Friday Night Movie | TED Talk: Are Mushrooms the New Plastic?

By Jane Engelsiepen, January 14, 2011

Eben Bayer details how his company turns agricultural waste into fully biodegradable packing material, literally grown from a fungus. Bayer’s packing material could reduce the production and disposal of polystyrene.

  • Garrett

    Hmm, so we can turn mushrooms into plastic, PLUS there’s a mushroom which was found last year, in South America, that eats plastic. Mushrooms definitely are a thing of beauty! :)