Packaging Made to Disappear, with Julia Bialetska of S.Lab

02/28/25 • 30 min

Julia Bialetska is the founder of S.Lab, a Ukrainian company creating sustainable packaging solutions from agricultural waste.

In this episode we talked about:

🌱 How S.Lab transforms agricultural waste into packaging that can be used in food, pharmaceuticals, electronics, furniture and fashion

📊 The impact of EU regulations requiring all packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2030, and why that means companies are rushing to find sustainable alternatives

⚙️ The parallels between today's sustainable materials evolution and the plastic revolution of the last century

🇺🇦 The resilience of Ukrainian startups operating during wartime and the growing recognition they're receiving globally

💰 S. Lab’s impressive pipeline worth approximately 20 million euros in monthly revenue and their current fundraising round of 2.5 million euros

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Julia Bialetska is the founder of S.Lab, a Ukrainian company creating sustainable packaging solutions from agricultural waste.

In this episode we talked about:

🌱 How S.Lab transforms agricultural waste into packaging that can be used in food, pharmaceuticals, electronics, furniture and fashion

📊 The impact of EU regulations requiring all packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2030, and why that means companies are rushing to find sustainable alternatives

⚙️ The parallels between today's sustainable materials evolution and the plastic revolution of the last century

🇺🇦 The resilience of Ukrainian startups operating during wartime and the growing recognition they're receiving globally

💰 S. Lab’s impressive pipeline worth approximately 20 million euros in monthly revenue and their current fundraising round of 2.5 million euros

#ClimateTech #SustainablePackaging #Packaging #Mycelium

🪸 Transform your company's milestones into impact, like trees planted and coral reef restored: impacthero.com/podcast

🧑‍💼 Growing across Europe? Grab a free consultation and hire without hassle: parakar.eu/climate

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Another ClimateTech Podcast - Packaging Made to Disappear, with Julia Bialetska of S.Lab

Transcript

Julia Bialetska00:00:01.683

So it could be used . Definitely the use case could be for food , for pharmaceutics , for electronics , for decor , for furniture , for fashion items , basically anything that needs protection . And we understand that . Probably we started with a higher end market because it was easier to enter that market with a higher price that we had . But of course we are looking into bigge