RefillaBowl
I love ordering food but hate all the packaging it comes with. This was a business idea to try and offset some of that guilt.
I love ordering food but hate all the packaging it comes with. This was a business idea to try and offset some of that guilt.
To find out how to turn the idea into a buisness, we applied and got accepted into the ClimateLaunchpad Competition (the world's largest green business competition). After months of intensive coaching, research, and development, we presented our idea as a service in the Dutch finals and won our first-ever oversized cheque.
Then we were selected as D&AD Future Impact One's To Watch and invited to the D&AD Future Impact Programme in New York.
Like a real startup, we learned to "pivot" and switched from takeaway bowls to supermarket ready-meal bowls.
And we did a whole lot of pitching - to Dutch supermarkets, Gemeente Amsterdam (the city council), Gemeente Den Haag, and the Climate-KIC - an initiative funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.
Then the pandemic hit. And unfortunately, that was the end of that. For now anyway.
Then the pandemic hit. And unfortunately, that was the end of that. For now anyway.
