00:00Microbites is a novel food production technology where we convert both crop waste and plastic waste
00:07into its initial building blocks and feed those initial building blocks to a consortium or a
00:14group of engineered yeast. They convert these initial building blocks into protein and then
00:21we use that protein to 3D print our protein cookies. I think converting plastic into food
00:28is beneficial over recycling it because of two reasons. One is we are providing a solution for
00:36plastic waste accumulation in the environment. Secondly, we are providing an alternative food
00:41source to answer the food scarcity issues currently the world is facing. If you want to produce food in
00:49a very extreme environment using the resource you have, carbon resource waste like Arctic or the
00:55desert and potentially one day in the Mars or the lunar surface, Microbites can do that job.
