{"id":132525,"date":"2021-12-16T18:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T02:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/can-mushrooms-replace-everything-concrete-plastic-meat-leather"},"modified":"2021-12-16T18:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T02:23:58","slug":"can-mushrooms-replace-everything-concrete-plastic-meat-leather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/can-mushrooms-replace-everything-concrete-plastic-meat-leather","title":{"rendered":"Can Mushrooms replace EVERYTHING? | Concrete, Plastic, Meat, Leather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k_vYK-w1Rig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One promising solution to plastic pollution is mycelium or mushroom packaging. It is made of 2 ingredients: mushrooms and hemp. Mycelium is the underground network of very durable, thread-like filaments called hyphae. It is mixed with agricultural waste like wood chips, oat hulls, cotton burrs or hemp hurds.<\/p>\n<p>Link to my Patreon page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Belinda_Carr\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Belinda_Carr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters.<br \/> 0:00 Introduction.<br \/> 1:00 How its made.<br \/> 2:43 Products.<br \/> 4:32 Advantages.<br \/> 5:30 Disadvantages.<br \/> 6:19 Myths.<br \/> 7:12 Conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>One of the largest mushroom packaging manufacturers in the world is Ecovative Design, a New York based biotech company founded in 2006. They sent me these samples of their product. Their manufacturing process is pretty straight forward.<\/p>\n<p>Their designers create a 3D CAD model of custom packaging.<br \/> A CNC machine routes the design into MDF.<br \/> Plastic trays are thermoformed around the MDF pieces.<br \/> The tray is filled with their proprietary hemp hurd and mycelium blend.<br \/> It is allowed to grow for 4 days in a controlled environment with regulated temperatures, airflow, CO2 and humidity levels.<br \/> It is popped out of tray and allowed to continue growing for 2 more days to create a velvety layer of overgrowth.<br \/> The packaging is then heat treated to dry out, kill spores and stop the growth process.<\/p>\n<p>This material can last for 30 years in dry, temperature controlled indoor environments. It is also 100% biodegradable and a nutrient for soils and plants. When broken down into 1 cubic centimeter pieces, it will compost in just 45 days. In the ocean, it will compost in 180 days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/can-mushrooms-replace-everything-concrete-plastic-meat-leather\">Continue reading \u201cCan Mushrooms replace EVERYTHING? | Concrete, Plastic, Meat, Leather\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One promising solution to plastic pollution is mycelium or mushroom packaging. It is made of 2 ingredients: mushrooms and hemp. Mycelium is the underground network of very durable, thread-like filaments called hyphae. It is mixed with agricultural waste like wood chips, oat hulls, cotton burrs or hemp hurds. Link to my Patreon page: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Belinda_Carr. Chapters. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}