Insia Jafaji

Well, we'll start here.

So this is actually our lab and this is where we really start with the process.

Exactly.

So you've got the microorganisms that you grow up in, things like petri dishes, they're exactly correct.

You scale it up using, like, fermentation, and then you actually end up with a material that looks just like a white powder, but when you turn it into pellets, it honestly is just...

Like plastic.

So the material itself is basically, it's a polymer that a microorganism has grown.

Different bacteria, they can grow inside of their cell, a polymer, and all we are doing is taking it outside of their cell and then processing it.

So if we walk down here, this is like our material creation area, which we kind of describe as a giant Play-Doh machine.

A big mixer where you put all of your ingredients in and then it's heated with a screw and then what you end up getting is like a filament and then you chop it up and then that's how you make all these different pellets.

Actually, I'll take you over to see some of the live bottles.

One of our largest customers is actually someone owned by Unilever, which is a brand called Wild Cosmetics.

They use it for deodorant, body wash, shampoo.

We're launching in the oral care industry.

Yeah, because actually what I'll show you here is these are all of our products.

You pop them in a solid environment and now you can see they're being eaten by microorganisms.

Yeah.

exactly because they've started to decompose and they're breaking down completely but it is the mind-blowing thing right like you just saw that and looked exactly like plastic so you can use it for anything but only when it ends up in a microbridge environment which happens to be our natural environments it'll break down and completely decompose

Yeah, I am an optimistic person and I feel like you inherently have to be.

So yes, I think anything is possible.