Bayuble Create Compostable Fruit Stickers
Sarah Wixon, Zoe Rookes and Maggie Peacock met at high school in Hawkes Bay when they were placed in a team together for the Young Enterprise Scheme. Their business Bayuble and idea to create compostable fruit stickers won the region’s Young Enterprise Scheme award in 2018. Now at University, the three founders placed third equal in Soda’s latest seed grant.
Tell us about Bayuble...
Bayuble is a business focused on creating home compostable packaging from food waste - starting with fruit stickers. It was founded by three young wahine who wanted to solve an environmental problem - no matter how 'small'.
How did the idea for Bayuble come about?
We knew we wanted to solve some sort of environmental problem and simply looked around us. We were surrounded by orchards living in the fruit bowl of New Zealand (Hawkes Bay) and realised how annoying fruit stickers were, not to mention that they are made of plastic! We did some research and discovered there were no viable alternatives to the current plastic fruit stickers so decided to do something about it.
What stage is your business currently at?
We are currently in a development phase and looking forward to taking our next step into the market as soon as possible.
What has been your biggest entrepreneurial challenge so far?
Finding a good balance between, Bayuble, life, and university studies was an initial challenge, hence we left things on the backburner for our first year of study.
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