Mango Materials is developing an innovative biomanufacturing process that converts waste methane from sources like wastewater treatment plants into biodegradable plastic (PHA), tackling both plastic pollution and potent greenhouse-gas emissions simultaneously.

Mango Materials was recognized in Biofuels Digest’s Bioeconomy 500 for 2025, celebrating global leaders shaping the future of sustainable innovation. The acknowledgment highlights Mango Materials’ pioneering work turning methane emissions into biodegradable PHA materials that support a circular, low-carbon economy.

Mango Materials CEO Dr. Molly Morse joined U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright at Berkeley Lab to share the company’s vision for a sustainable plastics future, featuring biodegradable YOPP pellets and product prototypes. The visit highlighted Mango Materials’ role in advancing the bioeconomy through collaborative, science-driven innovation.

In the podcast “From Gas to Glam,” Molly Morse, CEO and co-founder of Mango Materials, details how her company turns methane into PHA bioplastics, discusses partnerships with wastewater facilities and brands, and lays out the challenges and opportunities of scaling biodegradable polymer production

Mango Materials is developing a process to convert methane from waste (e.g. biogas at a wastewater plant) into the biodegradable polymer PHA at scale, aiming for a distributed manufacturing model to rival petroleum plastics.

Mango Materials is heading a BioMADE-funded project (running through June 2026) to scale a methane-to-PHA biomanufacturing process, aiming to enable decentralized, low-resource production of biodegradable plastics.

One of the 17 BioMADE-funded projects will scale up Mango Materials’ gas fermentation process to convert methane into biodegradable PHA polymers, enabling decentralized biomaterials manufacturing.

There’s no place like home and for Mango Materials, that is the City of Vacaville which recently approved a long term lease and biogas purchase agreement to support Mango Materials commercial scale up.

Mango Materials collaborates with Berkeley Lab ABPDU to optimize our process and test out industrial-scale relevant equipment.

Mango Materials and a group from the Colorado School of Mines test bioreactor on weightless parabolic flights. This research could lead to 3D printing of bioplastic in space.