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.
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. 😄