Walk into any grocery store and you will find aisle after aisle of food wrapped in a host of different plastics. Concern about chemicals and plastic in food packaging have been growing in recent years. A recent study reported that over a quarter of the 16,000 chemicals used to make…
They created a new, water- and oil-proof food packaging material made of mycelium from mushrooms and cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) from wood that easily decomposes once its purpose is finished.
Well its fungus so it will be eaten.
Respectfully, I don’t think thats their intent:
Eaten by microbes. The coating is fungus so it probably will decompose in compost or dump.
Yeah that’s what I meant. Guess we could eat it too but not much nutrition in it for us. 😄