Tuesday, September 28, 2021
By Carol Truemner, Faculty of Engineering. This is an excerpt from an article originally published on Engineering News.
A student project to reduce plastic waste was recently chosen as the Canadian winner of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Youth Innovation Challenge.
Led by Gabriel Saunders (MBET ’20), the Decomp team received $15,000 in seed funding and the opportunity to present its project to North America’s top environmental officials at the CEC’s 2021 Council Session.
The biotechnology startup seeks to genetically engineer proprietary plastic-degrading microbes that are able to degrade plastics in weeks.
Read the full story on the Faculty of Engineering website.