Team Wear Forward

 provides clothing as a service through an AI-powered circular fashion marketplace and virtual wardrobe where users can manage, share, buy, and source preloved, sustainable, upcycled, and refashioned clothes and other textiles and avail fashion and refashion services. It connects customers to informal waste workers and their products and services. It further connects textile waste donors to communities they can support for collection, management, and upcycling. Through Wear Forward, informal waste workers will undergo a Circular Fashion Training Program to upcycle textile wastes into high-quality products with a viable product-market fit. They will also be equipped to offer refashion services like repairs and alterations. Moreover, the informal waste workers can use the platform to continuously guide them on their skills training, designs, and livelihood through the program modules and resources tailor-made for them.

Team BukoAll

will buy fresh coconuts and discarded/extra coconut husks/shells from coconut farming cooperatives and associations all around Negros. These coconuts and coconut wastes will then be given to hired artisans, local craftsmen, and cooks as materials in making “Kokontainers”( BukoAll’s coconut containers) and ingredients in making coconut delicacies. The Kokontainers will be sold to eco-friendly restaurants/food services to be used as food packaging for takeouts and deliveries and the coconut-based products sold to zero-waste stores/shops. 

 After being used to their full extent, the consumers can return them to BukoAll. By returning the Kokontainers, the consumers will receive incentives in the form of 2nd and 3rd Grade (“ugly produce”) from our local farmers. The returned Kokontainers are to be upcycled as coconut-based products like coco peat, coco coir, coco fiber, organic fertilizer, and charcoal. These upcycled products are then to be traded or sold to farms and consumers, thus, repeating the Kokonomy once again.