Luna Yu is the CEO of Genecis Bioindustries Inc. The facility in Scarborough converts food waste into biodegradable plastics. The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is launching its second...

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Genecis is a biotechnology company that converts organic waste into high quality, PHA biodegradable plastics. We help waste management companies save on organic disposal costs and supply plastic manufacturers with cost-competitive PHAs produced from waste materials rather than food crops.
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Over the past decade, evidence of petroleum-based plastics as a major contributor to pollution and environmental disruption has mounted. As we all take steps to reduce our carbon footprint and...
Preventing nerve damage caused by chemotherapy. Using artificial intelligence to help people who are Deaf communicate with machines through sign language. Accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles in urban communities....
As consumers push-back against single-use, disposable products, scientists are looking at new ways to produce plastics. Genecis has designed a scalable way to genetically engineer bacteria to turn food waste...
U of T startup Genecis scales up effort to commercialize ‘the holy grail of plastic replacement’. Twenty percent of the world’s methane emissions come from landfills. U of T startup...
U of T startup Genecis is turning food waste into biodegradable plastics. The startup was recently featured on PiqueAction’s YouTube channel – watch here.
Young, growing companies are working to meet the challenge of the single-use plastic ban, the Toronto Star reports, and University of Toronto-accelerated startups Erthos and Genecis are among those leading the way. Starting...
One woman entrepreneur will take home the $1-million grand prize. About this event In 2018, MaRS and Natural Resources Canada announced the Women in Cleantech Challenge, a three-year national competition...
Genecis Bioindustries uses highly engineered bacteria to turn food waste into biodegradable natural polymers that can be used to make a range of environmentally friendly products – from T-shirts to...
Food waste continues to be a major problem in North America. The latest studies show that inhabitants of the North American continent waste 168 million tonnes of food each year....
Luna Yu, a U of T alum and founder and CEO of Genecis Bioindustries, realizes that going up against one of the biggest industries in the world, plastics, is an uphill...
The manufacture and import of grocery bags and stir sticks will be prohibited next month. In response, local startups are coming up with novel Earth-friendly alternatives.
Toronto is a city renowned for its entrepreneurial and multicultural spirit and world-class educational institutions, like the University of Toronto. The first-ever Forbes 30 Under 30 Local Toronto list reflects...
Genecis Bioindustries uses bacteria to convert food waste destined for the landfill into biodegradable plastics. Luna Yu, CEO, says the substance the company makes is called polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), and it...