Toadstool footstools: Are organisms manufacturing’s future?
GREEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The sturdy stools and spongy cushions made at an upstate New York factory are formed with fungus.
Ecovative Design is a business staking its growth on mycelium, the thread-like “roots” of mushrooms. The mycelium grows around small pieces of stalks and stems to create a bound-together material that can be molded into soft packaging for glassware or pressed into the boards used for the footstools they recently began selling.