thank you
@lucysiegle
and
@thetimes
!🌊🌿
We’re thrilled to share we’ve been announced as a Grand Prize winner of
@TomFord
Plastic Innovation Prize! 🏆
This prize, powered by
@Lonelywhale
, is a tremendous recognition of all the incredible work from our team to fulfill our mission to make packaging disappear! 👏
Lunch break! Who gets really annoyed each time they order sushi seeing so much plastic waste with every little soy sauce bottle? 🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ we gotcha! Biggest news of the week: our Ooho sachets are now working with soy sauce! Who's interested?
#notpla
#plasticfreelunch
Excited to announce we are now trialing our sauce sachets at 10 Just Eat restaurants across London for the next 7 weeks! Just order something that comes with KETCHUP at one of the partner restaurants listed here and you'll get an Ooho Ketchup Sachet with your order!
@justeatuk
Time to celebrate
#NationalBurgerDay
with an
@EarthshotPrize
Burger! 🍔
We were amazed to see Prince William serving these delicious burgers, packed in our plastic-free Notpla box, to unsuspecting diners in
@sortedfood
video.
Head over to their YouTube channel for the recipe!
The problem with plastic starts long before it reaches our oceans and beaches, that’s why we have signed the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment along with over 275 other organisations to help eliminate plastic pollution.
#lineinthesand
#ooho
#oohowater
#passonplastic
Our alternative to fossil fuel-based thin-film plastic was put to the test. 👨🔬
To evaluate whether our materials would biologically break down in the environment without causing any harm, our material even ended up in a simulated whale’s gut! 🐋
#tomfordplasticinnovationprize
Notpla,
@notpla
, created with a mission to Make Packaging Disappear, is the winner of
@OneShow
Green Pencil, the award that recognises the most environmentally conscious creative work💧🌿
@JenCarsonTaylor
@EarthshotPrize
We aim to continue making a change within the packaging industry and ultimately make single-use plastic packaging disappear. Focused on expanding in the market through exciting collaborations. We cannot reveal our next big idea just yet but keep up with our socials for more.🌊🌿
Psst, it's not just cups! 🤫
@WIRED
expose on the 'eco-friendly' disposable containers proliferating food service with microplastic.
With imminent
#SingleUsePlastic
bans, now's the time for next gen solutions like
#Notpla
leaving no trace!
Skipping Rocks Lab was the name of our company whilst "Ooho" was (and is) the name of the edible pods.
Now we have
#rebranded
creating a new company name, "Notpla", which is also the name of the material that
#Oohos
and the other products we offer are made from!
#notpla
Discover the world of Notpla and its importance as a true sustainable packaging alternative in this amazing RE:TV video! 💡
Let's make a difference and promote sustainable living. 🌊🌿
#notpla
#sustainability
#RETV
Did you know only 9% of plastic is recycled? 😱
Check out our latest IG post to discover how we at Notpla are tackling this issue head-on, harnessing the power of nature's materials. 🌊🌿
Let's pave the way to a plastic-free future! 💙
#Notpla
#startupstory
📹50% of plastic packaging is used once and thrown away, often ending up in the ocean!
Enter
@ppaslier
&
@notpla
👉 a revolutionary material made out of brown
#seaweed
and plants 🌿 It biodegrades naturally within weeks ♻️
🇪🇺 backed via
@AstanorVentures
✔
The New York Times features Notpla for using seaweed to replace single-use plastic. 🌊🌿
Thanks,
@SominiSengupta
, for highlighting the importance of sustainability and showcasing our innovative solutions.
Read more about it here. ⬇️
#seaweed
#notpla
Notpla has been featured as a case study on the
@royalsociety
website, as part of their campaign celebrating innovation in manufacturing across the UK. 🙌 🇬🇧
Check it out!🌊🌿
Jedes Jahr landen Millionen Tonnen Plastikmüll in den
Weltmeeren. Eine Lösung heißt
#Kreislaufwirtschaft
. Eine andere kommt von
@notpla
. Die Verpackungen des
#StartUps
bestehen auf Pflanzen, man kann sie sogar mitessen.
#findenwirgut
Thanks
@Treehugger
and
@feistyredhair
for such a nice and comprehensive article about what we’re up to! It’s been a crazy year but the fight against single use plastic goes on! Watch this space...
With Sky Ocean Ventures, we can now accelerate our fight against
#singleuseplastic
. The commitment Sky has shown to reducing ocean plastics by communicating this issue to the world makes them a natural partner for us.
We’re excited to announce our first investments
@ch2oose
&
@OohoWater
with Sky Ocean Ventures - both could help change people's dependency on the humble plastic bottle
#PassOnPlastic
🙌🏼🐋