4 Mins Read Green Queen Media publishes “APAC Alternative Protein Industry Report – APAC Acceleration”, the 2nd edition of its award-winning Asia Alternative Protein Industry Report 2021.
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3 Mins Read California has taken steps to stop recycling symbols from appearing on plastics and other items that aren’t actually recyclable.
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4 Mins Read Based in Israel, Alfred’s FoodTech has developed a new production platform dedicated to manufacturing whole-cut meat alternatives.
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3 Mins Read Plant-based meat is now a separate category on Nature’s Basket, a leading retail chain and online grocery platform in India.
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Fashion is no longer about having the trendiest styles. Instead of chasing the latest must-have brands and designs, consumers are now pricing in the environmental footprint of their clothing. Many are choosing secondhand upon the realisation that buying preloved items helps to extend the lifespan of products, reduce unsustainable new production and divert waste from landfills. What the latest data shows is that while all sectors in sustainable fashion – recycled, upcycled, rental – have recorded rising popularity, it is secondhand fashion that will lead the pack and see the most explosive growth of all.
Below we list 8 sustainable fashion statistics that make the case for preloved.
eBay, the multinational e-commerce giant, has seen its preloved fashion listings increase every single year. Speaking to Cosmopolitan UK, eBay’s head of preloved, Emma Grant, noted that consumers are “much more aware now of the damage that fast fashion can cause than they were a few years ago”. Since 2017, there has been a 31% increase in the number of preloved fashion items listed on the site, proving a mainstream turn away from conventional fashion.
It’s clear that opting for preloved fashion items is a win for the environment. As reported by the BBC, increasing the lifespan of a garment for around 9 months longer will eliminate its environmental impacts by anywhere between 20% and 30% compared to buying new.
According to thredUP’s most recent resale report, the secondhand market is poised to hit a whopping US$64 billion within the next five years, and leading this growth is the resale sector, which is set to overtake the traditional thrift segment by 2024.
Analysts also predict that the total secondhand market will grow to US$80 billion by 2029, representing almost double the size of the US$43 billion fast fashion industry. The resale segment will lead the secondhand market at US$44 billion, while the traditional thrift sector will make up US$36 billion of the market.
It’s Gen Zs – consumers aged 23 and below – who are driving the secondhand shopping trend. According to thredUP, 80% of this age group say that there is no stigma associated with buying used fashion. The survey also found that 90% of Gen Z shoppers are open to shopping secondhand, particularly when “money gets tight”.
Lyst, the global fashion search platform, revealed in a 2019 fashion report that people are searching for sustainability-related keywords more than ever before. Alongside re-commerce keywords such as “resale” and “preloved”, searches for specific sustainable and organic materials have grown too. On average, sustainable fashion keyword searches have risen by 75% year-on-year.
Consumers are seeking sustainable bargains even though they’re stuck at home. Consignment marketplace Poshmark recently told Forbes that its user base has jumped to 60 million, with sellers from mid-March to mid-June in 2020 sharing an astonishing 60 million listings every day – double the numbers recorded prior to Covid-19.
Not only are consumers buying secondhand items, which in itself is more eco-friendly as it helps to lengthen the lifespan of products, shoppers are looking to go that extra mile by buying preloved sustainable garments. According to resale platform Vestiaire Collective’s recent Smart Side of Fashion 2020 report, over the course of the last few months of the pandemic, there has been a spike in sales for responsible and eco-friendly brands like Veja (+24%), and Stella McCartney (+42%) and Ganni (+47%) who took the spots for the top trending brands last year.
In addition, the report by Vestiaire Collective added that members are becoming more conscious of the environmental impact of transporting their items, in addition to buying more preloved as a way to reduce their fashion footprint. Since May 2020, over half of the platform’s 10 million members are now opting for the more sustainable Direct Shipping service, which skips the authentication services and its associated shipping-related carbon emissions.
thredUP’s analysts concluded that the current bright spot that online resale is having is going to last. According to their report, the online secondhand fashion market is projected to grow to 69% between 2019 and 2021 despite the overall economic downturn that will see the broader retail sector shrink by 15%.
Lead image courtesy of thredUP.
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4 Mins Read Change Foods, the precision fermentation dairy startup born in Australia, has just moved into BioCube San Jose, the Silicon Valley life science incubator and former home of Impossible Foods. Speaking to Green Queen Media, the food tech’s CMO Irina Gerry says the move to “plant our feet in California” will help it “build and scale […]
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4 Mins Read Jakarta has just welcomed a new dedicated plant-based collaborative space with vegan cloud kitchens. Opened by local startup Mad Grass, the new space in the Indonesian capital claims to be the first-of-its-kind in the world, featuring a wide range of homegrown plant-based brands and curating their offerings under one roof. Mad Grass, Jakarta’s first vegan […]
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3 Mins Read Givaudan, the world’s biggest flavour and fragrance corporation, has placed alternative proteins at the centre of its growth strategy in the years ahead. Opening a new Protein Hub at its flagship Zurich Innovation Centre this week, the company says that it’ll be exploring everything from new plant-based ingredients to fermentation techniques. Givaudan has just opened […]
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4 Mins Read Formo, the precision fermentation cheese company based in Berlin, has just closed a record-breaking $50 million Series A round, representing the largest to date within the European food tech industry. The startup says that the funds will boost R&D to expand its product portfolio, with animal-free mozzarella and ricotta the first on its list. Formo […]
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3 Mins Read Tomorrow Foods, an Argentinian plant-based startup, has raised $3 million in a new funding round. On the heels of its vegan burger launch, the food tech says it will use the capital to double down on R&D to expand its product portfolio, as well as enter new markets as it looks to become a leading […]
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3 Mins Read NoMy has announced the closing of a seed funding round to accelerate its fungi-powered sustainable solutions. Based in Oslo, the Norwegian startup uses fungal mycelium to develop alternatives for everything from food to materials, such as alternative meat and bioplastics. NoMy has raised an undisclosed amount of capital in its seed funding round, which attracted […]
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5 Mins Read Singapore has yet again earned a ‘world first’ badge in the global cultivated protein industry, this time granting Esco Aster a license to manufacture cultured animal cells meat for commercial sale. The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) gave its approval to the manufacturer in July, positioning the city-state as a firm world and regional leader in […]
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4 Mins Read TiNDLE, the plant-based chicken brand launched by Singapore’s Next Gen Foods, has just rolled out in the UAE for the first time. Debuting on menus across 8 restaurant brands with nearly 20 outlets across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Fujairah, it marks the first time TiNDLE will be served outside of Asia as part of Next […]
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3 Mins Read The US Vegan Climate ETF, the world’s first and only vegan exchange traded fund to date, has celebrated two years of its launch. For the second consecutive year, the fund has outperformed the S&P 500 Index, demonstrating the profit potential of ethical and sustainable investing. The US Vegan Climate ETF, listed under the New York […]
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3 Mins Read India is set to introduce the country’s first vegan food safety standards and labelling regulations. Having formulated its draft report, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) will issue guidelines to define plant-based food products and help consumers identify the products. The FSSAI has debuted its draft for the Food Safety and Standards […]
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4 Mins Read Numu, a plant-based cheese startup based in Brooklyn, New York, has just closed its Series A funding round. The food tech is behind the vegan mozzarella made for foodservice, currently served across pizzerias in New York. Now, fuelled with fresh funds, Numu wants to not only get its vegan mozzarella onto more menus, but to […]
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4 Mins Read Numu, a plant-based cheese startup based in Brooklyn, New York, has just closed its Series A funding round. The food tech is behind the vegan mozzarella made for foodservice, currently served across pizzerias in New York. Now, fuelled with fresh funds, Numu wants to not only get its vegan mozzarella onto more menus, but to […]
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4 Mins Read Our planet has no time left for “incremental change” to avert climate disaster, says a leaked draft of the upcoming IPCC report.
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3 Mins Read It’s not common knowledge, but not all beers out there are vegan. Some brands use finings in the brewing process that are derived from animals, making the final product not 100% free from animal byproducts and therefore unsuitable for vegans. But now, researchers are exploring how upcycled mushrooms can help create animal-free fining agents to […]
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4 Mins Read Many pet owners believe that their dogs are naturally carnivores. But the truth is, dogs are omnivores and they can thrive on a plant-based diet. That’s the reason why British veterinarian Dr. Guy Sandelowsky decided to start Omni, an aptly named startup that has developed 100% vegan, nutritionally-complete dog food that is better for pets’ […]
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3 Mins Read McDonald’s has just started rolling out the much anticipated McPlant burger in the UK, which for the first time will be 100% vegan. From this month, several locations in England will begin selling the plant-based patty co-developed with food tech Beyond Meat, before expanding nationwide from 2022. The world’s biggest fast food chain is now […]
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4 Mins Read Imagine Meats, the vegan meat brand created by Bollywood celebrity couple Riteish and Genelia Deshmukh, has just launched in Mumbai. Available online and in retail locations across the city, the range includes plant-based chicken, mutton, kebabs and keemas. Two years in the making, the founders say the anticipated rollout was intended to coincide with the […]
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3 Mins Read Chef Alain Ducasse, the famous Monégasque chef behind the three-Michelin-starred restaurant The Dorchester, has just opened a brand new restaurant in Paris. This time, the renowned chef is doing something different. Unlike his previous meat, seafood and dairy-heavy menus, Sapid restaurant in Paris is going to serve up 95% plants. Plant-based is yet again taking […]
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3 Mins Read Mexico has officially passed a ban on animal testing for cosmetics, becoming the first country within North America to do so.
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5 Mins Read Just five meat and dairy firms are responsible for more emissions than oil giants like Exxon and BP, the new Meat Atlas 2021 report finds.
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5 Mins Read Bringing together 700 executives and food experts, the upcoming Future Food-Tech Summit will showcase the latest in sustainable nutrition.
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4 Mins Read Australian startup All G Foods just bagged $16 million in seed funding ahead of its vegan meat launch. Now, it’s developing animal-free dairy.
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4 Mins Read Danish startup Responsibly has bagged $2 million in pre-seed investment to launch its data platform for responsible sourcing.
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Born between 1996 and 2012, Generation Z—often referred simply as Gen Z or “zoomers”—have shown themselves to be environmental activists, low-wasters, vegan meat-eaters and anti-flyers. Now, they’re proving themselves to be the climate career generation too.
For this demographic of young people, every birthday they celebrate has been markedly hotter, quite literally, with global heating and climate-related disasters getting increasingly severe. While the oldest of the bunch have already entered the job market, the younger cohort of Gen Zs are just beginning to think about their careers. And all in all, the statistics seem to show that many of them hope to make saving the planet their way of making a living.
According to a Pew Research poll conducted last year among American adults, Gen Zs are by far the most concerned about climate change. 76% of them said that addressing climate change is one of the biggest concerns they have, while over one-third (37%) said it was actually their “top concern to them personally.” The same survey also found that just under a third (32%) of all Gen Zs have taken part in at least one environmental action within the past year, from volunteering at a clean-up campaign or attending a climate protest and even writing to politicians demanding change.
Their climate concern has prompted many of them to prioritise companies that are purpose-led when it comes to the jobs they are applying for. It’s the reason why brands with a strong environmental record, such as Patagonia, widely recognised for its efforts to block the Trump administration’s climate-damaging plans and a certified B Corp, now receives more than 9,000 applications for every single open internship role. Simply put by the firm’s former CEO Rose Marcario in a Forbes interview, younger generations want to work for a company that’s “doing work that’s good for the world”.
Many Gen Zs are now undergraduate students in universities, a time in their lives when they are thinking about what they want to do in the future. An on-campus survey conducted in 2020 in USC found that nearly two-thirds of them are thinking about sustainability. 64% said they were “very interested”, in fact, while 33% are already participating in sustainability activities on a daily basis—strongly suggesting that many of them are geared towards searching for career pathways in this direction too.
As the climate becomes an increasingly important topic globally, with young people commanding the attention of world politicians and making their voices heard at global panels from the UN to the WEF, the environment-related employment opportunities are booming. According to the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs in the environmental scientists and related specialist sectors are projected to grow 8% over the next decade—much faster than other industries.
Now, technically this isn’t about Gen Zs. It’s about the one after: Generation Alpha. This super young generation (the children of millennials, rather than the children of Generation X) are going to be even more laser-focused on launching climate careers. In one poll conducted among primary school children between the ages of 6 to 9, more than two-thirds (67%) say saving the planet will be the “central mission” of their careers in the future.
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4 Mins Read These startups are disrupting the way we produce milk produts with their game-changing microbial biofermented dairy technologies.
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