Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?

[tabatha]

Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment.
About Eben Bayer

Eben Bayer is co-inventor of MycoBond, an organic (really -- it's based on mycelium, a living, growing organism) adhesive that turns agriwaste into a foam-like material for packaging and insulation.

http://www.ted.com/talks/eben_bayer_are_mushrooms_the_new_plastic.html

This is really awesome !!!!

[Webster Green]

1. What a great idea.

Amazing! :thumbsup:

[Warpy]

2. It certainly makes better sense than making bubble wrap out of OIL

Fungi are the new chicken, too, Quorn products being a great analog without the cruelty of factory farming and that melamine aftertaste.

[tabatha]

3. I like to keep up with foods, etc

but did not know about Quorn. Thanks!