We are providing a service to process this material at a price that is comparable to [the cost of sending it to] landfills,” - Miranda Wang

We found the most efficient degraders came from the local landfill.” Nature was indeed evolving ways of dealing with the problem, one that we could someday use

Plastics are useful, but the downside of this convenience is that plastics cause serious problems like the destruction of ecosystems.”

This technology can become the pillar of what would enable people around the world to mine landfills for plastics as a new carbon source,” Wang said. “We don’t have to drill for oil anymore to make the things around us.”