{"id":2547,"date":"2026-05-15T03:52:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commsnews.com\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:52:48","slug":"from-flowers-to-fashion-the-surprising-companies-making-sustainability-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commsnews.com\/?p=2547","title":{"rendered":"From Flowers to Fashion: The Surprising Companies Making Sustainability Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2548 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/commsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-15-Vital-Signs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-15-Vital-Signs.jpg 342w, https:\/\/commsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-15-Vital-Signs-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Trupti Vasudev<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chin up, people! There\u2019s sweet relief for your climate anxiety, plenty is happening in the field of sustainability and lots of companies dreaming up innovative solutions to the challenges that our planet is facing.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few companies that we can give our time and money to. Companies that show us that sustainable lifestyle choices are not always difficult. Companies that are helping us to do the things we want to but couldn\u2019t figure out how. Along the way, perhaps we can also take a leaf out of their books to innovate some of the processes at our own businesses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosia.org\/\"><strong>Ecosia<\/strong><\/a>: A CO\u2082-negative search engine that has so far committed more than \u20ac100 million to climate action. It uses its ad revenue profits to fund tree-planting projects. Ecosia donates 80% or more of its profits to nonprofit organizations that work for the reforestation of our planet. Ecosia is B Lab-certified and claims to protect the privacy of its users. We don\u2019t need to do a thing, because they are doing it for us.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aranieco.com\/\"><strong>Arani Eco Systems<\/strong><\/a>: Soaps, shampoos and washing powders that are not leaching toxic chemicals into our water bodies. Plant-based enzymes (making it vegan) are used to create everyday essentials across multiple categories home (grain-to-liquid dishwash, laundry powder), hair (shampoos, bar soaps) and skincare products (moisturizers, body wash, creams) &#8211; all packaged without plastic. My first introduction to the idea that home-cleaning products need not be shipped with 80% water! Since there is no water, the shipping automatically has a carbon-footprint 90% lower than the alternatives. Mindful products created with 100% plant-based ingredients sourced locally without compromising on the attributes that consumers seek, they have truly broken the mould.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/phool.co\/\">Phool<\/a>:<\/strong> Good for you, good for the planet and good for the people who make it &#8211; those words on Phool\u2019s website could not be truer. This company collects the millions of flowers offered in the temples across 6 cities in India and employs more than 300 women from marginalized communities to upcycle these flowers into the world&#8217;s first certified, handcrafted incense products &#8211; dhoop, agarbattis, essential oils and now extending into other product categories like car-fresheners and mosquito repellents. They invented Flowercycling, and today each of their packs save 125 kgs of flowers from being dumped into the Ganges. An amazing design upgrade, and these are now corporate gift-worthy!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oziss.in\/\"><strong>Oziss<\/strong><\/a>: A fashion brand that claims to be carbon-negative! Traditional methods of making clothes have made the fashion industry one of the most polluting industries out there. With almost one truck of clothing being burned or landfilled every minute, fast-fashion has become the new single-use plastic. This fashion-forward brand uses rescued fabrics, bio-degradable and recyclable cotton and packaging, water-based inks that are non-toxic and non-hazardous for the makers and deserves a place in your wardrobe.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/takachar.com\/\"><strong>Takachar<\/strong><\/a>: This Earthshot prize winner and finalist at the Musk Foundation\u2019s Xprize Carbon Removal competition is giving us a solution to the crop-burning problem that has captured our attention (and our lungs) in the last few years, by turning crop and forest residues in rural communities into higher-value bioproducts. Takachar has developed technology that drastically scales the transformation of waste biomass into marketable bio-products for rural communities that can help combat smog and catastrophic wildfires.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nokasa.co\/\"><strong>Nokasa<\/strong><\/a>: A start-up that\u2019s addressing a problem that most urban households have, shelves overflowing with clothes that no one wears, and we don\u2019t know what to do with. Nokasa picks up your clothes, pays you for your old clothes, responsibly resells your old clothes and gives them one more life (because reuse is &gt; recycle), and in the process prevents kilograms of unwanted clothes from going into landfills. Nokasa says India produces 7.8 million tonnes of textile waste annually.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Karnataka\u2019s Nandini Milk<\/strong>: Bio-degradable milk-packets that look like plastic, but break-down in just 6 months. Let that sink in. Traditional milk-packets that we have been using for decades take hundreds of years to decompose, and then they leave us the gift of micro-plastics in our oceans that will cause irreparable damage to our marine life. In a bold move for sustainability, Karnataka Milk Federation\u2019s Nandini brand has started testing biodegradable milk packets made from corn starch, a first for India. Just the city of Bengaluru, it is estimated, uses up to 25 lakh plastic milk packets daily, so here\u2019s hoping the experiment is a resounding success and other brands follow suit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If a milk-packet can change, anything can.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The views and opinions published here belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the publisher.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Trupti Vasudev Chin up, people! There\u2019s sweet relief for your climate anxiety, plenty is happening in the field of sustainability and lots of companies dreaming up innovative solutions to the challenges that our planet is facing. Here are a few companies that we can give our time and money to. Companies that show us that sustainable lifestyle choices are not always difficult. Companies that are helping us to do the things we want to but couldn\u2019t figure out how. 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