The student team BioMaas from Maastricht has won the first edition of the Young Plastic Pollution Challenge with their plan to investigate which organic waste is suitable for producing fully compostable products like cups, bowls, plates, and packaging materials.

Their idea is to sell these products to companies in Maastricht that participate in the collection of the required organic material. They also want to publish the production methods completely open-source and thus make them available to everyone.

BioMaas is a multicultural and multidisciplinary team of students and recent graduates from Maastricht University and the University of Technology in Eindhoven. Like the other winners, BioMaas will execute their plan within the coming two years and will be coached for three months by experienced entrepreneurs and investors in sustainable technologies.

 Published by plasticsoupfoundation.org