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Making ground

War has been declared; the war against single-use soft plastic packaging. Ben Grant and Josh Kempton have seen the environmental impact of these plastics first-hand – particularly, in Ben’s case, within the hospitality industry.

They’d talked about business ideas and opportunities many times over a number of years, but it was only when Ben sold his successful multimillion dollar restaurant chain Bird on a Wire in late 2018 that he came up with the idea of addressing the development of composting infrastructure.

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