Styrofoam That Will Protect Your Television and Garden!

Styrofoam, the thing we get in every package fill up 25% of our landfills and contains 1.5 liters of gas in every cubic feet. Now scientists invented an alternative that is fully recyclable and doesn’t use earth resource. Ecocradle the alternative of Styrofoam can be made with any useless product from agriculture which can be anything from corn husks in Chine to oat hulls in the USA or soybeans husks in Spain. The husks are first cleaned, cooked and cooled, When they are finished they are pasteurized and then mixed with mycelium which s the root system of mushrooms. The result is that they put it in the shape they want and are left for 5 days to let the materials to react. After that it turns in a material similar to Styrofoam. It is water resistant, insulating and able to resists physical and acoustical impacts. The best part is that it can decomposes complety and give good soil for the ground. This is really and we can use it for packaging because it can fully decompose.

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By Meera Dolasia on 10/28/2010