IKEA- using mushrooms to create packaging that will decompose in your garden!
IKEA- using mushrooms to create packaging that will decompose in your garden! Leave it up to Ikea to figure out how to rethink what we know about packaging. Known for thinking outside the box, the furniture retailer is said to be looking at using mycelium as an “eco-friendly replacement for polystyrene” and in an effort to reduce waste and increase recycling. Ikea is looking to use mycelium packaging because many products that typically use polystyrene can’t easily be recycled (also, polystyrene takes thousands of years to decompose). The idea is simple: buy something in this new protective packaging and then throw it...
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