Luckily there are some people out there who are looking for ways to help save the planet. Romain Vailleux, co-founder and community manager at Paris-based Hop-Cube, is one of them. His startup offers a new approach to sustainable development by providing ecological scoring on a wide range of consumer goods. The service is specifically designed for online marketplaces and will be displayed next to each product referenced in the product catalog.
„Hop-Cube gathers information that is already accessible to the public, analizes and ranks it with a specific score out of ten given by our HopScore indicator“ explains Romain. „All kinds of criteria like conception, transport, usage of the product and its recycling are applied. We also collaborate with eco-labels to bring their labels to the consumer.“ E-commerce companies pay based on a monthly subscription - around €5 per product for the scoring service, but Hop-Cube also makes different offers depending on the company size and the number of visitors on the website.
There are some eco-portals providing information on the web, but other than Hop-Cube’s service at one glance, these portals oblige the users to come to their portal and choose their products through it. Anyone interested in providing more support for Hob-Cube: They just started two months ago and still need consumers to help them continue as well as funding in order to grow further...
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