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I posted something like (if not exactly like) this over a year ago, has it happened?
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Great way to spread Fungi spores around the world. Here folks is the demise of the human population… And here I thought mosquitos would do it!
Reply As I recall there was something about steam processing it in the moulding process, maybe you are right Paul and we should stick to the current polystyrene option. j/k
Reply Wow Jason I never thought you would agree with styrofoam! Must be some kind of revelation!
That’s a weird symbol at the end of your message j/k?
Anyhow glad you are part of the styrofoam revolution!
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j/k is joke Paul Selebay as for the fungi spores most are ubiquitous and the more “good spores” that get around the less chance of a “bad spore” outbreak. If there were any viable tissue in the packing material if would only serve to improve the composting down the line.
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Fungi Perfecti: http://www.fungi.com/ has been doing this for a decade and is located in Olympia Washington and is the brainchild of Paul Stamets.
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perfect. so now the packaging that my bookshelf comes in can fall apart as fast as the bookshelf itself. perfect.
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Emily Maxfield, this is cool, Laine Major is this bad? Brandon HaskettHaskett?
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No I can be right next to someone cooking with truffle oil just can’t have a single fry made in it.
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Fantastic idea…EXCEPT introducing exotic fungi into a foreign environment may not be in anyone’s best interests. Remember the cane toad.
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True, but I hope that IKEA is sensitive enough to simply use fungus that is indigenous to a given locale. Why pay to transport “exotic fungi?” That doesn’t seem like a wise business/profit model.
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Paging…HP, Epson and other ink and toner producers…u can pack ur products with these
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Any business that ships their products need to look at using materials like this for their packaging. When you think of the millions of tons of packaging that gets tossed every day this innovation and others like it become a no Brainerd.
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So awesome! Thank you IKEA!
Hopinh other businesses will follow IKEA’s example…
Thank you Ikea. Let’s reduce plastics, styrofoam and other packaging that accumulates in the environment. Keep on innovating.
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You don’t have to eat it to have an allergic reaction. Breathing in particles can be enough.
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Brilliant! Hope it catches on. Why have people laughed about this? The mind boggles. The world’s in a complete mess and god only knows we need some businesses to help sort it out.
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IKEA as they do will smash suppliers prices . Locking them into a submissive deal, so customers can have packaging that they use for the journey home and then toss it .
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Not a bad idea, but it might be a good idea to actually sort their useless delivery service and non existant customer service first
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Poisonous/waste mushrooms only I hope. We run into real problems when we start using food for other things (like a gasoline additive for example)– the unintended consequence is that food prices go up, and the people that are most affected are the poor…
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This story has been around quite a while now, anybody actually seen it in IKEA?
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