[readingnews]

Not sure if they were the first, or whatever, but this really seems like a breakthrough technology / methodology. How many cardboard boxes do we use a day? The mind boggles.

Totally cool stuff.

[adzm]

This seems more like a replacement for Styrofoam rather than cardboard boxes, though it could certainly be used in places we already use cardboard inserts. But probably still need a cardboard box on the outside. Thankfully we can grow those too!!

[embedding-shape]

> This seems more like a replacement for Styrofoam rather than cardboard boxes

It seems rigid though, more akin to cardboard than soft styrofoam. I don't see anything about how dampening it is, but from the pictures I also assumed it was more like cardboard than styrofoam. Maybe the color is deceiving me though.

[elil17]

I don't think this is better for the environment than cardboard (if anything it is probably worse as a direct replacement for cardboard because cardboard already has a robust recycling supplychain). Rather, it is a replacement for plastic foam.

[rithdmc]

Dell have been using mycelium packaging for a while now - 2014 maybe? created in the US. Very interested to see this space go.

[ndespres]

Dell (and IKEA, and others) source from Ecovative who have been working on this for a while: https://ecovative.com/

[zdragnar]

https://magicalmushroom.com/mushroom-packaging

Under Features, it lists polystyrene products as what it replaces, not cardboard.

[Tarq0n]

Cardboard is mostly renewable, it's the applications where we combine it with plastic where alternatives are needed.

[ekjhgkejhgk]

This isn't different from cardboard. This is made from mushrooms, cardboard is made from trees. The real problem is plastics.