Supporting Bright Young Business

Our Featured Business is none other than Hirestreet! The fast fashion industry is typified by buying a dress and only wearing it once. Whether to keep up with the latest trends, or social pressure to never wear the same thing twice, it’s a pattern which is both expensive and leads to huge amounts of waste. In May 2018, Isabella West founded Hirestreet, which hires out dresses at a fraction of the price, saving her customers money and helping to slow down fast fashion. We had a catch up with Shell LiveWIRE alumna Isabella, read the interview here: https://go.shell.com/2KDsKP4

Posted on Jun 26 2019 04:02am

When you think of the future of food, what do you picture? In very different ways, Charlie Guy (LettUs Grow) and Thomas Farrugia (Beta Bugs) are influencing the future of agriculture with a level of innovation which earned them a place in the Final 6 for our 2018 Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Lettus Grow is growing produce right where its needed using aeroponics, cutting down the time, resources and distance travelled of food to a fraction of traditional methods. Meanwhile, Betas Bugs is revolutionising the 'insects as protein' sector, accelerating the sustainability of the animal feed industry by breeding fast-growing strains of insect. Learn more about the Final 6 here: https://go.shell.com/2wDroun

Posted on Jun 13 2019 04:59am

What new sustainable materials will the future bring? Martina Zupan from Alterwaste and Ehab Sayed from Biohm Ltd made it into the Final 6 in the running for the Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award with their innovative start-ups. Alterwaste creates a plastic alternative using discarded waste such as egg shells, while Biohm creates bio-based materials to be used in novel construction methods that will reduce the time and environmental impact that goes into buildings. They are both working in vastly different sectors, but have one thing in common: they are creating the materials of the future. Find out more about our Final 6 here: https://go.shell.com/2wzpzif

Posted on Jun 06 2019 04:20am