TED talk: Are mushrooms the new plastic?
TED.com 10.4.10
In July, Eben Bayer gave a speech at an Oxford TED conference detailing how his company turns agricultural waste into truly biodegradable packing material. How biodegradable? It's literally grown from a fungus.
Polystyrene (or styrofoam, as many know it) is commonly used to pack delicate hardware and breakables for shipping; When it degrades in nature, it releases carcinogens. If adopted for widespread use, Bayer's packing material could reduce the production and disposal of polystyrene immensely.
Then what happens to next year's top soil?
Posted by: Rozmarija Grauds | February 13, 2011 at 03:32 PM