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Curious to learn more about Sway Polybags and how your brand can adopt seaweed-based packaging in 2025? Join Julia Marsh (Sway) and Saloni Doshi (EcoEnclose) tomorrow! This webinar will spotlight Sway Polybags, a first-of-its-kind seaweed-based replacement for traditional LDPE polybags. https://lnkd.in/gGnChuGx What we'll cover: 🌊 The Why of Seaweed-Based Technology: The inside scoop on how and why this generous feedstock is a promising lead for the future of biomaterials. 🌊 Real-World Applications: Sway Polybags are already being piloted by a handful of brands, validating their performance in global supply chains. Explore how Sway Polybags can seamlessly integrate with your packaging ecosystem. 🌊 Brand Benefits: Adopting Sway’s solutions is more than a packaging commitment — it's an opportunity for your brand to craft unique narratives, demonstrate thought leadership, and build loyalty with your customer base. 🌊 How to Get Started: Leave this webinar with a clear understanding of the next steps to pilot Sway Polybags this year, with the vision of moving to this regenerative solution long-term. Register today: https://lnkd.in/gGnChuGx #seaweed #regenerativepackaging #circularpackaging #circularity

2025 is the year not just for seaweed, but for all materials made with regenerative feedstocks to thrive 🧪✨ Mycelium, microalgae, shrimp shells, peas, wetland grasses, potato peels, coffee grounds, hay, organic waste and other materials found in nature are all viable sources for a new materials future! The solutions are here — radical collaboration will move ‘em forward. Thank you to Michael Long of A New Earth Project for dropping this question to round out our Coast Film & Music Festival panel alongside Emy Kane of Lonely Whale and Bruce Moore of Florence Marine X. It was an honor to share how working together has leveraged the seaweed movement — from catalyzing the scale of our work, to getting Sway packaging in global supply chains through innovative brands like Florence, to exciting folks about this magical resource through the new documentary #SeaweedStories! Watch the full panel at https://lnkd.in/dU4urHRH 🌊 #seaweed #circularity #regenerative #regeneration #packaging #design #biomaterials #biodesign #biobased #radicalcollaboration #community

Our very own Julia Marsh was named a Leading Woman in Climate by Fin-Erth! A designer by trade, Julia co-founded Sway with design systems thinking: how can every piece of material created deliver positive benefits along the entire value chain? By ensuring Sway’s materials are scalable and compatible with existing manufacturing infrastructure, Julia has positioned Sway as a frontrunner in the $8.6B market for biodegradable flexible packaging. Her leadership has already garnered major wins, including 1st place in the TOM FORD Plastic Innovation Prize powered Lonely Whale. A true visionary, materializing a plastic-free future 💙 Congratulations to the 101 incredible women recognized in this list, including Sian Sutherland of PlasticFree.com, Diana Verde Nieto of Positive Luxury, Jennifer Patrick of Patagonia, Joanne Rodriguez, LEED AP, FitWel Amb, CDT of Mycocycle, Inc., Margaret Henry of PepsiCo, and Sahar Mansoor of Bare Necessities Zero Waste Solutions . The future looks a whole lot brighter with these climate solutionists paving the way! Read the full list → https://lnkd.in/gPqjfqAC

Happy new year from the Sway team! 🌊🌞🌈🌿 If last year was about growing up, 2025 is about seeing green lights everywhere. Everything is in motion. We’ve confirmed potent (to be announced) partnerships, our seaweed is already being harvested, processed and shipped, and production is actively happening as we write. This year, Sway has the potential to (finally!) create real change at scale. 2025 is also a year to demonstrate to the world what biomaterials can contribute to a thriving future. While the circular economy isn't a new concept, it's still unfamiliar to many. We believe that for seaweed materials to truly succeed, we need to champion all the nature based solutions – because to truly transform everything, we need everyone. Together with our incredible partners, we'll demonstrate how everyday materials can become vehicles for positive impact. Will it be easy? No. Perfect from the start? Unlikely. But we have the ingredients to build that thriving future: the team, the technology, the partnerships, the community, and the determination. By reading this message, you're already part of the journey. Thank you for being here. The world is our oyster, and we have a lot to look forward to. Onward to a future where materials can replenish the planet, from sea to soil! With gratitude and excitement, Julia Marsh & Matthew Mayes

One of Sway's biggest projects in 2024? Leveraging #sargassum into our product portfolio 🌊 You've likely seen sargassum — an invasive, equatorial seaweed species — making headlines for clogging beaches and disrupting tourism. But what if this "waste" could be transformed into a valuable resource? The Puerto Rico Studio, an innovation initiative led by Invest Puerto Rico and Newlab, supported our exploration of just that. Through the Puerto Rico Studio, Sway ran successful trials integrating Puerto Rico-sourced sargassum into TPSea™ resin, the base of our compostable, seaweed-based bioplastics! We look forward to further exploring this resource, with the goal of supporting global coastal communities, expanding the ecological impact of our seaweed sourcing strategy, and improving our product performance. Hear directly from our founders Julia Marsh and Matthew Mayes in this short film, created by Pan Up Productions 🌞🌿 For more info, visit https://lnkd.in/g9UQD3wP!

Seaweed and chocolate? A match made in heaven. Introducing the TCHO Chocolate box with a Sway Seaweed Window 🌊 While our materials aren’t yet ready to package food directly, this custom-designed EcoEnclose box with a Certified 100% Biobased Firstwave™ window was the perfect option to kick off a collaboration. We’re such huge fans of TCHO Chocolate because they commit to the best possible cacao, creating better chocolate, ecosystems, and communities in the process. Just a few of TCHO's incredible impact initiatives: 👩🔬 Lead unique programs in collaboration with farmers, scientists, and processors that support cacao producers and research worldwide. 💗 Make bold infrastructure investments at origin, from flavor labs, fermentation centers, and raised drying beds to entire buildings dedicated to cocoa quality research. 🌿 Committed to sourcing 100% traceable, certified organic ingredients, farmed regeneratively. Thank you TCHO for trusting Sway as a partner to enhance your value chain. We’re excited for the future of chocolate & material innovation! Interested in nabbing your own? Pick up at TCHO's Berkeley Chocolate Shop, or order online: https://lnkd.in/eD7HpYJj. Want to use Sway Seaweed Windows on your packaging? Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eXyBNiW3!

Designed to withstand global chains, but perhaps not blow torches. Welcome to part 2 of the Sway Polybag FAQ, where we answer your most burning questions about our home compostable, seaweed-based materials 🔥 We say this packaging is pretty dang durable. What say you? Learn more about the Sway Polybag and order free samples via our production partner EcoEnclose at swaythefuture.com/pilot! #swaythefuture #seaweedpackaging #compostable #compostablepackaging #seaweedbioplastic

Calling all material innovators, polymer experts, and scientists striving to solve the never-been-done-before: Sway seeks a Senior Materials Engineer to help us shape the future of biobased, compostable packaging + beyond! This new teammate will play a crucial role in advancing seaweed-based biopolymer materials through development and scale-up to commercialization. Working closely with both R&D and supply chain teams, this hire will oversee key formulation, testing, and process development activities to accelerate the advancement of prototypes and concepts to scalable, refined commercial products. 📍 Location: Sway Labs in San Leandro, CA (in-person required) 🧪 Employment type: Full Time 🥼 Experience level: Intermediate - Senior 📝 Apply before: Dec 11, 2024 Sound like you, or someone you know? Dive into the details → https://lnkd.in/gTmUA3jf 🌊

A *massive* win for seaweed innovation! With new support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s MACRO program, Bay Area-based seaweed innovators Sway and Umaro Foods are joining forces to optimize sidestream alginate into superior, scalable, and cost-effective bioplastics 🎉 Umaro unlocks new ways to extract seaweed proteins and transform them into high quality products — like their delicious, plant-based bacon. With the right chemistry, seaweed can provide not just protein, but also polysaccharides for bioplastics 🧪 Through this new funding, we will collaborate to upgrade Umaro’s surplus alginate (a brown seaweed polysaccharide) into a highly optimized ingredient for Sway products — all while harnessing the most use out of every piece of kelp. “Through diligent research and development, Sway plans to increase the accessibility of our seaweed-based materials by utilizing Umaro’s surplus alginate to lower our overall price point,” says Julia Marsh, CEO and co-founder of Sway. “Thanks to the support of the DOE, we also plan to enhance our material’s performance to tackle especially challenging categories of necessary packaging for fashion, home goods, and food – helping to avoid plastic pollution in the process!” To learn more about this collaboration, visit https://lnkd.in/gP3RUSHz 🌊 Special thanks to Dr. Mitra Ganewatta, Ph.D. and Dr. Amanda Stiles for propelling this project forward!

Such a pleasure to join our good friends on the Sustainable Packaging Podcast with Cory and Brodie! Catching up on all things seaweed, biomaterials, and regenerative design, this episode covers: 🌊 Sway’s criteria for successful, scalable design 🌀 Circular economy principles 🌈 Our most recent product launch (!) and the incredible brands who have joined the seaweed packaging movement: EcoEnclose prAna Faherty Brand Alex Crane Florence Marine X + much more! Give it a whirl at: https://lnkd.in/gPRuj3c9 🎧