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We Need More Sustainable Packaging, Like, Yesterday

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Mushrooms Is a Really Interesting Alternative to Styrofoam

Mycelium based packaging. has been around for a little bit since about the mid 2000s. They have found that they can use it as an alternative to styrofoam and even other plastics is for like cushioning things. And what's cool is you can grow fungi sustainably on like agricultural refuse, right? That's being composted. You could grow your fungi into exactly the shape that you want. The only thing that I saw that would be problematic was scalability and then lead time to produce.

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