St. John’s-based Unbound Chemicals is tackling a big problem – the waste produced by the pharmaceutical industry.
The company is developing a process to unlock the valuable ingredients from pharmaceutical waste. It’s an issue that has been highlighted by the pandemic, which has revealed faultlines in global supply chains, according to Blaine Edwards, company Founder and CEO.
Unbound began in 2018 after Edwards read that, in general, for every kilogram of drug produced, 100 kilograms of waste are created.
“I wondered why. How could this possibly be the case?” said Edwards in an interview.