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it started with Lucy
after reading a newspaper article about the vast amount of carbon flowing into the air from landfills, power plants, and cows like Lucy, we thought:
there must be some way to use greenhouse gas as a resource.
it turns out, there is.
it started with Lucy
after reading a newspaper article about the vast amount of carbon flowing into the air from landfills, power plants, and cows like Lucy, we thought:
there must be some way to use greenhouse gas as a resource.
it turns out, there is.
MEDIA
less Death Star, more Millennium Falcon
Amazon
"Newlight selected as an inaugural member of the Amazon Devices Climate Tech Accelerator."
7/11/25
Future Net Zero
"Newlight Technologies has taken carbon capture into a whole new dimension."
12/13/23
Fortune.com
"The Fortune Impact 20 highlights relatively small enterprises that have built their business models around world-changing ideas"
12/12/23
TIME Magazine
"100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business for 2023"
11/16/23
PR Newswire
"Newlight Completes US$125M In New Equity Round Led by GenZero."
8/03/23
Urth Magazine
"Aircarbon: Unlocking the Potential of Carbon Emissions."
6/01/23
Fortune.com
“A California startup”
1/10/23
Wall Street Journal
"Products Made With Captured Greenhouse Gas Are Reaching Commercial Scale."
11/28/22
Tatler
"Is Alternative Leather the Future of the Fashion Industry?"
6/21/22
Vogue
“H&M Launches Its Fifth Sustainability Initiative With A Timeless Collection Titled ‘Cherish Waste.’”
4/06/22
Discovery
"Plucking CO2 from the Air Could Decarbonize Food, Fuel, and Fashion."
4/05/22
Fast Company
“This Company Is Capturing Methane—Then Using It To Make Forks And Straws.”
3/23/22
Chief Executive
“For Mark Herrema, the “why” was because he wanted Newlight Technologies to help solve climate change.”
1/26/22
Medium
“Chasing A Carbon-Zero World.”
12/05/21
WWD
“An A-Z Guide To The Next-Gen Materials Taking A Step Forward For Sustainability.”
11/09/21
HYPEBEAST
"What the Tech? Microorganism-Harvested AirCarbon Will Make Your Next Pair of Nikes."
9/17/21
WWD
“These Next-Gen Materials Are Wooing Investors And U.S. Shoppers, Report Finds.”
9/08/21
Treehugger
"Best of Green Awards: 2021."
6/29/21
Fashion For Good
“Newlight’s use of carbon capture technology transforms carbon from greenhouse gases into PHA biopolymers.”
6/10/21
Forbes
“The world’s first carbon-negative eyewear. Made from a natural material called Aircarbon, each pair removes 2.03 kilograms of CO2 equivalents from the atmosphere.”
6/07/21
WWD
“There’s also a growing trend toward carbon capture technologies which enable brands to extract carbon from the air with its novel ‘Aircarbon’ material.”
5/05/21
Fast Company
"World Changing Ideas Awards: 2021."
5/04/21
Popular Mechanics
"Plastics are slowly choking the planet. The solution might be hidden in one of the world's smallest organisms."
5/02/21
Flaunt Magazine
"The foodware in this film was made with Aircarbon, a reusable, carbon-negative material made by life."
4/22/21
Dieline
“Can Aircarbon Solve our Single-Use Packaging Problem?”
3/25/21
Brightly
"Unlike soggy pasta straws, these products truly feel like the eco-friendly and sustainable products of the future."
3/22/21
Forbes
"After ten years of development, the company was able to produce a cost-effective and carbon-negative biomaterial."
3/05/21
Bio Plastics Magazine
"A natural and regenerative foodware brand that launched in 2020 to help end the flow of plastic into the ocean by replacing it with AirCarbon®"
3/04/21
ExBulletin
"A palliative response to the considerable impact of fashion on the environment."
1/29/21
Restaurant News
"Certified carbon negative by Carbon Trust and SCS Global, meaning they actually reduce carbon in the atmosphere."
3/03/21
Popsugar
“With each handbag backed by blockchain technology, every step of Aircarbon's production process is trackable.”
1/26/21
Vogue
"Covalent products are not only animal-free, but regenerative, and carbon-negative too."
11/14/20
Fashionista
"Aircarbon's environmental stats are impressive."
11/11/20
QSR Magazine
"Shake Shack is introducing Aircarbon cutlery and straws at select locations by joining forces with Restore Foodware."
3/03/21
Waste 360
"Newlight’s innovation gets some help from microorganisms found in the ocean."
12/21/20
CNN
"Because Aircarbon uses gasses from the atmosphere, the products are carbon negative."
10/19/20
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EcoWatch
"Carbon-Negative Straws and Cutlery Could Help"
10/03/20
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