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ny company uses mushrooms to create biodegradable packaging

wed, 22 jun 2011 09:00:35 +0000

americans take plastic packaging material in everyday products for granted – but a burgeoning company based in central new york state doesn’t. in “packaging: a mushrooming business,” energynow! special correspondent josh zepps looks at how ecovative design is replacing materials made from polystyrene and other synthetics with environmentally friendly packaging made from mushrooms and agricultural byproducts.

founded by a pair of engineers, the company is working to make not only a replacement for styrofoam “peanuts” but a variety of other materials from home insulation to kitchen counters. the company has found some high-profile customers, making parts for ford and packaging for dell computers.

josh also takes us into the woods to see why mushrooms could be nature’s perfect packing, and to ecovative’s labs to see how a few cottonseed husks and some mushroom cells can grow into something useful and beneficial for the environment.

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build a home with ecovative design’s seed husk blocks

sat, 15 jan 2011 12:30:26 +0000

my wife mimi and i are building a green energy efficient home in northern austin county, texas.

we were planning to use forms for the house walls supplied by therma steel, agriboard or insulated concrete forms (icf) available from several sources. we would like to use your material instead of styrofoam blocks used by icf manufacturers. can you supply us with these forms? we will be building late next spring or early next summer but would be willing to wait if it would take you longer to supply the blocks.

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ecocradle growth

wed, 10 nov 2010 18:04:28 +0000

this time-lapse video condenses 14 days of ecocradle growth into 14 seconds.

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growing materials using mushroom technology to replace styrofoam

wed, 10 nov 2010 11:28:35 +0000

mycobond: growing the future of sustainable materials

sat, 06 nov 2010 11:28:51 +0000

ecovative is a bio-tech startup creating biological composites which displace conventional foams and plastics, such as expanded polystyrene. mycobond, our patent pending technology, uses a growing organism to transform low value agricultural byproducts, into strong biological composites. these composites have applications in multiple markets, including commercial insulation, structural cores, and protective packaging. ecovatives long term goal is to become the leader in sustainable materials, developing grown replacements for foams, plastic, and wood like products. in the near-term ecovative is focussing its comercilization efforts on the protective packaging market, where there is a dire need for a product to replace the huge amounts of eps (expanded polystyrene) which is used every year in shipping.

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