Happy Monday! Let’s kick off the week by taking inspiration from four companies driving circular innovation. Also, check out the circular calendar and let us know if you’re heading to an upcoming event!

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Releaf Paper
📍 Paris, France & Kyiv, Ukraine (serving global brands)
⁉️ Releaf Paper is an innovative materials company transforming fallen leaves into sustainable paper and packaging. Founded in Ukraine in 2021, the company developed patented technology to extract cellulose fibres from leaves, a process that eliminates the need for wood pulp, significantly reducing deforestation, CO₂ emissions, and water usage.
 🔗 https://www.releaf-paper.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/re-leaf-tech/

ReturnPro
📍 Florida, US (serving global retailers and eCommerce brands)
⁉️ ReturnPro is a SaaS company specialising in end-to-end returns management solutions for retailers, brands, and third-party sellers. Their platform integrates returns initiation, reverse logistics, and reCommerce services to streamline the post-purchase experience and their centres of excellence efficiently process over 45,000,000 units annually.
🔗 https://www.returnpro.com/?r=0 | https://www.linkedin.com/company/returnpro1/

MASH Makes
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark & Karnataka, India (global operations)
⁉️ MASH Makes is a climate tech company developing scalable, carbon-negative solutions for hard-to-decarbonize sectors like shipping, agriculture, and heavy industry. Their modular pyrolysis technology converts agricultural residues into advanced biofuel, electricity, and biochar. The company aims to remove 1 gigaton of CO₂ from the atmosphere by 2040.
🔗 https://www.mashmakes.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/mashmakes/

Cirba Solutions
📍 North Carolina, US (operating across North America)
⁉️ Cirba Solutions is a leading battery recycling and materials processing company specialising in end-of-life lithium-ion and cross-chemistry batteries. Their advanced facilities extract critical minerals like lithium, nickel, and cobalt, supplying battery-grade materials back into the domestic supply chain.
🔗 https://www.cirbasolutions.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/cirbasolutions/ 

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Have a superb week and we’ll see you again on Friday!

Cheers to circularity,

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