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![3 amazing biomaterials that are growing a more sustainable world](https://www.mangomaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/jordan-merrick-hgh3-ZMXkx0-unsplash-scaled-e1590801975530-1024x622.jpg)
Mango Materials, along with Ecovative and BioMason (all Postcode Lottery Green Challenge winners!), were featured in a recent Fast Company online article. Each of these companies presented at the Biofabricate conference in New York City in December 2014. To read about these amazing forward thinking companies, click here.
![Mango Materials participates in the LAUNCH Green Chemistry Forum](https://www.mangomaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/jahsie-ault-Ff-8qead8H4-unsplash-1024x682.jpg)
Mango Materials was selected as one of 10 innovators to participate in the LAUNCH Green Chemistry Forum this past week. With events located both at the Melbourne Hilton Oceanfront and Kennedy Space Center, Mango Materials was able to converse with over 40 council members in the field of green chemistry. These experts provided the Mango […]
![Mango Materials moves on methane gas for bioplastics](https://www.mangomaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mel-poole-ToI01Apo4Pk-unsplash-1024x680.jpg)
Mango Materials was featured in a recent post from Food Production Daily: Methane gas could be used as a feedstock to produce affordable PHA bioplastic, according to the CEO of a US-based start-up. Click here to read the article.
![Mango Materials #33 of 40 Hottest Smaller Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy](https://www.mangomaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mathis-jrdl-1AwGus3QVE4-unsplash-1024x682.jpg)
Mango Materials was named one of the 40 Hottest Smaller Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy. It was the first year for the Hot 40, which recognizes companies with less than 50 full-time employees and $20 million or less in annual revenues. Click here to read about the companies and see the full list!
![4 minutes with Molly Morse, CEO of Mango Materials](https://www.mangomaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0539-e1589482863739-1024x716.jpg)
“It seems to us in Digestville that if you open a door in Emeryville, California — roughly thirty companies tumble out, so hot is the early-stage activity there — and a lot of it about companies chasing high-value targets via methane. In the case of Mango Materials — the products are bioplastics, via bacteria — […]
![Mango Materials article on NBC News](https://www.mangomaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/utsav-shah-R1Z2tCpl9Zk-unsplash-1024x1280.jpg)
Mango Materials was featured in an NBC News article discussing alternative plastics. “The engines behind the greenhouse gas to plastic conversion technology are microorganisms that feed on methane or carbon dioxide pumped into vessels of liquid. The microbes — some enhanced through genetic engineering, others improved via selective breeding – accumulate a biopolymer inside their […]
![Mango Materials featured in IFL Science](https://www.mangomaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bill-oxford-tR0PPLuN6Pw-unsplash-1024x682.jpg)
Although an extremely useful material, plastic is an environmental disaster. It clogs up landfills, it litters our oceans and it can be harmful to various organisms. Developing biodegradable plastics that can be produced in a viable and sustainable manner has proved difficult in the past. But all may not be lost as scientists at Stanford […]
![Mango Materials selected to present at CleanEquity Monaco 2014](https://www.mangomaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/matthias-mullie-HQYA_WugkGg-unsplash-1024x632.jpg)
From PR Newswire: Mango Materials has been identified by an expert panel as one of the world’s most innovative cleantech companies and has been selected to present to senior financial and strategic cleantech investors, policy makers, legislators, end users and media. Mango Materials will present at CleanEquity Monaco 2014 on March 27th & 28th at […]
![A biodegradable plastic made from waste methane](https://www.mangomaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bacteria-SEM-group-e1420745641609.jpg)
What if we could make the Great Pacific Garbage Patch just disappear? What if plastics didn’t accumulate in our landfills? What if we could reduce greenhouse gas emissions while replacing up to 30% of the world’s plastics with a biodegradable substitute? The National Science Foundation in partnership with CEP helped to find some answers to these questions by featuring Mango Materials in […]
![Changing Cities: A Lottery That Helps Save The World](https://www.mangomaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/marc-kargel-Zg9Jwm86LRw-unsplash-1024x576.jpg)
ABC was covering Mango Materials as they tried to win the Postcode Lottery worth $500,000 Euros ($630,000 USD). Read the Full Article Here – Changing Cities: A Lottery That Helps Save the World