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  • >> EVERY CUBIC INCH OF THE SOIL

  • IS TEAMING WITH MILLIONS OF

  • INCHES OF

  • MYCILIAN.

  • >> A WALK THROUGH THE WOODS IN

  • GREEN ISLAND NEW YORK IS

  • PLEASURE.

  • WHEN YOU ARE WITH TWO BARELY

  • 30-YEAR-OLD GENIUSES LIKE GAVIN

  • MCINTYRE AND EVAN BAIR, YOU ARE

  • SURE TO STUMBLE ON SOMETHING

  • SCIENTIFICALLY COMPLEX.

  • >> YOU SEE THE

  • MYCILION GROWING

  • INTO THE LOG.

  • >> SOMEHOW IT INVOLVES A

  • MUSHROOM.

  • >> WE ARE HERE AT INCOE BAITIVE

  • DESIGN, I'M A COFOUNDER AND

  • SCIENTIST AT THIS BIOMATERIAL

  • COMPANY, WHERE WE TAKE LOCAL

  • FARM WASTE, MIXING IT WITH

  • TISSUE FROM MUSHROOMS AND

  • GROWING REPLACEMENTS FOR PLASTIC

  • USED IN PROTECTIVE PACKAGING.

  • >> WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? WHAT IS

  • THE PROBLEM WITH POLYSTERENE.

  • >> THERE'S PACKAGING, BUILDING

  • CONSTRUCTIVE,

  • TENSES OF MILLIONS

  • OF

  • DOLLARS WORTH USED.

  • THEY ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE

  • EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE.

  • >> WE HAVE ALL SEEN THIS.

  • EVERY BIG PRODUCT IS PACKAGED IN

  • THIS MATERIAL.

  • THESE ARE MADE FROM

  • UNSUSTAINABLE

  • PETROCHEMICALS AND

  • CAN TAKE UP TO A HUNDRED YEARS -

  • MAYBE MORE - TO BIODEGRADE AND

  • LEAVE THE OTHER.

  • WE USE AGRICULTURAL WASTE, LIKE

  • CORN HUSKS AS A RESIN.

  • WE COMBINE THEM, WE GROW IT IN A

  • MOULD TO MAKE A SHAPE FROM

  • EVERYTHING FROM PACKAGING.

  • >> A MUSHROOM GROWING OUT OF A

  • TREE IS COMPRISE THE BY

  • MYCILIAN.

  • IF YOU LOOK

  • YOU YOU FIND FIBRES

  • THAT ARE GROWING THROUGH THE

  • SOIL OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND IN

  • TREES.

  • THAT'S GLUING THE MUSHROOMS ON

  • TO THE SIDE OF THE TREE OR THE

  • FOREST FLOOR.

  • MUSHROOMS.

  • >> WE NEVER GROW MUSHROOMS, WE

  • KEEP THE MYCILIAN IN A

  • VEGETATIVE STAGE.

  • THE CONCEPT WAS WHEN I SAW

  • MYSILIAN GROWING THROUGH WOOD

  • SHIPS,

  • KEEPING THEM TOGETHER.

  • USING WASTE DIDN'T HAPPEN UNTIL

  • I TEAMED UP WITH GAVIN.

  • >> IT TAKES SEVEN DAYS FOR A

  • PRODUCT TO BE GROWN.

  • WE ARE ABOUT TO SHOW YOU HOW IT

  • WORKS IN SECONDS.

  • >> WHAT IS THIS.

  • >> THE WASTE IS CLEANED, LIGHT

  • BEFORE ADDING THE MYCEL.

  • >> UM.

  • IT'S IPP CUBATED AND IT BECOMES

  • A SOLID WHITE MASS.

  • NEXT IT GOES THROUGH A TROMELL,

  • A MACHINE THAT GRIND THE WASTE.

  • >> THIS IS REMINDING ME OF

  • WILLIE WONGA AND THE CHOCOLATE

  • FACTORY AND

  • I'M AFRAID I'LL BE

  • SUCKED UP.

  • >> THIS IS MULCHED AND STACKED

  • INTO MOULDS.

  • THE MYCELIAN DOES WHAT IT DOES -

  • GROSS.

  • ALL THAT IS LEFT IS TO PAYING IT

  • AT A LOW TEMPERATURE OF 200 TO

  • GROWTH.

  • >> FRESHLY BASED FUNK US.

  • SO IT CAN BE SOLD TO

  • CORPORATIONS LIKE DELL COMPUTERS

  • AND OTHER FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES.

  • >> HERE IS WHAT IS COOL.

  • I CAN TAKE THE MATERIAL, BURY IT

  • IN MY YARD AND WITHIN A COUPLE

  • OF MONTHS IT WILL BIODEGRADE AND

  • ADD NUTRIENTS TO THE SAIL.

  • >> ECHO VEIL IS ABOUT TO

  • MANUFACTURE PLASTIC-FREE

  • PRODUCTS.

  • THE POSSIBILITYIES GO BEHIND

  • PROTECTIVE PACKAGING, AND THEY

  • ARE DEVELOPING HOME INSULATION.

  • >> DO YOU GUYS FEEL YOU ARE

  • HAVING AN IMPACT ON HUMANITY?

  • >> WE SEE IT LOOKING FORWARD

  • SENTURIES, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE

  • THE ENVIRONMENT IS AVAILABLE FOR

  • OUR GRANDCHILDREN AND OUR

  • GRANDCHILDREN'S CHILDREN.

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  • NATURAL RESOURCES

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