BioCellection Inc. is a San José-based technology company that is inventing and commercializing a novel proprietary process to turn unrecyclable plastic waste with organic contamination and ocean
plastics into 12 chemicals with global markets worth a total of $83 billion. BioCellection aims to serve waste recovery companies and city governments on the front end to provide a high impact landfill diversion service for hard-to-recycle plastic waste. On the downstream end, BioCellection aims to sell industrial precursors and chemicals generated from plastic trash to supply the chemical, synthetic biology, and materials industries. Based out of the San José BioCube, the
company is a seed stage startup with 5 full-time employees, an experienced advisory board, a patent-pending chemical process, and in-house chemical reactors and analytical equipment. The team is currently working on a 20x scale-up through a paid pilot collaboration with the City of San José and GreenWaste Recovery, Inc. BioCellection was founded at the University of Pennsylvania, where cofounders Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao started building their proof of concept in the chemical engineering lab 2 years after giving a TED Talk about plastic pollution biodegradation.
BioCellection was the 2016 winner of the Wharton Business Plan Competition, and has received grant funding from the Schmidt Family Foundation and VentureWell.
