Milky Plant

Milky Plant

Climate Technology Product Manufacturing

Fresh and Clean Plant based Milks in 3 minutes at home at the push of a button 🌱

About us

Our mission is to revolutionize the way we consume and dispose of packaged goods, starting with Tetra Pak waste. We aim to provide a sustainable solution by offering fresh plant milk at the push of a button, eliminating the need for single-use Tetra Pak cartons. Our goal is to reduce the negative impact on the environment caused by the disposal of Tetra Pak waste, which takes hundreds of years to decompose. Over 200 billion tetra paks are produce every year and only 26% are being recycled.

Website
http://www.milkyplant.com
Industry
Climate Technology Product Manufacturing
Company size
2-10 employees
Headquarters
London
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2020

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    Co-Founder @Milkyplant

    It’s such a pleasure being part of FEBE Growth 100. These are some of the fastest-growing brands and companies in the UK, all disrupting their various industries 🚀 I had the pleasure of listening to Charlie Bingham at the last meet up, who’s built an astonishing £140m-a-year business. Lessons from Charlie ✅Be resilient , big things take time to build ✅Hire great people ✅F*ck ups are okay Thank you, John Maffioli, Charlotte Quince & partners for always organising such 🔥 events Let’s keep building🌱

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    799 followers

    This was great for us @ Milky Plant Highly recommended 🌱

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    🚀 Are you a sustainable start-up looking to maximise your impact?   For the third year running, EIT Climate-KIC is teaming up with Amazon to support European start-ups who are driving sustainable innovation. 🍃   The Amazon Sustainability Accelerator is an equity-free programme helping entrepreneurs to grow their skills and scale their businesses so they can maximise their climate impact.   We are interested in supporting early-stage start-ups developing sustainable and innovative consumer products that have recently launched or are on the cusp of go-to-market.   Selected start-ups will benefit from: 🔵 €12k cash grant 🔵 $10k AWS Activate Credits 🔵 Climate impact assessment 🔵 And much more!   Apply today ➡️ https://amzn.to/3yUlxV0   Please tag any relevant startups in the comments below. 👇   #SustainabilityAccelerator #Startups

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    #NYTechweek Our first NYTechweek hosted by TECH WEEK by a16z , it was great meeting and talking to so many inspiring founders & investors. I learned so much about how to scale teams, mistakes to avoid when building a team, how to instill culture and values early on in a startup, and why building an audience can't wait. Brie Kluytenaar Erin Hinkle Robertson SHRM-CP (she / her) Rebecca Price Mike Nesser Nik Sharma Ankur Nagpal Avni Barman Jade Beguelin David Segura David Hudanish Rohit Giri Luke Johnson Nadina Grigoras Chansler Poole Cristian Berdos

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    How Milky Plant 🌱 was born. There are 3 significant numbers in our story: 1. 2018- the year Nadina Grigoras was diagnosed with hypercholesterolemia. 2. 2020- the year we started taking action on Milky Plant 3. £500- the amount it cost to start Milky Plant Back in 2018, Milky Plant was diagnosed with hypercholesterolemia, which meant she needed to make certain dietary changes that led to her dropping dairy products and moving to a more plant-based diet. The biggest switch was to plant milk—so naturally, we started consuming store-bought plant milk. But after a couple of months, Nadina Grigoras went back to the doctor and was advised to make her own plant milk at home due to all the seed oils, sugars, and additives in store-bought options. However, the home solutions were quite cumbersome and messy. After a couple of weeks of experimenting, we went back to store-bought options. Fast forward to May 2020, the pandemic had just hit and we were in full lockdown. I fully realized how much waste we were generating as a household(over 100 billion tetra paks are disposed every year), which was a lightbulb 💡 moment for us. For the first time in a while, we had lots of free time to be creative so we thought maybe we should give it a shot to build the worlds first automatic plant milk maker. But we had no engineering experience, so we thought about how we could mitigate risk: Step 1: We created 3D images of our first designs (see images). Step 2: Built a simple landing page with images, product offerings, and benefits. Step 3: We spent £500 to run ads to the landing page to get some sort of validation. Off the back of that, we got some purchases and the comments section was on 🔥. There was our validation, and we were off to the races! That’s how Milky Plant was started—comment below to hear more about the journey or if I’m just rambling & disrupting your timeline.

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    This 👇 is one of the problems we are trying to solve. Last year over 100 Billion tetra paks 🤯 were discarded into landfills. Milky Plant users stopped over 2,100,000 tetra paks from ending up in landfills 🌱 Great post from Julia Vol

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    Bring them back home 🎗 | Sustainability | Innovation | Geopolitics | Storytelling | Opinions mine, always.

    Recently, I attended a sustainability event where a representative from one of Denmark's largest food producers discussed the sustainability of their packaging. The spokesperson celebrated the company's achievement in 'solving the recycling problem of their packaging' by integrating cardboard-based food containers (commonly known as Tetra Pak) into the Danish recycling system. A friend who attended the event with me, who is relatively new to sustainability, was very impressed by this 'solution'. Our subsequent conversation made me realize how many people don't fully understand what 'recyclable' actually means, how different the reality is from the perception, and how much big packaging producers rely on and exploit this gap, contributing to the smoke and mirrors surrounding recycling. Here are some facts about the recycling of cardboard-based food packaging: 📦Cardboard cartons, such as Tetra Paks, consist of complex composites including plastic, aluminum, and cardboard. This complexity makes them problematic for recycling. 📊Tetra Paks are composed of 14% plastic, 5% aluminum, 6% bioplastic (cap), and 75% cardboard. 🏭🚛🚛Although labeled as 100% recyclable, Tetra Paks require specialized machinery for recycling due to their mixed material composition, which limits the actual rate of recycling. For example, there are no processing plants in Denmark; the waste is first transported to Germany and then to Sweden for what is termed recycling. 💸The recycling process for such packaging involves grinding the material into a very fine powder and then separating the fragments, which is highly energy-intensive, wasteful, and contributes further to microplastic pollution. 🗑️ Recycled Tetra Pak materials are often "downcycled" into lower-quality products that may ultimately end up in landfills, with less than 30% of the material volume actually being reused. 💸🚽The materials from this 'recycling' process rarely return to their original form; instead, they are turned into less valuable products, diminishing their overall recyclability and economic value. Given all these challenges, I am somewhat taken aback by the celebratory nature of the announcement that the problem of cardboard food packaging has been 'solved' in Denmark. It seems to me that we are creating a whole inefficient system to handle an inherently unsustainable packaging solution, just so we can continue justifying its use in the service of big producers, rather than in the service of our social, economic, and environmental needs. Only when we focus on designing systems that are fit for purpose, instead of applying ill-suited patches to unsustainable products, will we start making real progress on our sustainability journey. So lets hold off the celebrations until than, shall we?

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