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Creating impact-driven solutions for optimizing post-consumer waste management.
onezero8 is a female-led company dedicated to solving the global challenges of sustainable fashion production.
We are in the business of helping companies to implement more effective recycling and waste-minimising processes.
onezero8 is holistic by nature, with each number in ‘onezero8’ bearing a special significance on what we do and how we operate
Founder and CEO
20+ years in the fashion industry as a model, label owner, and sustainable incubator founder. Born and raised in South Africa, she has experienced the impact of poor post-consumer waste management first hand, and created onezero8 as a solution to tackle the global textile waste crisis.
Head of Product
PhD in Computer Science and a background in Psychology. She previously founded an AI startup leveraging LLMs to improve teamwork in high performance environments. An Ada Fellow and Global Talent recipient, she is passionate about building disruptive AI solutions.
Head of Business Development
20+ years in fashion innovation and policy, she works on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) Global Innovation Projects. She chairs the Culture and Creative Industries Taskforce, lectures at University of the Arts London, and is a Board Advisor of the Munich Fashion Award.
In an interview with Shape Innovate Founder & CEO Muchaneta ten Napel, Kuben Edwards, CEO and Founder of Onezero8 talks about how her startup company is providing circular solutions for fashion waste.
“My goal is to keep our waste in the UK and get it back to the public and not in landfills in Africa and Asia. This will hopefully make a small dent on a big problem”.
-Kuben Edwards, interviewed at Munich Fabric Start, Munich, Germany, January 2023.