Today, less than 10% of packaging plastics are recycled. The rest goes to a landfill or becomes pollution. But longtime friends Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao are poised to radically change that statistic. The duo invented a proprietary chemical recycling technology that breaks down previously unrecyclable plastic into valuable base chemicals. Their startup BioCellection turns each ton of plastic trash into more than $2,500 worth of chemicals and prevents 20 tons of carbon dioxide from being emitted.

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