Ikea, the Swedish home furnishings giant, uses 7,400 truckloads of expanded polystyrene foam a year to package its flatpacks of furniture. The difficult-to-recycle material often ends up in landfills, ...

GREEN ISLAND — The team at the newest business in the village’s industrial corridor are thinking completely outside of the box. In fact, they’re making that box out of fungus. Ecovative Design, which ...

Eben Bayer has spent the better part of 14 years proving out the power of the humble mushroom as the world’s truly functional food. As the chief executive and founder of Ecovative Design, Bayer has ...

Ecovative Design in Green Island has launched a new interior design product division that is making wall tiles and furniture out of its revolutionary mushroom materials. The company, which has a ...

GREEN ISLAND, N.Y.-In an SEC filing, Ecovative Design says investors put $4 million into its efforts to use mushroom-derived adhesives in place of plastic polymers to produce plywood, MDF and other ...

Ecovative Design is hoping to replace the world’s plastics with fungus–on everything from packaging to, yes, houses. Somewhere in Green Island, New York, there is a tiny house filled with mushroom ...

Ecovative Design, the Troy company that makes furniture and packaging products out of mushrooms, is getting a bump from a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruling that could bring it more ...

Founded in 2007, Ecovative Design, LLC is a materials science company developing a new class of home-compostable plastics based on mycelium, an organism akin to a living polymer. Ecovative’s ...

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