Circular Economy
Kickstarter encourages designers to incorporate sustainability into their projects. 

The designers behind HuskeeCup make the reusable cup out of husk waste material from the production of coffee.

β€œThe crowdsourcing platform β€” which helped launch more than 9,000 projects over the past 12 months β€” is encouraging other designers to embed environmental and sustainable sourcing criteria into their planning and ideas at a very early stage of creation.”
Article: How Kickstarter is encouraging designers to consider circularity and other environmental factors