Ecovative Design Of Green Island, N.Y.

Very cool - two undergrads from RPI are developing a company that makes packaging material using fractions of the energy of regular packaging materials. One secret ingredient is mushroom roots.

Live Science: Mushrooms Turned into Green Packaging

The composite material, called Mycobond™, requires just one-eighth the energy to produce and generates one-tenth the carbon dioxide of traditional foam packing material.


Now Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute undergraduates Gavin McIntyre and Eben Bayer are developing a new, less energy-intensive method to sterilize the agricultural waste, killing spores that could otherwise compete with the mushrooms.