One of the ways to disrupt our plastic problem is to make plastics that degrade much faster and this is what the disruptive environmentalists I speak to today are doing, and they are doing this in the most environmentally way possible by using the waste product from another industry as the raw ingredient.
Following on from last week I wanted to talk to a startup who are still fairly near the beginning of their disruptive environmental business journey and see how they are approaching things. Tony Bova and Jeff Beegle met at University in Ohio studying bioengineering and found friendship through a shared passion for environmental issues and entrepreneurship. After both attending grad school at The University of Tennessee, they went on to eventually to apply work Tony had been working on in the program to set up the company Mobius.
Many people may find themselves working on issues such as this just like Jeff and Tony during time spent in academia but until someone takes that research and puts it out there in the world for consumers to buy, the possibility of solving the environmental problem is all just theory. I want to see what the journey has looked like for these guys taking the leap from academia into entrepreneurship and the challenges they’ve faced and lessons they’ve learned so far.