Nature’s polymer for packaging, insulation, and more

Mushrooms and other fungi, having been only recently domesticated in comparison to plants and animals, have the potential to revolutionize many facets of our modern lives. From increasing culinary acceptance, advances in health and medicine, to helping heal the earth using various mycorestoration strategies such as mycoforestry, mycoremediation, and mycopesticides, as well as increasing crop viability and yields in a time of changing and uncertain climate, we have barely scratched the surface of the fungal kingdom’s potential. A company in New York, the brainchild of two college students, is helping build the foundation of this potential and is poised to revolutionize the world of plastics.

Styrofoam, or extruded polystyrene, was patented by Dow Chemical in 1944 and became ubiquitous in packaging, insulation, flotation, construction, and more, and has become a scourge of the environment and of our finite resources. Not only does Styrofoam (and other plastics) take tremendous amounts of fossil fuels and energy to produce but the EPA estimates that Styrofoam comprises 25% of the waste in our landfills by volume.

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