Is Mycelium Fungus the Plastic of the Future?
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Published 2021-06-22
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All Comments (21)
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So what do think? Any uses I missed? Would you want to live in a mycelium insulated home? And thanks to Curiosity Stream ... use the code "Undecided" to get CuriosityStream for less than $15 a year! curiositystream.com/Undecided. Also, be sure to check out The Future of Solid State Wind Energy - No More Blades: https://youtu.be/nNp21zTeCDc?list=PLnTSM-ORSgi4dFnLD9622FK77atWtQVv7
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Even if it ONLY replaces plastics in packaging that’ll be an enormous win.
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Is this another one of those miracle implements that is waved in our faces, EVERYONE says YES, and then we never see it again?
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I remember proposing this concept to a friend of mine, they replied “Yeah but I don’t really want to eat off of dead mushrooms roots.” As if decomposed plant juice refined into plastic is better,
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I would love to see some big companies adopt this as internal packaging for electronics like TVs and white goods. The polystyrene used for those is the definition of single use - moulded to one product, just to get it to the consumer safely. I would love to be able to put that on my compost heap when I recycle the box it came in.
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I would love to one day look at "trash" on the beach, see a mycelium package on the water and know that it won't take long before it's not there anymore.
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Imagine my motorcycle plastics being made out of mycelium The mushvroom 🍄
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I also just saw somewhere that many mushrooms can in fact digest plastics and still be edible.. But maybe we could use both mixed in with the wood chips to help start breaking down the over flowing plastics that don't get recycled and use it with this plastic fungus method. We are not only helping break down unused plastic, but also making a new product with waste plastics.. MUSHROOMS WHERE THE ANSWER ALL Along!
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There are also mushrooms that can not only break plastic down into organic matter, they can survive solely on plastic in anaerobic conditions, making them ideal to use in oxygen poor landfills.
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20 years from now, Pixar releases a movie about mushrooms having feelings
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Lets hope finding a mushroom island isn't hard
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I love when ppl use bricks as an example of things that you can do with garbage. Its like if someone lost all his members and someone tell him: "well now you can be a door holder"
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everyone being forced to use the ecovative design design patents, if they want to persue the styrofoam technology, already seems like a massive issue if you want it to ever be competitive with plastic. the issue I'm noticing is that everyone wants to feel good about eco products, but not concern themselves with the issues of the industry's own creation
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Looks like HermitCraft’s Mycelium Resistance had a plan all along.
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So the forms for the mycelium to grow in, are they called mold molds? ..... or mould moulds in the UK?
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You can't say it's plant based if it is made out of mushroom, when then it's fungie based
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That is amazing. I wanted to use mycelium in an environmental architecture competition in my school but I didn’t really understand it thank you for clarifying things in simple way.
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As with most new solutions, the real question is "is it competitive at scale?" Doesn't matter how good the product is, if potential customers can't access it due to supply shortfalls.
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*falls over with new shoes "Are you ok?" "Yeah, I'm tripping on mushrooms!" Hahahaha..... please don't hurt me.
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How do they ensure the complete removal of any spores? As someone on immunosuppressants, I've been specifically told to stay clear of fungus in particular if it could still be in a living state, or even if the fungus itself is dead, if there might be any spores still alive.
