'Mushrooms engineered into eco-friendly packing material'.

Coming to a shoe---or car bumper---near you!
Mycelium is OURcelium.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...eered-into-eco-friendly-packing-material.html

 

This looks like a great idea. I hope that it really takes off. I hate having to throw out all of the Styrofoam packaging that surrounds so many products; it's not recyclable in Burnaby.

 

Could be a problem if the packaging gets damp while still in use, it would just collapse.

 

Michael, the same could be said of the paper & corrugated cardboard which form a large part of traditional packaging. I suspect that most of the items being shipped would not survive a wetting either.

Can I feed it to my chickens? Can I eat it myself? My kids think that the Mueslix I eat for brekkies tastes like cardboard as it is.

I already put a lot of shredded paper & cardboard into my compost. I think I will just start a garden out back of my local Walmart - save moving all this packaging stuff around the countryside...Hmm? there's a thought...

 

Michael, I'm thinking mainly about electronic products that would be damaged by moisture and often are surrounded by styrofoam for protection. That would be a perfect application for this type of product.