March 4, 2021
Menlo Park, Calif.’s Novoloop announced on Feb. 23 that it had developed XIRC, a customizable thermoplastic polyurethane material comprising up to 50 percent post-consumer polyethylene waste, which aids in the reduction of trash from single-use plastics. Photo courtesy of Novoloop
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Founded during the college years of friends Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao, the Menlo Park, Calif., BioCellection formed with a goal of developing processes to transform traditionally unrecyclable plastics into materials that could be upcycled into new products.
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