Who doesn't love 'shrooms? Their uses are seemingly endless. In fact, mushrooms may be the next big wave to crash upon the shores of the packaging industry.
My friend Starre Vartan of Eco-Chick.com, HuffPo Green, and Inhabitat says,
Mushrooms are amazing. Not only do they tasty-up pizza, pasta, soup and salads; not only are edible ’shrooms pretty much calorie-free and full of minerals (which ones depend on the variety) and immune-supporting compounds; not only can they engender transcendental trips, but they soak up chemicals from toxic environments (including BPA), don’t need pesticides or herbicides to grow, and many are gorgeous (or at least interesting-looking) to boot! And now we can add another really impressive thing that ’shrooms can do for us: packaging!
Starre and I were on a press trip together last month where we had the chance to here some of Ford's plans for integrating 'shroom (and hemp)-based materials into their vehicles in the not-so-near future.
Here is Starre's video from the interchange with Ford:
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