Notpla Magazine

This Monday, a room full of scientists, doctors, policymakers and innovators came together around one shared question: What do we do next?

For many years, plastic pollution was largely seen as an environmental issue. Images of ocean waste and plastic-covered beaches helped the world understand the scale of the problem.

This International Women’s Day, Notpla is celebrating the appointment of Karlijn Sibbel as Chief Innovation Officer (CIO), recognising her leadership in material innovation and the role she plays in shaping the future of sustainable packaging.

How a university-born packaging innovation is now helping campuses do away with single-use plastic waste at never-before-seen scale.

At events like Winter Wonderland, sustainability isn’t a side conversation, it’s a live, operational challenge playing out across hundreds of thousands of food and drink moments.

This summer, Wembley Stadium connected by EE, the UK’s largest and most iconic live event venue, partnered with award-winning sustainable packaging company Notpla and hospitality provider Delaware North to introduce regenerative food packaging to UK live music.

We’re proud to share that Notpla and Plastek UK have won Silver for Supplier Innovation of the Year at the 2025 Pentawards, celebrating the successful launch of Kelpy Bone, the world’s first seaweed-based dog toy.

Leading the way in the vegan street food scene, The Hogless Roast has grown from a pub-born idea into one of the UK’s most original plant-based ventures. What began as a simple thought - could there be a vegan hog roast?

When we think of “seaweed,” we usually picture the long ribbons of kelp swaying under the waves. But seaweed is just one part of a much bigger family: algae. Understanding the difference between the two gives us a new appreciation for the extraordinary diversity of life in our oceans and why it matters for the future of sustainable materials.