Eco-friendly Packaging - TechKnow

"TechKnow," expert contributor Lindsay Moran travels to Green Island, NY, to investigate how mushrooms are being used to create Eco-friendly packaging and insulation materials.
More traditional Styrofoam packaging is made of polystyrene, an unsustainable petrochemical, and can take up to a million years to biodegrade naturally.
Ecovative Design, a biomaterials company, goal is to develop packaging materials that not only decompose faster and more naturally, but also give back to the ecosystem. They do this by utilizing mycelium, the microscopic root structure that allows mushrooms to grow on trees and spread throughout the forest floor.
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[@bruddahj3323]

this should get more views

[@ChannelofRK]

There should be more people doing this

[@Niksky2]

This whole process is so unsustainable! So much energy, so much human time and space.

[@kumarmithilesh1886]

They are not putting the impact, they are #Future 👌👍👍

[@jesscorbin5981]

Great idea for tea bags

[@EcoSnooki]

Very nice video....looking forward for these kind of videos which are related to environment and sustainability...

[@barbarahales4569]

Love this! What about 3D biological printing technology to help produce this wonderful product?

[@gcasper4280]

Incredible

[@edearthling9298]

thanks for doing this

[@sajahadi]

YAS

[@nirtwina]

this is amazing!

[@sajahadi]

NO

[@Kiyarose3999]

Great news, BUT the Elephant in the room is the single use plastic bags you keep the Mycelium in. The Molds are not too bad as they can be reused an almost infinite amount of times, perhaps that’s the way to go with the single use, is to store all your Mycelium in Plastic containers instead of bags?. But an eco solution to you using single use plastic need to be found asap, or you are still a part of the problem to a degree, but stil are!

[@mikeaskme3530]

@G. Dave3 i agree but can we also agree that this is a great start, and maybe they aren't using single use plastic, maybe they are using plant based plastic. What ever the case, at least this company is starting to use human based technology and bio-technology for a better world and to show you can make money off of it?

[@GEMINDIGO]

Biodegradable is not the same as compostable....Have they done any long term studies about how good this stuff actually is for the soil?

[@mikeaskme3530]

@Gem Indigo, true but this company does not use any chemicals, so it is completely biodegradable and compostable, it is great that you pointed the difference out though.

[@RachelleHuizinga]

lol all the plastic wraps in the background though

[@shameezhajwanie2674]

Can you put moist products in these

[@mikeaskme3530]

@Shameez Hajwanie yes it seems you can, i just went to their website.

[@sayan4169]

This shit is so motherfucking noice

[@consideringorthodoxy5495]

Lol, what if they find out that this mycelium isn’t good for environments that it isn’t native to and ends up killing a bunch of forests.

[@mikeaskme3530]

@Considering Orthodoxy, i dont think that is a issue because people travel and we travel long distance, so if we look at the earliest humans traveling, they have always taken the parent mycelium from the original location into different areas. mycelium is in the soil structure that does help mushrooms grow.

[@consideringorthodoxy5495]

@@mikeaskme3530 You are probably right. Its amazing how foreign these comments can feel after a year.