Mushrooms: Next big thing in environmentally-friendly packaging, construction?
I was part of a team experimenting with mushroom packaging about 3 years ago. While we had quite good results material-wise, we couldn’t really make the total environmental equation work on smaller scales. Growing the mycelium really fast and efficiently requires quite a bit of energy input (heating, humidity controls, airflow…) and you need to source quite a few ingredients for the growth medium. I’d be curious what the total ecological impact is if all of those inputs are factored in when doing it on a large scale (like Ecovative).