Jeanny Yao's guest appearances

Jeanny Yao

TEDTalks الأسرة والأطفال

Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®

Ripples of Radical Generosity

Miranda Wang

Jennifer Pharr Davis

Elizabeth Lindsey

Vicki Saunders

Arielle Loren

Sarah Hyland

Melody Warnick

Brandi DeCarli

Vanessa Marshall

Kelly Jones

Suzanne Biegel

Sam Johnstone

Ilana Ben-Ari

Sandra Kwak

Margaret Magdesian

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The Value of Recycling with Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao Today, less than 10% of packaging plastics are recycled. The rest is sent to landfills or becomes pollution. Our special guests today are long-term friends who are working together to change that statistic. They are entrepreneurs, environmental advocates and inventors, Miranda Wang and Jeannie Yao, are co-founders of BioCellection, a company that turns unrecyclable plastic waste into valuable chemicals. Their work with BioCellection has earned them many accolades, including Rolex Awards for Enterprise Laureate, and the Forbes 30 under 30. Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including  ,  , , . See you in two weeks! Helpful Links:  Women’s Wealth: The Middle Way®  Glen Eagle  BioCellection  2019 Rolex Awards Laureate Documentary: Miranda Wang  Forbes: BioCellection cofounders named Forbes 30 Under 30 for Social Entrepreneurship     Interview Transcript: Susan Michel: Welcome back to Women’s Wealth: The Middle Way®, the show that answers your questions about work, money, and family. My name is Susan McGlory Michel and I am the CEO and founder of Glen Eagle, a wealth management firm in New Jersey.  Today, less than 10% of packaging plastics are recycled. The rest is sent to landfills or becomes pollution. Our special guests today are long term friends who are working together to change that statistic. They are entrepreneurs, environmental advocates and inventors, Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao, are co-founders of BioCellection, a company that turns unrecyclable plastic waste into valuable chemicals. Their work with BioCellection has earned them many accolades, including Rolex Awards for Enterprise Laureate, and the Forbes 30 under 30. Welcome to the show, Miranda and Jeanny. Miranda Wang: Hi. Thanks for having us.  Susan Michel: Miranda, I'll begin with you because you both have such an impressive career and it's very unique, that you're both close friends, which I think is probably a great goal to have when you're starting something and have similar goals and aspirations. Miranda, can you start by telling us a little more about your inspiration as co-founder of BioCellection? And what is your primary goal? What was the idea that launched this as friends and then as a career?  Miranda Wang: Yeah, we founded BioCellection when we were still students in college. And Jeanny and I had met each other when we were still in high school. So we go way back for more than 10 years of working together and being friends with each other. And we first came across a plastic pollution problem and realized that less than 9% of plastics produced annually are actually getting recycled. That’s a really shocking statistic for lots of people. And so, so realizing this, when we were 15 years old, really shaped the way that we decided to pursue our education in college. And then in 2015, when we decided to talk about this problem again, we realized that this was really something we wanted to get back into and do something about. And we really believed in using mission-driven for profit-businesses to create market-driven solutions. What we identified is that there was a gap. There's a gap today in the world of recycling and that the reason so little plastic is getting recycled, is that we actually lack economical recycling technologies in the world. For most of the packaging that we produce, that packaging usually gets highly contaminated with food or dirt or grease by the time it gets to a recycling plant. And it's actually cheaper today to landfill those plastics than it is to recycle it. We came together and decided there has to be a technology solution that is embedded in a business that allows us to take in plastics that are not recyclable today and use these plastics as a resource so that we can actually build...

The Value of Recycling with Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao

BioCellection co-founders Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao met in their eighth-grade recycling club. Today they are innovating chemical recycling of plastics, transforming packaging waste material into valuable chemicals and performance materials that stay in the economy longer.  "We're contributing to a new type of circular economy that is more beneficial because it just gives more opportunities for these molecules that are stuck in the traditional petrochemicals to be used in different parts of our economy. Different parts of our supply chain." In this episode:   Jeanny and Miranda’s journey from recycling club to innovation start-up  How BioCellection is creating a new type of circular economy by recycling plastic packaging waste into valuable chemicals and performance materials  The different types of recycling and the communication challenges of the recycling industry Creating and managing a relationship-based, flat structured team BioCellection’s plans for a commercial waste facility The importance of plastic and recycling education go change consumers, and in turn change business  We invite you to become a SheEO Activator or apply to be a SheEO Venture at SheEO.World.

BioCellection co-founders Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao met in their eighth-grade recycling club. Today they are innovating chemical recycling of plastics, transforming packaging waste material into valuable chemicals and performance materials that stay in the economy longer.  <blockquote>"We're contributing to a new type of circular economy that is more beneficial because it just gives more opportunities for these molecules that are stuck in the traditional petrochemicals to be used in different parts of our economy. Different parts of our supply chain."</blockquote> In this episode:  <ul> <li>Jeanny and Miranda’s journey from recycling club to innovation start-up </li> <li>How BioCellection is creating a new type of circular economy by recycling plastic packaging waste into valuable chemicals and performance materials </li> <li>The different types of recycling and the communication challenges of the recycling industry</li> <li>Creating and managing a relationship-based, flat structured team</li> <li>BioCellection’s plans for a commercial waste facility</li> <li>The importance of plastic and recycling education go change consumers, and in turn change business</li> </ul> We invite you to become a SheEO Activator or apply to be a SheEO Venture at <a href="http://sheeo.world/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SheEO.World</a>.

Innovating the plastic waste supply chain with Miranda Wang + Jeanny Yao, BioCellection