Deplastify the Planet
NovaXS Biotech Takes Top Spot at Collider Cup IX
The UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) held Collider Cup IX, its innovation showcase featuring Fall 2021’s top student venture projects, on Dec 10, 2021 in-person in the Bechtel Engineering Center. Ten teams pitched their venture projects to an esteemed panel of investors to have the opportunity to receive feedback, connect with…
Stop the Recycling PSAs: Why Corporations Should Be Responsible for Plastic Waste
From the ‘Deplastify the Planet’ Class: A Circular Economic Solution to Plastic Waste In most states, plastic recycling is currently orchestrated by public and private waste management companies. But should this be the case? This is the question that arose during my fall term class, Desplastify the Planet. Deplastify the Planet is a one-of-a-kind project-based…
French Embassy OST recognizes SCET Deplastify the Planet course on 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement
SCET will offer its Deplastify the Planet course in collaboration with Schoolab in Spring 2021. Participating students will have the opportunity to create a venture project that creates practical solutions for companies to reduce their use of plastic. In a video released to commemorate the 5th anniversary of of the Paris Agreement, an international treaty…
Collider Cup Returns in Accelerated Virtual Format
SCET’s flagship pitch competition will return in a rapid fire virtual format on December 11 as Collider Cup VII, featuring pitches from this semester’s top student venture teams. Get ready for the Collider Cup, UC Berkeley’s premier technology entrepreneurship pitch event, hosted by the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET). Collider Cup VII is…
Reduce, Reuse, ‘Upcycle’!
Ideas that have the potential to make an enormous positive impact come by once in a lifetime…unless you’re a part of the ‘Deplastify the Planet’ Challenge Lab at UC Berkeley! Read about Team Upcycle’s journey of working with Method and Whole Foods, and learn how they stumbled upon a solution to develop affordable, fully compostable…
Help Deplastify the Planet! The Challenge Lab returns for Spring 2020
Plastic is a big problem. World plastic production totaled 359 million tons in 2018, and production levels have grown steadily since 1950. It is estimated that 3-4% of plastic enters the ocean eventually creating ocean garbage patches such as the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is now twice the size of Texas. And as…
Recology SF hosts SCET’s Deplastify the Planet Course
Recology SF hosted SCET’s Deplastify the Planet course on Wednesday, Septermber 4 at the Recology SF facility. Christine Wolfe, Government Relations Manager and John Ferrari, Sr Operations Manager gave the students a tour of the facility, explained operations and fielded questions from students. Recology SF is one of the largest recycling centers in the Western United…
Fall 2019 class combats plastic waste through innovation
Interested in creatively solving the problems of an overly plastic planet? A one to two unit experiential seminar titled “Deplastify the Planet” will be available this fall semester for innovative students to work with companies hoping to solve the issue of plastic waste. Deplastify the Planet, which will be held on Wednesday afternoons in downtown…