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Billie Eilish, The Lumineers to Greenify Gigs with Plastic-Free Mycelium Earplugs (www.greenqueen.com.hk)
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GOB is debuting plastic-free earplugs made from Ecovative's Forager mycelium foam, and has teamed up with Billie Eilish and The Lumineers.

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hopefully this helps spur the growth of a mycelium industry to replace plastics.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds great, but when plastics first came around as an industry, we didn't know how bad it was.

There's no long term knowledge about fungus stuff once processed into these new forms. It should be better, but there may be issues down the road.

Not saying changing isn't good, it very much is, and it's necessary. Just taking this opportunity to point towards a long human history of great ideas that solve one problem, but cause others.

[–] solo 1 points 1 month ago

There's no long term knowledge about fungus stuff once processed into these new forms.

Just to clarify that the fungus stuff is just mycelium. It is a totally natural product that is in this case foam-like. It is not processed, just dried at specific temperatures.

As they mention in this article:

these earplugs are made from Forager’s mycelium foam – and nothing else. This means they can break down in weeks to months,

“GOB’s earplugs are USDA Certified Biobased and entirely made from mycelium, a natural material that breaks down as easily as the produce you eat,”