Polystyrene is out and mushrooms are in. IKEA recently announced they will be moving away from the foam and are looking at a more sustainable option made from mushroom fibers. Designed by New York ...

Growing concerns about plastic pollution and environmental degradation have fueled demand for sustainable packaging solutions. Mushroom packaging, being biodegradable and compostable, aligns with ...

Mushroom® Packaging marks Plastic Free July with a behind-the-scenes look at their new 20,000 square foot production facility. Mushroom Packaging is made with only home compostable mycelium and plant ...

IKEA will soon start using more environmentally-friendly packaging in place of the polystyrene that is currently being used. The new packaging is made from mushrooms by Ecovative, a U.S.-based company ...

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 ...

GREEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Turns out that mushrooms – great in soups and salads – also make decent packaging material. Mushrooms are a key ingredient in the pale, soft blocks produced by the thousands in an ...

We've long been dependent on styrofoam for packaging, but that lightweight protective material is virtually impossible to decompose. So it makes sense that scientists are working on--or rather, ...

It's one thing to create bio-based resins from food crop feedstocks. It's another to produce them using sugar cane trash and other plant waste to avoid competing with human food and animal feed crops.