Imagine a home with chairs, tables, desks and cabinets manufactured from biofabricated components. Yes it’s true, New York biomaterial company – Ecovative, has made a breakthrough research in biofabrication of mycelium-based material . They have turned their vision into reality ...
Swedish retail furniture firm IKEA is planning to opt eco-friendly mushroom packaging, to replace the use of polystyrene and non-biodegradable packaging materials that is complicated to recycle. According to Joanna Yarrow, head of sustainability for IKEA in UK, the flat-pack ...
Almost all the products we use at home end up in landfills at the end of their lifecycle, just because they are not biodegradable. Designer Danielle Trofe has taken it upon herself to create sustainable and socially responsible lighting designs, ...
Long ago, we talked about a certain designer who created furniture items from Mycelium, the vegetative part of mushrooms. Now the unique scope is notched up to yet another level with Ecovative ‘growing’ an entire house out of mushroom components! And by ...
According to experts, Mycelium is fire retardant, compostable and structurally hardy; thus making it perfect as a furniture material. In this regard, it is actually used as a furniture’s structural component by teacher and inventor extraordinaire Philip Ross. Oh, and did we tell ...
