Following a stint at his uncle’s farm in China’s Qinghai Province in 2018, seeing the amount of milk, milk products and all dairy-processing wastes, Robert Luo began contemplating how to manage these surpluses. And so, that same year, he co-founded Mi Terro in the U.S., a company that originally intended to use milk waste for the creation of degradable textile fibers to make clothes.
“These clothes are soft to the skin and smooth to the touch,” Luo told Beijing Review.
But his ambitions went well beyond fashion and today, Mi Terro has transformed itself into a biotechnology company that is revolutionizing