biocellection is the first company to achieve this with recycled plastic film. after hours, it becomes this. we consider this up—cycling, right? we're not exactly making the same thing, but we're making something else that is more valuable and it actually displaces petroleum use, right, because we're using plastic waste instead of petroleum. there is, of course, an awful long way to go before the hard work here can make a dent in the enormous amount of plastic we chuck into landfill every year. the plan is to take this process and bring it on the road. how do you take this idea from being in a lab like this and scaling it to an extent where it can help solve this global plastics problem that we have? we would like to make a piece of equipment that can process this material fairly efficiently, which we would locate on—site, and then the product we would take to, you know, some kind of a central site where we would purify it to our specifications. the company has raised $3 million in funding so far, but in silicon valley, that's pocket change. if this plan works,