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Sparkle, a Plant-Based Sustainable Period Brand, Is Launching in the U.S. from North Texas HQ

by | Aug 17, 2023
Sparkle is bringing its sustainable and plant-based sanitary products from India to the U.S., offering dermatologist-tested and USDA-certified biobased products. Using a fully-automatic Italian production line, Sparkle's 50,000-SF plant in India (above) can make 1 million pads a day. See why Sparkle's co-founders chose Irving for their U.S. HQ—and how their U.S. waste management program could be a game changer.
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Waste Removal and Bespoke Sustainability Company CheckSammy Gets $15M Investment
by | Nov 30, 2022
Founded in 2018, CheckSammy's story has its beginnings in Co-Founder and CEO Sam Scoten's realization that there was an increased shortage of landfill space. He also wanted to tackle one of the last unregulated utilities —the waste services sector.  "It's an industry that's long overdue for disruption," said FirePower Capital's Trevor Simpson. 

CheckSammy says it brings greater transparency to bulk waste removal and sustainability services by leveraging data to empower fiscally and environmentally responsible decision-making.
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UNT Prof Working to Find Safer Way to Dispose Nuclear Waste
by | Dec 6, 2016
UNT professor Jincheng Du will join a team of researchers examining how to make nuclear waste disposal safer for a longer time period.
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Student Startups: App Aims to End Food Waste, Feed Families
by | Apr 20, 2016
Fridgely's founder is a student at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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