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Insulation and Packaging Products Made With Mushrooms Roots
Recently the co-founders of Ecovative Design, who live by the cradle-to-cradle philosophy, have invented two revolutionary new products from mushroom roots, "Greensulate" and "Acorn".
These two products could be alternative products for energy conservation and waste reduction. "Acorn" is a compostable packaging material and "Greensulate" is an organic insulation.
To make "Acorn" and "Greensulate", the founders of Ecovative Design, Gavin McIntyre and Eben Bayer, use the roots" of mushrooms known as fungal mycelium. The fungal mycelium acts as resin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin.
The resin gives agricultural byproducts the ability to bond into "a rigid material" Because the mycelium is not allowed to grow long enough to produce mushrooms there is no risk of the production of spores and allergens.
