ecofriendly packaging using fungi

I think we've all seen the many styrofoam packing boxes that are used to stabilize products when shipping. Here's an ingenious new eco-friendly take on it using crop residues held together by fungal mycelium. Completely compostable when done!

score one for the fungi

http://www.mushroompackaging.com

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Thanks to Melanie for pointing this one out!

Bio371 tag cloud

A shout-out to the Mycology class - here's the tag cloud for this class

I thought it was interesting that the word plant comes up so much - this is probably indicative of how important the fungi are to plants both in good and bad ways.