Launch Bioindustries

What they’re doing: Single-use plastics are being banned in cities around the world for health and environmental reasons. Launch is using precision fermentation to grow microbes from food waste that become a key ingredient in a variety of high-performance bioplastic products.

How will this be used in the real world? Bioplastics have half the carbon footprint of traditional petroleum-based plastics. Launch’s organic waste upcycling method is creating plastics that can be fully composted in soil or water, reducing the amount of both food and plastic garbage headed to landfills.