Each year the world manufactures over 460 million tonnes of virgin plastic and this is expected to triple by 2050, with more than half of it ending up in landfill or choking our landscapes and oceans. It is an environmental catastrophe of our own making, but nestled on Auckland’s North Shore, a tight-knit team of Kiwi scientists and engineers is quietly orchestrating a brilliant revolution.

By rewriting the chemical rules of upcycling, deep tech startup NILO has figured out how to turn mountains of discarded plastic waste into high-performance industrial adhesives, offering a radical solution to a global pollution crisis while taking aim at a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing market.....

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