Eco-Friendly Company Introduces Nature’s Packing Peanuts

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This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

In a world where plastics and synthetic foams can outlive us in landfills and have detrimental impacts on the environment, there are ways to limit such effects using something that's growing all around us.

Fungal mycelium — the root-like filaments that mushrooms spread into soil to gather nutrients as part of nature’s recycling system — provide a naturally biodegradable solution, suggest engineers Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre, the founders of Ecovative Design.

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这幕后的文章中提供了与国家科学基金会合作，在LiveScience。在世界塑料和合成泡沫可以活得比我们在垃圾填埋场和对环境的不利影响，也有办法限制使用在我们身边越来越多的东西是这样的效果。 - 真菌菌丝像根丝，扩散到土壤收集大自然的回收系统的一部分营养的蘑菇 - 提供一个自然生物降解的解决方案，建议工程师埃拜耳和Gavin麦金太尔，Ecovative设计的创始人。