Mushroom Packaging Of The Future

Inhabitat:

Ecovative Design in New York has used mushrooms to create a heat and fire-resistant, energy-absorbing, biodegradable (even anaerobically, without oxygen), and low-energy material called Mycobond.

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Comments

[m2b]

01:42 AM on 09/14/2010

That picture looks alot like a magic mushroom.

[BannedNBoston]

12:00 PM on 09/13/2010

Legalize hemp and have hemp pizza boxes!

Piping Plovers and road less areas over people!!!
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[fumes]

07:44 AM on 09/13/2010

what's the morel of this story..

[Abenormal]

07:36 AM on 09/13/2010

This can be very dangerous for people who have serious mushroom allergies.

[mixpiklix]

12:40 AM on 09/13/2010

how much will the cost of mushrooms go up. everytime somebody figures out a way to do something with food other food it skyrockets in price, why not pick on a food that we don't eat much of like turnips or sun chokes and there are several others that would make the list. turnip packaging would be cool and even if turnips when up in price it would be ok. but i don't want to $3.00 more for a piza because of mushroom packaging.

[jsarets]

06:42 AM on 09/13/2010

These are not edible mushrooms or even mushrooms of any sort.  This is a type of mold.  If you were to find it on your pizza, you would call the shop to complain about your moldy pizza.

[mixpiklix]

08:55 AM on 09/13/2010

in that case they can go for it

[Amadahy]

09:46 AM on 09/14/2010

Totally mixpiklix. LOL You had me at the turnips suggestion­. Yuck.

[DRaymond]

09:06 PM on 09/12/2010

Every environmen­talist seems so down on packing peanuts, but I don't get their point.  Unlike most forms of packaging packing peanuts are infinitely reusable and can pack and protect any shape item.  So you get something in the mail cushioned in packing peanuts.  Do you throw them away?  No, you put them in a big bag and use them for packing something else.  When you get that packing peanut do you know how many times it has been used?  One or ten or a hundred or a thousand?  Does it protect any less?  People who study landfills say that there are actually very vew packing peanuts in the landfills themselves­.  They are just being reused over and over again.

[jsarets]

02:15 PM on 09/12/2010

This is not a mushroom.  It's a mold.  Not all fungi are mushrooms.  Yeasts and molds make up the majority of the fungal kingdom.  Pharmaceut­ical giant Astra Zeneca, the former owner of the Quorn brand of mycoprotei­n food products, was sued in the United States for referring to the mold Fusarium venenatum as a type of mushroom in marketing materials.