Problem: Plastics are useful and inexpensive but are manufactured out of fossil fuels, used once and then thrown away and create systemic health & environmental health risks. Solution: Develop biodegradable plastics that are less expensive than petrochemicals while having similar or better material properties. Breakthrough technology that makes it possible: Bacteria eat methane gas from […]

New York, NY September 24, 2012 – CEO and engineer Molly Morse is the 2012 winner of the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge, the world’s largest annual award for sustainable entrepreneurship. Morse received $630,000 (€500,000) to develop her promising green business. Her company, Mango Materials, uses bacteria to turn methane gas into affordable biodegradable plastic. Two other […]

Amsterdam, 17 September 2012 – Molly Morse of the United States, Daan Weddepohl of the  Netherlands and Nick Gerritsen of New Zealand will travel to New York for Sunday’s Postcode Lottery Green Challenge 2012 final, the jury announced at the PICNIC Festival 2012. The three startup entrepreneurs will vie for a €500,000 prize that will help the […]