Wednesday, November 30, 2022

How to replace plastic with avocados, algae, mushrooms

2:14 bioplastics require less fossil fuels to make them, they contain fewer toxic chemicals, and they decompose faster than regular plastics

4:09 Bagasse, the byproduct from sugar cane, amounts to 100 million tons a year in India alone, where is pressed into disposable metal trays

9:17 Lifepack in Colombia makes paper plates from pineapple crowns

17:40 mycocomposite by ecovative is made from mushroom myceliae. 18:53 the final material isa little heavier than styrofoam, but velvety soft to the touch

21:52 harvested algae blooms are blended with plastic to make pellets - 22:47 has to be mixed with plastic or the final foam wouldn't be springy enough, so it's 10-30% algae

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