How does your company’s work support UNSDG 12?
Every piece of content on Green Queen serves to inform, inspire and empower consumers to make healthier and more sustainable choices for the planet and for humanity.

Why should you win the R.A.W. Prize? 
Green Queen was the first media in Asia to realise that the world was going to change seismically and that health, climate and sustainability were going to become the most important issues of our time.

What would you use the grant for, should you win? 
Expand our team so we can produce more content and expand our distribution so we can change more minds. 

What’s one thing you want the judges to know about you and your company?
Green Queen is on a mission to change Asia through our award-winning content—and nothing will stop us.

Founder, Generation Water

What is Generation Water?
Generation Water bottles alkaline water made from the air into re-useable glass bottles to rid the world of plastic bottled water.

What problem does your company aim to solve? 
We aim to eradicate plastic drinking water bottles from the waste cycle.

Can you give us a humblebrag?
Since launching our pilot project in Phuket in September 2018, we have delivered more than half a million glass bottles to four of the Marriott hotels in Phuket. With almost 1,000 hotels just in Phuket alone, we are well on our way towards achieving our goal of removing one billion plastic bottles a year from the waste cycle by 2021.

How does your company’s work support UNSDG 12?
Our manufacturing process requires less energy than traditional bottling processes. Since we are able to make water where it is needed, rather than transport it to where it needs to be, we significantly reduce the logistics required, further reducing our carbon footprint.

Why should you win the R.A.W. Prize? 
Our water-from-air bottling facility is the first of its kind. The facility is expanding, along with our ability to supply water to the rest of Phuket. The need to remove plastic waste is urgent and the demand for our solution is overwhelming. The faster we gain access to funds, the faster we can expand, and the faster we can eradicate plastic water bottles.

What would you use the grant for, should you win? 
We would invest it directly into increasing the level of renewable energy sources for our new facility in Phuket.

What’s one thing you want the judges to know about you and your company?
It’s my duty as a mother to do everything I possibly can to provide a safe and flourishing environment for my daughter. I also believe it is critical for us to stop complaining about the problems and coming up with plans to fix them, and just do it! We want to be the solution and not the problem.

Founder, Live Zero

What is Live Zero?
Live Zero is Hong Kong's first zero waste bulk food store that’s committed to fighting plastic pollution.

What problem does your company aim to solve? 
We want to tackle packaging and food waste by allowing people to shop without waste and also support local social enterprises. Our goal is to limit the amount of waste that ends up in our oceans, which threatens marine life and essentially human health.

Can you give us a humblebrag?
The most impressive fact is that we have saved over 65,535 pieces of plastic from landfill in just one year. And that figure is only based on bulk food products, so in reality the number is likely to be much higher. In weight that’s around 655 tonnes a year, or 1.8 tonnes a day saved from the landfill.

How does your company’s work support UNSDG 12? 
The supermarket policies that lead suppliers to use excessive packaging and waste food are all wrong. Our solution is to help people to shop without bringing waste home, as well as educating them on how to reuse what you already have—recycling is the last option! We are a store, but we are also educating customers on the choices they can make to fight these issues.

Why should you win the R.A.W. Prize? 
So we can continue to educate people to live more sustainably, and fight the plastic and food waste issue within Hong Kong.

What would you use the grant for, should you win? 
We want to make plastic-free shopping more accessible and expand into other areas within Hong Kong, educating and supporting our communities. 

What’s one thing you want the judges to know about you and your company? 
I started this business because I was seeing the amount of waste I was personally making and the sheer volume of waste coming from supermarket packaging. I knew then that this system needs to change.  

We will be revealing the remaining four finalists next week. Stay tuned to our Instagram stories on the evening of September 25 for live coverage of the event.