The Hamilton startup transforming coffee cups and soft plastics into gib board
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February 20, 2022

The Hamilton startup transforming coffee cups and soft plastics into gib board

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SaveBoard has the backing of a major logistics company and is selling into a market short on in-demand building supplies. But even its CEO says the low-carbon building materials startup can’t save the industry. For the last 10 weeks, every two-and-a-half minutes a factory in the Hamilton suburb of Te Rapa has been churning out building materials made from the sorts of plastic waste that our food, drinks, packages and mail come in.

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