mymizu was featured in Asahi Newspaper on June 25th.
The article covers our work to tackle Plastic Waste through a combination of technology and community building, and our quest to "take over the world" with free water.
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Last week, in celebration of World Oceans Day, we held an internal online event, “Our Connection with the Ocean”, for Starbucks Japan.
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Meisei High School’s mymizu challenge will be introduced by TBS TV “Asa-chan” on June 17th at 6:00AM.
Under the slogan “ MEISEI SDGs VISION~ Meisei connects the community and the world,” mymizu is working with this school to promote SDGs on their campus.
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Mariko joined a symposium celebrating World Ocean Day.
This event featured an online screening of the documentary “A Plastic Ocean”, followed by an insightful discussion on plastic waste and ocean pollution.
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We had our mymizu Ocean Day event to celebrate our beautiful blue planet. The event took place on Instagram IGTV on June 6th.
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Ethical Conveni, the new convenience store that provides products and experiences for people to live sustainably and incorporate the SDGs into their daily lives.
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This photo was taken almost 2 years ago with our first refill partner, About Life Coffee. Last week, we reached a major milestone - 1,000 mymizu refill partners across Japan and 10+ countries!
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We have saved 100,000 PET bottles and counting on the mymizu app!
Almost two years ago we set out on a mission to create a more sustainable future by reducing single-use plastic consumption. This milestone is proof that everyone’s individual actions are powerful - this is collective impact.
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Our co-founder, Mariko McTier was featured in Business Insider Japan's article Mariko talked about how she gained clarity about her career path, her journey to developing mymizu, and the female role model's she drew inspiration from.
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mymizu’s Co-founder Robin was selected among a handful of young entrepreneurs, humanitarians and inventors in MIT Technology Review’s inaugural “Innovators Under 35 Japan” awards in the beginning of this year. On April 12th, the magazine “MIT Technology Review Vol.3/Spring 2021 Innovation Issue” was published.
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We are thrilled to announce an official partnership with Kameoka City in Kyoto Prefecture. Kameoka City announced their “Zero Plastic Waste Declaration” way back in 2018, and have been leaders in charging for single-use plastic bags, tackling single-use plastic waste, and going as far as to ban the distribution of plastic bags, starting this month.
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Don’t sunny days just make you want to go for a hike up a mountain or walk around the beach? At mymizu, taking our reusable bottles and wearing our favorite shoes or sandals is an absolute must! This month, our friends at KEEN Japan are holding a “Detox the Planet” month in which they are carrying out various initiatives throughout April to think about our planet and take action to do good!
As a part of this, 10% of all KEEN’s sales made today April 9 (Fri) through their official online and retail stores will be donated to mymizu to support our activities!
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Our team held our first public beach clean event in a while at Katase Higashihama Beach on April 3rd.
At first glance, the beach seemed relatively clean, but as soon as we began, it became clear that there were lots of packaging, cigarette butts and other litter strewn across the beach. At the end, we collected 51.5kg worth of wast!.
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mymizu's Robin spoke at the Japan SDGs Action Festival on 26th and 27th of March.
The festival was organized by a mix of Public (eg. Cabinet Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Private (eg. Keidanren, Global Compact) and Civil Society organisations, focusing on how all stakeholders in society can contribute to Sustainable Development.
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mymizu’s Mariko has been featured in Vogue Japan in the magazine's "women leaders" series. She discusses the "3.5% rule" for making a movement, as well as the people and experiences who have influenced her on the road to mymizu.
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mymizu ambassador Kenny Kaneko spends a huge part of his life on the water as a stand up paddle athlete and a champion.
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On behalf of World Water Day (3/22), we have created art bottles with TokyoDex! The bottles are going to be on sale starting today.
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On World Water Day, Robin from mymizu will be joining the ‘Conversation Series’ at the United Nations University with Prof. Taikan Oki, Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University.
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We believe that tackling environmental problems is all about creating a new culture - by replacing “disposable” with “timeless”, we can minimize our negative impacts in the environment.
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mymizu’s Mariko spoke on Radio 1, NHK Late Night News on February 24th at 23:00. She talked about how the mymizu platform can be a first step towards solving today’s big environmental problems.
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