Overview
Led by Trevor Charles, University of Waterloo, this project will focus on using bacterial genomics and synthetic biology approaches to create bioplastics. The use of plastics is widespread in society. However, the detrimental environmental consequences of plastic pollution have raised the need for alternatives. This work, using waste methane as feedstock, could lead to the production of valuable renewable materials from a potent greenhouse gas that is a key waste product of landfills and wastewater treatment systems.