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Fish Food Using Plastic Waste
Sustainability Next
|December 2016
During her school, one day, Miranda Wang was distraught at seeing a huge landfill with plastic contributing to most of the urban waste.
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She decided to do whatever it takes to address the problem of plastic. A few years later, she is now sitting on patents that could transform plastic into fish food.
Miranda Wang, studied cell and molecular biology, engineering entrepreneurship and philosophy, at the University of Pennsylvania. She was determined to blend her knowledge of microbiology, chemistry and entrepreneurship. She cofounded BioCellection in 2015, a startup that uses biological techniques to create a new kind of fish food using plastic waste.
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