Miranda Wang (born in 1994), is the co-founder of Novoloop (formerly BioCellection, Inc.), which is a company that aims to turn plastic waste into high-performance materials that can be used in a variety of products.
[2] Wang and her cofounder, Jeanny Yao, attended Magee Secondary School in Vancouver, British Columbia when they entered the Sanofi Biogenius Canada Competition in 2012.
This competition allowed them to work with the help of mentors, University of British Columbia professor Lindsay Eltis, Dr. Adam Crowe, and Dr. James Round, to discover bacteria in the Fraser River that could eat phthalates.
In addition to saving the recycled plastic from landfills, the company's process also produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than the production of other materials.
Having developed an economical way of recycling polyethylene (PE) plastics, Novoloop is working to build a fully commercial processing plant.