There’s no formula for scientific innovation. Sometimes, it just happens because the right person reads the right paper on the right day in the right place. This was the case for Scott Munguía, the young founder of a bioplastics maker in Monterrey, Mexico.

In 2011, as a 21-year-old chemical engineering student at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, one of Mexico’s top universities, Munguía was cruising through his remaining time at school.

“I was looking for something to make a business out of, or really, just something to keep me interested as I finished studying,” he said.

One day, a professor assigned a paper about the chemical composition of bioplastics. This type of plastic is made from biomass—usually corn—and can degrade naturally in a matter of years. The traditional, petroleum-based variety accounts for about 99 percent of the world’s plastic and much of it will still be decomposing for centuries..........................Read more

Source: Business Line