A shrewd entrepreneur joins the 100+ accelerator program sponsored by brewing giant AB Inbev and home consumables emporium Unilever, and spots a pattern. The breweries have tons of spent grain, and the home consumables have a plastics problem. Build a bridge between the two problems, and you have Mi Terro, a company that takes agricultural waste and processes it into proteins that can be used as a plastic replacement, animal feed and much more. The company just raised $1.5 million to start scaling up production.
“Think of Tide Pods — our material is very similar to the polyvinyl alcohol material that Tide Pods are made out of,” says Robert Luo, the founder at Mi Terro. “Except our product has zero microplastics, unlike the Tide Pods that we use today. Our product is water soluble and can break down into water under room temperature. It is also …
