Re-engineer Food Waste Into Fibers

There are two components of our technology. 

First, we turn bad food into good food. We extract bacterial-grown casein protein from bad milk and purify it into "good" casein protein. Once we have the "good" casein protein, it can potentially be made into healthy food again. This solution not only saves millions of food from going to waste but also feed people in need. 

Second, we re-engineer the good casein protein into biodegradable fibers and biopolymers that can be used for fashion, medical, and packaging industries. We are giving food waste a new life.

We created the world's first sustainable apparel line made from excess milk. We are also creating food packaging film made from cheese whey waste. Our goal is replacing petroleum materials with protein-based materials made from food waste.

We help farmers, food processors, and grocery stores to turn their spoiled and expired food into good food. 

Food waste creates 3.3 billion tons of greenhouse gases. 128 million tons of milk are thrown away every year globally. The world doesn't need another food delivery service, it needs a solution to solve food waste.

There are two components of our technology. 

First, we developed a patent-pending process called "Pro-Act"(Protein Activation) to extract bacterial grown casein protein molecules from expired and spoiled milk.

In order to guarantee a high-quality casein protein, we need to purify the bacteria from the milk. Once we extract the bacterial grown casein protein from the expired and spoiled milk, we use "Sea-Re" (self-assembly purification) to purify the casein protein. Think about it as turning "bad" food into "good" food.

The first component of our technology not only saves millions of food from going to waste but also feed people in need. We can help reduce global hunger.

Second, once we have the purified casein protein, we then integrate a new technique called DFS (Dynamic flow shear spinning). This technique spins the casein protein into fibers which can be used for fashion, medical, and packaging industries. With this technique, we can ensure the uniformity and quality of our fibers.

The second component of our technology re-engineers food waste into protein fiber that can provide high-quality, affordable, and sustainable alternative solutions to petroleum based materials.

We are taking a world problem and making it into a world solution.

We are working with Dairy Farmers of America to help struggling farmers by open-sourcing our process to agricultural plants to turn their food waste into fiber for their own product or local material supply. We are partnering with Operation Food Search, a St.Louis food donation nonprofit organization, to donate 20 meals to a child in need for every purchase. We also partner with Eden Reforestation Projects to plant 15 trees for every purchase.

We are helping grocery stores, farmers, and food processors to reduce operation cost on food waste by turning it into useful and sustainable products at an affordable cost.

First, we turn bad food into good food. We extract bacterial-grown casein protein from bad milk and purify it into "good" casein protein. Once we have the "good" casein protein, it can potentially be made into healthy food to feed people in need. 

Second, we re-engineer the good casein protein into biodegradable and affordable fibers and biopolymers that can be used to replace petroleum-based materials in the fashion, medical, and packaging industries. We are giving food waste a new meaning of economic value for a better environmental cause.

We are taking a world problem and making it into a world solution.

Qmilk is a German company that blends fresh milk protein with acrylic (petroleum material) to create fiber, which is costly, time-consuming, and harmful to the environment and the human body. Compare to Qmilk, Mi Terro has the world's only technology that directly uses milk waste (expired & spoiled), and the final product is 100% biodegradable. Our fiber is cheaper than organic cotton and modal, requires 60% less water compared to organic cotton, and 100% biodegradable. We partner with Dairy Farmers of America, Danone, Nestle, and GM to secure our upstream resources. We also have partners like Nike and H&M. We are consolidating the entire supply chain. We've filed 2 patents and will file 4 more inventions in 2020. We also have a team of serial entrepreneurs, Ph.D. material scientists, professors, chemists, and marketing experts that have demonstrated successful results. 

We developed a patent-pending technology called "Pro-Act"(Protein Activation) to extract casein protein molecules from the bacterial grown expired and spoiled milk. 

In order to guarantee a high-quality casein protein, we need to remove the bacteria from the casein protein. We then use another patent-pending technology called "Sea-Re" (self-assembly purification) to purify the bacterial-grown casein protein into good casein protein. Theoretically, once we have good casein protein, it can be made into food again to help hungry people that are in need. Think about it as turning "bad" food into "good" food.

Once we have the purified casein protein, we then integrate a new technique called DFS (Dynamic flow shear spinning). This technique uses wet-spinning process to spin the casein protein into biodegradable fibers that can be used for fashion, medical, and packaging industries. With this technique, we can ensure the uniformity and quality of our fibers. 

We have filed 2 patents. We will file 4 more invention patents in 2020. Nike has purchased our fiber and products to conduct more testings. We supplied Danone's entire Dairy Forum 2020 swag. We also sold products and fibers to Toyoshima.

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Our mission is to end food waste by re-engineering it into sustainable fibers that can be used for fashion, medical, and packaging industries.

Currently, there are 3 solution to reduce food waste:

1. Send it to landfill 

2. Feed it to livestock

3. Use software to monitor the food's expiration date at the grocery stores and lower the price when the expiration date is near. 

We are developing a cutting-edge technology that can turn inedible bad food into good food. 

We also turn good food into fibers and biopolymers that can be substitutes of plastic. The application of our technology is beyond imagination. We are taking a world problem and making it into a world solution.

We have generated more than $100,000 online sales in the first 9 months, selling to customers from 40 countries. We've launched our products in China Japan. 

We have 2100 individual customers. Because of our revolutionary technology, Nike, Danone, Toyoshima, XRC Lab, and Ping An Insurance are our clients. We have signed LOI with H&M, Ralph Lauren, and Richemont. 

Through our partnerships, we will serve more than 50,000 people in one year. In 5 years, we will serve 1 million people. We want to reduce 20% of the world's dairy waste in 5 years.

We are partnering with Dairy Farmers of America, which has a network of 13000 dairy farmers in the US, to help struggling farmers.

In the next year, we will fully develop the newest version of our fiber technology and secure our upstream resources. We will begin to help retail stores, farmers, and food processors to reduce their milk waste. In addition, we will continue to donate meals and plant trees. We will also develop a functional prototype for our food packaging film made of whey.

In the next 5 years, we will build several laboratories and plants in the US and in other countries to reduce food waste and turn it into sustainable fibers and polymers. We plan to help one million farmers and plant one million trees in 5 years. We will expand our market to Asia and Europe. We will build partnerships in fashion, medical, bedding, and packaging industries.

In the next year, we need to secure upstream excess milk resource with grocery stores, farmers, and food processors. We also need to finish developing the newest version of our fiber technology and food packaging film technology. 

In the next five years, we will monopolize our upstream excess milk resource and expand our technology to other types of food waste. We will expand our market to Asia and Europe.

We have to scale up our R&D facility in Shanghai to develop our products on a bigger scale. We will build more laboratories in China and the US. We will hire more material scientists and chemists. 

We will also build extraction and spinning facilities in the US to scale up our production. We plan to license our technology to other companies in 5 years. We are currently partnering with Dairy Farmers of America. We are also in contacts with several retailers, including Kroger, Target, and Aldi, to collaborate. 

The Elevate Prize fund will help us scale up our commercial pilot, build a new extraction facility, and recruit talents.

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2 full-time (CEO and CTO)

3 part-time

1 intern

We are the perfect team to deliver the result. We have a team of serial entrepreneurs, Ph.D. material scientists, professors, chemists, and experienced marketing experts. 50% of our team members are females.

Robert, the Founder and CEO, is a three-time entrepreneur. He sold his first company for $300,000 while he studied at the University of Southern California. He is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He is a Forbes Under 30 Scholar and Global Shaker's Sustainable Fashion Innovator 2019. He is the youngest Entrepreneur Hall of Fame at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. He is a recipient of "25 Under 25" by Social Entrepreneur Magazine. He is also a recipient of the All America Chinese Youth Federation "Top 30 Under 30". He is also a GreenBiz "30 Under 30" honoree. 

We are a vendor of Danone to reduce their milk waste. We provided swag for their dairy forum 2020.

We partner with Operation Food Search to donate 20 meals to child in need for every purchase.

We partner with Eden Reforestation Projects to plant 15 trees for every purchase.

We are partnering with Dairy Farmers of America to help dairy farmers and producers. 

Nike has purchase our products and fibers to conduct more testing.

Our business model is B2B2C and licensing. We can sell fiber and final products (customized and standard). We will license our technology once it is patented.

We have to scale up our R&D facility in Shanghai to develop our products on a bigger scale. We will build more laboratories in China and the US. We will hire more material scientists and chemists. 

We will also build factories in the US to scale up our production. We plan to license our technology to other companies in 5 years. We are currently partnering with Dairy Farmers of America. We are also in contacts with several retailers, including Kroger, Target, and Aldi, to collaborate. 

The Elevate Prize fund will help us scale up our commercial pilot and build a new laboratory. We will continue to recruit talents to join our team. We also want to partner with Universities and academic researching organization to improve our knowledge on the material science industry.

Our partnership goals include: 

1. Securing our upstream resource with farmers, food processors, farmers, and grocery stores

2. Partnering with academic institutes to develop our technology

3. Signing deals with our B2B customers 

4. Partnering with NGO to support the underrepresented communities 

5. Recruit talents

Food waste resource: Grocery stores (Kroger, Target, WholeFoods, etc.) and Food processors (Chobani, Nestle, GM, etc.)

NGO: WWF, Greenpeace

Client: Fashion (Nike, Lululemon, Ralph Lauren, Richemont, etc.) and Packaging companies (Nestle, Chobani, etc.)