Latest 'green' packing material? Mushrooms; Packing foam engineered from mushrooms and agricultural waste
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 13:35
in Earth & Climate
A new packing material that grows itself is now appearing in shipped products across the country. The composite of inedible agricultural waste and mushroom roots is called Mycobond, and its manufacture requires just one eighth the energy and one tenth the carbon dioxide of traditional foam packing material.