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Plasno February 3, 2015

Founders:

Daniel Vogelpohl, Simon Gröning, Benjamin Bartels und Meshal Kadourah

What they do:

Plasno is Europe’s first online shop that offers a large variety of products that contain no plastic at all. All products are packed in recycled boxes and is shipped in a bag made of strong paper. Plasno = say no to plastic.

Find out more (German only):

http://www.plasno.de/

 

 

Hanseatische Materialverwaltung December 8, 2013

Founders:

Petra Sommer, Jens Gottschau

What they do:

The Hanseatische Materialverwaltung (HMV) is the central point of contact for material and ideas. Here, cultural projects, public schools, universities, artists and associations in Hamburg (Germany) can get the material and items they need to brint their social, ecological or creative ideas into life.

After each movie shoot, after events or after fairs, organizors throw away huge amounts of different material (in addition to the “regular garbage”. HMV collects all these items in a publicly accessible storage and so hepls to realise new ideas by avoiding garbage at the same time.

Find out more (German only):

http://www.hanseatische-materialverwaltung.de/