Ecovative Will Supply Ford With Compostable Car Components Made From Mushrooms
Ecovative's Mycelium-and-Ag-Waste Foam Ecovative via TreehuggerEcovative Design has won PopSci's Best Of What's New award AND our Invention Award New York-based Ecovative Design is no stranger to accolades from PopSci, having garnered an Invention Award and a Best of What's New mention in recent years, not to mention a shout-out in our latest homage to bio-inspired design. So allow us to bestow yet more praise upon the eco-friendly foam maker for their latest endeavor: making automobile components out of mushrooms. Ecovative's chief innovation is a foam made of mycelia (mushroom roots) and agricultural wastes like seed husks and other throwaway organics that can replace styrofoam and polystyrenes in a variety of applications, like packaging materials and home insulation. Now the young company is teaming with Ford to replace the petroleum based foams and insulators in dashboards, bumpers, and door panels to make at least part of the automobile compostable. Ford, to its...