Business News
Is Your ‘Eco-friendly’ Paper Bag Actually Sustainable? No — and Here’s the Math to Prove It.
Is paper sustainable? A deep dive into lifecycle data reveals paper bags may be worse for the climate than plastic.
Vishal Vivek is the founder of Ukhi. He's rethinking packaging from the ground up — building materials meant to quietly replace plastic at scale. His belief is simple: When something is truly better, the world adopts it.
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