Let mushrooms eat plastic garbage? Maybe you can also try mushroom packaging

【Chinese Packaging Network News】 Plastics can be seen everywhere in our lives: plastic bottles, plastic boxes, plastic toys ... because it is difficult to degrade naturally, whether it is "buried" or "cremation", once it is handled improperly, it may create environmental problems. Pollution. Recycling and recycling are undoubtedly the best choices. However, some bold environmentalists recently suggested that it is better to try “mushroom funeral”.

Let the mushrooms eat plastic and let people eat it

Several designers from Austria and a team of Dutch microbiologists have teamed up to develop a system that can consume plastics and eat plastic garbage with mushrooms. Then people make it delicious and eat it! This idea puts on a big meal country, should there be a market, right?

Put the disinfected plastic into a ball-shaped Petri dish. After diluting the diluted mycelium, the fungus will magically slowly consume the plastic and eventually grow into a fluffy mushroom! And this kind of mushroom is completely edible, even with different flavors of recipes. It looks like it's very good to eat...

Do not plastic, and later use mushrooms for packaging

If you can't accept mushrooms grown from plastic waste, try Mushroom Packaging.

In order to replace the hard-to-degrade plastic material, the American company Ecovative invented the fiber-rich mycelium.

By allowing hyphae to grow in agricultural waste such as purified wheat straw and glutinous rice, the wheat straw and gluten are fixed into the shape of the mold. Finally, the hyphae are grown by drying and the packaging material can be put into use. This natural packaging material called Mushroom Packaging can be completely degraded in a matter of weeks, and it is far less harmful to the natural environment than plastic.

Cool! In fact, both of these innovations are still in the exploration and model phase. In the face of plastic waste pollution, people are still thinking and trying many other means.

Veolia joined the "New Plastics Economy" plan last year. The program, initiated by the Allen MacArthur Foundation for a period of three years, aims to establish a viable plastic recycling system. Based on the principle of circular economy, it brings together leading companies, cities, philanthropists, policy makers, experts, scholars, students, non-governmental organizations and citizens to jointly reflect on and design the subsequent use of plastics and plastic packaging. As a core partner, Veolia joined the Advisory Committee in 2016 to help develop work programs, select projects and pilot projects.

Do you also want to participate in fighting plastic waste pollution? Then, in life, reduce the use of plastic packaging, avoid using disposable plastic products, recycle as much as possible or find professional departments to recycle plastic packaging!