Fungus: The Plastic of the Future

[@TheEskimosPantry]

Fungus, easy to mold.

[@iLoveTurtlesHaha]

I think I'll chill with you at parties. You seem like a fungi. XD

[@hcn6708]

Ahhhhh,I see what you did there.

[@sebastiankohleroberg2980]

I know it's a joke but that a cool property, It would actually be more resistant to mold compared to normal isolation materials in houses.

[@avandurion]

well I wouldn't be so sure about it....Insulation(I assume that's what you referred to) materials in general as used today would be probably more resistant to mold for the same reasons they take so much time to decompose.

[@avandurion]

lol good one;p

[@thehalberdier4774]

Whenever I read about this new fungal manufacturing technology, I can help but feel a wonderful sense of hope growing in my chest. This is a revolutionary new technology, without a doubt. It could easily replace a lot of materials we currently use. This is utterly incredible! This is already getting used to create packaging and simple furniture, but I can easily see it being used for minor construction material since it's fire and water resistant, so it can easily be used as a replacement for drywall and plywood. It can replace the plastic and polymer materials in some vehicles if given a very thin reinforcing coating. Like the researchers said, the possibilities are absolutely endless! We would be doing a disservice to the next generation if this wasn't invested, researched, and mass produced. Get the botanists, get the chemists, get the engineers; they've got a new field to study and play with!

[@BestKCL]

Absolutely. I just wonder where all the hype has gone..

[@Atheism-And-Normative-Ethics]

Same. Been looking up diy kits.... It could honestly help prototype stuff if you're an industrial designer

[@Atheism-And-Normative-Ethics]

Curious how it carves once cured.

[@Ghorum]

Anybody else just want a 20 minute video of that guy talking about his fungus packaging?

[@marilamar821]

Ghorum yes!!!

[@charlesbannon6909]

I want a tour with it 😍

[@BestKCL]

He looks like a time traveler from the 70's and I love it

[@imqqmi]

Yeah, he's a fun guy!

[@KarlSnarks]

I'd like a 20 minute video with the fungal furniture 3d-printer guy. Those designs look cool af.

[@yakigesher-zion7289]

It’s 2021, almost 5 years since this and I’m still waiting for the mushroom plastic

[@Fenthule]

the hardest part is getting the public onboard, and getting politicians to fund it. That company Ecovative towards the end, with the packaging materials? they've expanded A LOT since this video was shot. they're in the process of making a facility that will make 1 million lbs of this fungas based packaging yearly. AMAZON has said they're switching their packaging to fungal forms. it's taking off, slowly.

[@deanthephilosopher9486]

Don’t worry bro, I got you

[@KarlSnarks]

@@Fenthule Also, can it compete with cheap plastics in prices? Because that's often one of the most important factors especially for B2B .

[@KarlSnarks]

I do know that fungal tiles are being used in building now, even though the infrastructure to compete isn't entirely there yet.

[@lash393]

2023 and i still waiting

[@MercSLRFan]

I really hope this picks up momentum.

[@ferencszabo3504]

If the industrial monopolyst are asked the RIP another brilliant idea.

[@BestKCL]

It's so sad I haven't heard more about it since the time of this video

[@kashishahmad5818]

Still waiting..

[@bugz552]

Probaby not, the same reason hemp based materials never picked up momentum yet we can use it for literally anything... biofuel, plastic, textiles, building materials... unless big oil says otherwise were not changing anytime soon. It says alot when you get subsidised by yhe government for using fossil fuels but if you want to use clean, renuable energy sources you have to pay a premium... surley this should be the other way around to encourage growth into a much cleaner enrgy soruce... but no... the world is ran on greed.

[@no_alias_for_me]

Here we are 5 years later and it didn't gain momentum at all.

[@lulluedge9457]

Maybe this goddamned world might turn out okay in 100 years after all

[@SNOWSOS]

Lullu Edge I'm sure people have been saying that shit for centuries now.

[@Maxander2001]

SNOW SOS Imminent mass extinction seem like a potential solution to the circular issues.

[@SNOWSOS]

Maxander2001 Imminent is relative.

[@Maxander2001]

SNOW SOS True, I should have said within 10-50 years. :)

[@johnbenton4488]

Lullu Edge Too right! (I wonder what they'll find to fight over when there is no oil.

[@WessCNY]

My best friend is made of that stuff. He's a real fungi.

[@pixienay2497]

I love this comment lmao

[@mnbuni8065]

bless you

[@Bluemilk92]

More like fun _lie_ ! Pff, friends... As if something that outlandish could exist. ಠ_ಥ

[@llamaliammm]

*Deadpan*: Hahaha i see what you've done there

[@yourhouseholdcat44]

Where Does He Live? Does It Have Mushroom For Living?

[@GamezGames19]

In the near future we will be travelling in solar powered fungus aircraft

[@royaltyler1]

FUCK YEAH

[@royaltyler1]

MY DICK

[@FraktalPriest]

Like the ship Moya In the show Farscape!

[@insaen6]

with a heat shield made from wallnutshells!! [[-;

[@suddencucumber5994]

that was 3d printed and controlled by a quantum computer

[@claytonlynch6288]

As a mycophile and packaging enthusiast I found this video to be really exciting, however I wish they had shown more strength tests

[@Motherboard]

We talk to the scientists and designers hoping to create a viable, sustainable alternative to plastic from and unlikely source: fungus.

[@k35magnum]

***** There was little to no mention of it's cost. Whole video talks about the potential that fungi has to replace existing uses of plastic. However, time frame and acceptance for wide spread use hinge entirely on it's ability to compete in a world where the people in positions to effect the kind of change needed here will always use the most cost effective solution available to them.. Cool concept, but what's the point?

[@jblazingame]

+Rook3v Ecovative is doing a very good job. They produce a packaging equivalent competitive with styrofoam. The big savings for them comes from the low energy aspect. Unlike refining oil using fractional distillation and then making a foam that way, they use cheap agricultural waste as the filler and the mycelium binds it all together in a 5 day process that just requires a dark room. But you're right; the other forms haven't been market tested. Don't despair though, the bio plastics field is nascent and fungus isn't the only answer. There will be more materials developed. It is however a good start.

[@k35magnum]

jblazingame Cool, thanks for the info'. Would be interesting to see the dollar to dollar comparison. If the cost is more or less the same, that isn't likely to be enough from a business perspective. It's awesome seeing all these new technologies coming up, but the shift from established production requires a large front cost that needs to be more than worth it.

[@k35magnum]

jblazingame That said, even if it's not immediately viable. It's as you said - a good start.

[@SaebriSelect]

***** could use some shadows on the closed captions. when watching on lower qualities, if there are no shadows on the white text, it becomes very hard to read. Besides thats everything is great as always.

[@ZachHixsonTutorials]

I get what he said about things like packaging that gets thrown away, but as far as replacing plastics completely its hard. one of the most useful qualities of plastic is that it doesn't rust or breakdown that easy, which is a double edged sword

[@johnbenton4488]

Zach Hixson I would imagine that the next logical step scientists can take is a non-oil-based plastic that can be used for insulation of current-bearing wire. Otherwise the human race will be history.

[@johnbenton4488]

Without oil there will be no plastic insulation for electricity. Without Electricity there will be no power. Without power there will be no humanity. So someone'll have to come up with a new low-conductivity or better still zero conductivity material for electrical switches etc. before our one source of plastics (oil) is exhausted, don't you think?

[@johnbenton4488]

Precisely, and so many people complain about the price of coal etc., now!

[@johnbenton4488]

I couldn't agree more on the recycling issue. The milk industry has been reusing glass bottles for as long as I can remember (and that's quite a long time.) Beer bottles used to have a 3d deposit on them that was repaid on return to the owner. Our local council allows us to recycle just about any sort of plastic, but they will not accept some types of carton or film. Apparently no-one on the council gives a second thought to what thy o, except that it saves them money on tips (£20/ton). They don't care whether we recycle or not as long as they save money! But, as we say in these parts, they'll come to their cake and milk! As you point out, everything comes down to money!

[@johnbenton4488]

Yes. Glass is probably the most recyclable of all the products, but at the moment (in UK anyway) there is no financial incentive to do it. Most glass bottles are recycled as domestic insulation, at enormous costs, both in financial and environmental terms. As you say, the milk industry has been recycling its bottles for decades, but wine and beer bottles are scrapped after one use. I can see you point in plastics, but even recycling them once cuts demand in half! But then we get back to the old 'finance' argument, where it costs less to make new than it does to recycle. Round our way we see dozens of skip-wagons loaded with 'scrap' steel, almost all of which is recycled in China. Can you imagine the cost of taking scrap halfway round the world? Recycling steel is hardly rocket science, but it is economically better to ship scrap to China, than recycling the stuff in UK! As for oil-based products, the sooner we find economically viable substitutes the better, and in this I place all my faith in science. (The UK government is constantly reducing the amount of money it gives for scientific research!)

[@Nemesis_T_Type]

1. Fungus becomes a new material for packaging. 2. Companies create fast growing fungus. 3. Fungus unintentionally infects other living creatures. 4. The Last of Us apocalypse scenario begins.

[@mcblahflooper94]

1. That's not how mycology works 2. The spreading mycelium is heated and dried, thereby killing the growth process 3. Even the most aggressive commercial strains can't infect living organisms 4. That's not how mycology works

[@libertarianatheist6274]

Actually some fungi do turn ants into 'zombies'. They could possibly evolve to infect other organisms too, but it's a stretch. We already have rabies anyways.

[@gabbar51ngh]

Libertarian Atheist Dry it up and paint it.

[@mochipickles]

hahahaha so accurate

[@zyibesixdouze4863]

@@libertarianatheist6274 insects have extremely simple brains.

[@justrandom7214]

So many people complaining about costs... But in the end it depends on with what costs you`re calculate... The micro plastic clouds in our seas and the levels of plastic products inside the feeding chain of the oceans animals will have a cost, ultimativly. In theory economics is about all "costs". If interested I recommend starting with the topic of "the tragic of the commons" which is at the core of the problem and one of the more accepted theory in economics ;) Plus, remember, without oil we might finally get rid of the Saudis and the middle east! Without oil money they will disappear back into obscurity. So a great plus there.

[@Daisymayspeaks]

andi sixtimesseven that whole thing you wrote stared fine but it just ended on a pretty racist note, did you mean like we’ll stop depending on them and in turn it will push them into being more modern or did you just mean the literal of what you wrote

[@Xez1919]

The problem is that the plastic industry is huge and has a direct control on politicians. So it will be hard to set up a law that will prevent plastics or that will make plastics relatively more unattractive. So it's up to the consumers, however most consumers don't care about the environment that much, they care more about the 2% difference in price.

[@deenrqqwe6794]

Don’t celebrate just yet. The Saudis have so much money that can afford to diversify their economy and therefore be a permanent thorn in humanity

[@35mmonkey]

Plastic as we know it currently was expensive at the start too

[@thec-m]

Once there becomes a strong enough demand for this material, the cost will go down. The equipment and facilities to produce it will be more widely available and it will be more commonplace. I’m sure plastics would have been a lot more costly to produce once upon a time.

[@MistaSpookie]

"I collect spores, molds and fungus." - Egon Spengler, Ph.D.

[@glauberamos]

it's been 7 years, where are the fungus packaging stuff?

[@Ottee2]

The kingdom of the fungi is incredible.They are amazing chemists for one thing; capable of producing extremely complicated molecules. They will share their secrets with us, little by little, over time.

[@fumomofumosarum5893]

The mushroom kingdom? yes. mario knows best!

[@Appachoppa112]

fumomo fumosarum i think he was on the funny mushrooms

[@ferencszabo3504]

Especially psylocibin, it just cant shut up!

[@thinginground5179]

@@ferencszabo3504 It never stops talking right!!

[@LowestofheDead]

I'm studying biotech and every time someone brings up mushrooms our current professor will look either extremely exited or pained and go "listen.. mushrooms are neither plants nor animals nor something in between. They elude all attempts to categorize them. We do not know what they are. Some are immortal. Some produce live saving substances. Some are so closely related to humans that eating them may cause an allergic reaction against your own body. I cannot teach you about the mushrooms"

[@zyygis]

There's lots of biodegradable plastics like hemp plastic. Problem is cost of biodegradable plastics.

[@zyygis]

***** Thats basically what i said in greater detail. My point is ,fungus plastic will not be mass produced due to long growth.

[@zyygis]

***** Now it takes 5 days inside the mold for fungus to grow, even if we triple the growth process its still more then 1 day, meanwhile most of other types of plastic can leave mold in matter of minutes.

[@Thomasdebeste]

+zyygis But if you take the time of the process the oil has to go through to be useable for plastic + transport time etc this would be more time efficient

[@jblazingame]

+gotsda there is a difference between biodegradable and compostable. The cellulose process is expensive and uses toxic chemicals. Only the best bio plastics will stand a chance against oil based plastic; when they can provide a competitive price.

[@jblazingame]

+zyygis like Thomas said, oil gets refined, fungus grows. Refining is more expensive than growing. Fungus seems to be the answer for foam right now, but I think other plastics will come into play to replace plastics like polypropylene, PETE, HDPE, LDPE, etc. Take a look at PLA (poly-lactic acid) if you want a good example of a market bioplastic.

[@MrPavelvideo]

Hello from 2021, 6 years passed. Nothing happened in term of replication of such amazing technology... it is a shame.

[@version191]

the music at the end is great

[@msDanielp369]

LOL

[@Kavukamari]

I wonder if we can engineer a fungus that grows big enough to grow a whole house, and when your house looks how you want it, you just set it on fire to "bake" it hard

[@AzTechGFX]

Start investing your money in these stocks people.

[@johnbenton4488]

Srib Sound advice, but only for the long-term investor.

[@jblazingame]

+John Benton Plus they aren't publicly traded.

[@johnbenton4488]

So you can't buy shares on the stock market? Big deal.

[@dominicklembo6329]

+Srib I'd rather start a business in hemp....

[@johnbenton4488]

Go for it then! It's the only way you'll ever get rich!

[@debrabrooks6138]

Wow so many ideas come to mind in various uses...home insulation, or building blocks, or in building a whole home! Homeless shelters, having lived in the desert in Cali I can see how making structures for shade, gardening, and small shelters for animals and people that this could be quite a problem solver! ahh wish my words could convey all my thoughts, I am just a ideas person, Oh great lol now my mind will be working on these ideas on night and then some! Thanks for sharing!

[@VapoMan1]

thanks for subtitles, but please give them a black border for readability over the video

[@jjc5475]

aw poor fellow. spreek je geen nederlands? :(

[@SooSneeky]

VapoMan Or you could your those two spherical things in your head?

[@SlashZooka]

+john pardon The funny thing is, I'm from germany and can understand the most things because the languages are very similar to each other but then I don't understand everything and then I've to read the text below but then it's gone and (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻. :D

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

Drop shadow is my favorite border.

[@95georgey]

I did my MSc thesis under Han. What a guy. Amazing human and excellent scientist!

[@devoywilliams5549]

legalize hemp can also replace plastic,concrete, cotton, insulation, carpet, it does everything don't see why its still illegal.

[@slowfire2]

Hemp are not illegal for industrial use, like ropes and cloth. Only the get you high kind is illegal.

[@NeroHonoku]

its fully legal now

[@modestoca25]

bamboo too

[@RC15O5]

Trump legalized Hemp.

[@melvinserrano2824]

I think because the #DCswamp profits from oil.

[@satriaamiluhur622]

I'm always impressed by people who arent native english speaker but still try to answer the interview in english. It just shows their learning and dedicating nature.

[@penelopelandon]

The richest companies in the world thrive off of plastic and pollution. They don't want this. We need grassroots organizations in many areas to make this worldwide

[@AzariahSandman]

No, rich companies with smart leadership will adopt such technology and find a way to profit from it. Companies that withhold progress are doomed to fail.

[@Xires012]

This is truly the future. I think of sci-fi movies, television shows, video games, etc. where there exist living spaceships, bio-armor, living computers, grown furniture & domiciles, and more. These first steps are awesome and I can't wait for this to become used throughout the world.

[@wg9601]

I thought they were going to go over the rate of decay vs plastics and different products effects on the landfill issues we face today. But ok, no hard numbers so, at least do something like the protocols recyclable plastics have now were some plastic bottles can be turned into textiles for clothing, drapes, etc.. This tech looks like in pre-pre alpha.

[@PickledPoacher]

Wut Gman can't we just burn it as bio fuel? use a carbon filter or HHH to reclaim the gases for further energy sustainability?

[@Cineenvenordquist]

Wut Gman That's ridiculous, people have been repurposing fermentation byproducts for millenia. You just haven't licensed the way to make things from it lately; not as many IP markets as semiconductors yet. They managed not to say 'rot' the whole video...

[@sockmonkey6666]

The great thing is, anything you grow can be made in one piece, so not only is it strong, you don't have to do any machining or shaping afterwards. To make it last longer, I imagine just adding a waterproof coating or rubbing it with linseed oil would do.

[@BM-zv4xz]

They forgot to say how long it takes for fungus-based plastics to fully decompose...

[@SailorXOdesSa]

Same thoughts I got.

[@boulder6578]

like Yoda you speak

[@upsidedowntree9431]

@@boulder6578 I'm literally just curious, how else would you say it?

[@DvDick]

Considering it's fully organic (wood and fungi) it must be also biodegradable, so it should decompose pretty quickly.

[@mechm1nd]

@@DvDick you'll need another fungus who will feed on junk material. Just comply to containment procedures and everything will be fine.

[@penelopelandon]

Finally, it's been years now. Nigh on two decades

[@flowingmind3]

that's how mushrooms use humans to reproduce

[@DarkAngelEU]

These promises of freedom are merely attempts to take our control!

[@davidbodor1762]

You could argue that chickens use us to reproduce too the same way. We feed them, give them shelter, etc...the truth is, we use them more than they use us, in the end both chickens and mushrooms end up dead for the products we use them for.

[@msDanielp369]

hahahaha

[@thinginground5179]

@@DarkAngelEU Yeah but we love fungi............

[@thinginground5179]

They're smart bastards are fungi.. They got me about a year ago.... Let me tell you how it all began... I invested my time into searching for the psilocybin experience, I picked them from the ground. Later in the night, I ate the mushrooms and underwent a "transcendent experience". -- This experience was no transcendent experience, it was a brainwashing scheme to convince me I was experiencing something profound.--the fungus was using a brainwashing technique to get me hooked on it's entire species. After my divine spark, I began studying mycology. And NOW THEY WANT ME TO GROW THEM AND STUFF. THEY'VE GOT MEEE

[@GreenBlindness]

After just getting into the University of Nottingham to study Plant Science, I am particularly looking forward to discussing and learning about this :)

[@potion789456]

I'm concerned as to whether such a new material will be beneficial to the environment considering the energy used to produce the packaging or products. Like there's the drying process which probably requires heat and to make the actual form (breaking down of material into small parts and mixing) how much energy does it consume in the process? It seems to me the process is way more energy intensive than using plastic, though I can see the problem they are trying to rectify here is in the waste system, not so much on energy. But this is also what's scary about the new materials, cos the used energy eventually takes the form of CO2 and other greenhouse gases which are way less apparent and visible, people don't actually find the urgency to deal with it until eventually the environment gets equally shitty. It's basically one form of pollution vs another. Unless the energy consumed in the process of creating the material is equivalent or less than that of styrofoam or other plastics they're replacing, it may just be as pollutive. It's the same problem faced with replacing plastic bags with reusable bags - you need to reuse the bag more 7000 times for it to be more energy efficient than plastic bags. That said, I feel that it's still important that R&D continues in these area, but just as important is that consumers and companies don't just see an end product as it is but also consider the process in which they were made.

[@KiRaUsAGiMomo]

Don't worry.. Nuclear fission scientists aspire to create a contained star on Earth to fuel our economies' power. If it doesn't blow up on the face of the Earth by 2030ish, it's fiiiiiiiiiiiine--

[@Phrenotopia]

4:50 Why on earth did they translate "grondstof", which means "basic materials" into "landfill waste"!? Who translated this?

[@MacFrolic]

Nice look into this :) I'm wondering what the cost difference between plastic packaging and fungi packaging is.

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

*Wonderful solution to resolve the issue* of plastic packaging that keeps piling up every day on our planet. We combine carton and recycled paper with that, and we might reduce the plastic packaging by 99%.

[@jerrysdad7282]

This made me so happy

[@LOVESWEETREVENGE]

Who the hell would give this a thumbs down?? This is groundbreakimg research and could save the world in so many ways

[@waltermitchel6266]

"Mario crying in the corner of the room"

[@timriley5122]

They probably and the problem almost 7 years has past and still no advance all the while it's still ok for everybody that manufacturers unrecyclable plastic still keep making more. I really thought that the the EU would of banned it all by now.

[@Broockle]

Fun and awesome stuff, but I gotta ask. How long does this plastic take to decompose? If I threw it in my yard will it still be there in a month? xD Or how long would it survive in the ocean. Especially the hard plastic type material.

[@maszlagma]

Thousands of years in a dark environment but plastics do photo degrade if light reaches them in a shorter amount of time (couple of decades) but that is not chemical degradation, it will still be plastic, it will not become carbon and carbon dioxide for example, it basically just becomes very tiny particles that can get into water, and will eventually get eaten by fish, animals and in turn by us too. The effects of plastics on the human body as a chemical is not fully understood.

[@Broockle]

maszlagma ........I'm talking about the material they make from this fungus stuff. I really hope it decomposes faster than the plastics we mostly use today.

[@Broockle]

A survivor so... how long will it stay in my yard? Who will eat it first? snails?

[@Broockle]

A survivor It's gonna be among the first things I'll do when I drink my first beverage out of a fungi cup. I'd throw it in my yard and check on it every other day. I wanna see it disappear xD

[@PacoOtis]

Wow! Thanks for this video. There sure are some very smart and creative thinkers and developers demonstrated here. Wonderful! You give us hope for the future!

[@Phurfee]

Outro song?

[@RedHair651]

Phurfee Jingle Punks or Audio Network

[@lighttheoryllc4337]

This video really "grows" my interest into new innovation

[@VadimBolshakov]

6 years later. Still not the future... MB there is a reason why?

[@MrAlkylation]

Production is far slower than conventional plastic and we are so many people that we need very fast production

[@amivioletin2125]

It does not mention the decomposition rate and biodegradability of these products. I'd be interested to know more.

[@mjw789234]

This is probably how the zombie outbreak in the last of us happened

[@Checkedbox]

you read my mind xD

[@martialkintu2035]

M Dub How would this even cause a zombie outbreak?

[@DantesMuayThai]

fungus will take over your nervous system and control you. there is one existing fungus that infects ants and controls them. Make research. Might happen that this one they use, mutate and will attack human body.

[@martialkintu2035]

Daniel Li CEO What are the names of these fungi species you're mentioning.

[@TheCervelas]

martial kintu : some species in the cordyceps genus.

[@911bobiscool]

I like it how you package your environmental packaging in plastic packaging...

[@DoomGod05]

what was that song at the end of this video

[@benjaminwilson8032]

+Austin .davis was wondering the same thing

[@calebmcneil185]

+Austin .davis i thinks its call orange juice(really really trippin) by Dtour

[@thomas4315]

2 year ago , show you can have the right product but that don’t guarantee it going to sell. Much more needed

[@ValorousDefined]

Lol you can make hemp into plastic. Plastic isn't going to be replaced anytime soon purely because pretty much every government has their interests invested in the oil industry. They wouldn't replace one of the biggest oil consumers...plastic.

[@jjc5475]

not in the netherlands. we don't have oil reserves. so our government would be very happy with a alternative.

[@InsanoBinLooney]

+camouflaged unicorn Shell gas is owned by the dutch royals.

[@jjc5475]

InsanoBinLooney actualy. thats a myth, look it up on wikipedia. but your right that shell is dutch.

[@jjc5475]

but we have military strategic advantages if we could use less oil. so from a political viewpoint we would be happy with a alternative

[@Longboard914]

you have a very enlightening and we'll educated point of view ! bravo 👋👋

[@happyhours1961]

There's also that company who makes fungi surfboards. It's pretty neat how this stuff works.

[@MrGW2fanboy]

Fungi shoes? As if my feet didn't already smell bad enough

[@bublla__7913]

yea just imagine that smell, yellow sweat speckled with green mold discolorations on your feet

[@natureswrath7665]

@@bublla__7913 I don't think it's that type of fungus.

[@michelangelogaspari2904]

You can suck your big toes every morning having good time and a cheaper breakfast

[@fCauneau]

Awesome... it much more impressive to my eyes than any 'IoT' gadgets, even the arrival of the PC or smartphones... This really contains a breakthrough for our civilization.

[@Barcasaur]

Look at all that plastic doing its job helping them try to replace it. The horror!

[@IEleMenTIx]

lol

[@L454RU5]

They're trying to replace disposable plastic though!

[@liil4993]

Reminds me of Europe as a whole.

[@tabryis]

I honestly don't know why someone would dislike this video

[@Cabry]

Update from the future: Nobody has ever heard of this. Lol.

[@InvalidUser_]

Companies have. Its already being used in packaging you just don't notice it.

[@sileniu]

6 years later and we dont see it in furniture , neither replacing the plastics .... sad/bad.

[@InvalidUser_]

Fungi has started to be implemented in packaging because of how cheap and readily available it is. It takes time but eventually when the price is low enough companies will grab it up.

[@ickerish]

people can say all they like about my generation. they have no idea how amazing we are.

[@panzerfaust5046]

you got a point

[@ForcesNL]

+ickerish In general, hardly. But the innovations are remarkable yes. We also have a bright future ahead of us, based on experimental stuff we see today. Big issue though, money. Although, without money, (this instant) we would have a very, very big issue. Probably a huge massacre and dictatorships to the max.

[@ickerish]

ForcesNL the problems we're dealing with today are due in its entirely to the generation prior to mine. greed/monopolization, corruption, bribery, misleading the public, lies, expensive wars we cant afford, you name it. we are being handed a basket full of rubbish and hatred and it is our duty to fix the planet, people included. in general, not hardly, we are stepping up to the plate of hell and will absolutely have a bright future. the money is there, just not in the right hands and the dictatorships are already there and its called old money entitlement. people think that we are poor in america when we are one of the richest nations in the world. we have the largest GDP of any country, we are the number one producer of oil and natural gas, we are second in manufacturing in the world, we are one of the biggest trading nations, and we have the largest stock exchange. we have all the potential we need to stay in the forefront of the world but just like we raced to the moon, we need to race to save the planet. its the next world science race and all we need from the old folks is to just realize this.

[@ForcesNL]

ickerish Well said, couldn't have said it any better. I hope more and more "old money influent peeps" "will turn" aswell, and teach the -planet saving peeps at hearth instead of what their peeps have learned them, and teach to the new gen.

[@martialkintu2035]

ickerish You didn't do a shit!

[@jjc5475]

yeey nederland. nooit was een vice documentaire zo makkelijk te volgen.. :)

[@benjaminhamer6552]

I wonder why this information has been suppressed for so long? Thank God for the mushroom consciousness and its selfless nature.

[@SubhanManafzade]

They use a plastic mold to create fungi mold to replace the plastic mold. Still there is huge work. Beautiful thing to see

[@nathanwood5481]

I wonder if anyone would want fungus surgery

[@crazytactics3603]

Well, its been "a few years"... Were's my fungus products?!

[@seanholt892]

i wish them luck but do they have the money to fight off the oil giants

[@ForcesNL]

+sean holt No one does. And yes each individual government has it's need for fuel. But fortunately, we also have ecofriends in the opposition that demand more strict rules about polution. It's a slow proces my friend, very slow indeed.

[@cdgonepotatoes4219]

+sean holt they'll die as the oil supplies will, and it's certain it will happen now as it's predicted, oil powered cars in the future will be less and less conveniente overtime, powerful carbon batteries will be made, making possible for many more vehicles to be powered by that, solar panels hopefully will hopefully be more efficient and more companies will invest on that technology. As oil ends, other thing will be made, hopefully, at the time so I can see them with my own eyes (holy shit I got way too cheesy. Come on dude, you're 16, where the fuck is your childishness?)

[@Braxtonhawkins]

Song at the end?

[@JOAOPENICHE]

go fungus

[@mvskspodcast3395]

Good on you Eben Bayer! Intelligent human being right there.

[@HENRIVICTORIOUS1]

ELI5: cant we launch all our shit at the sun to dispose of it?

[@Ricky32908]

Jesus Christ the OG imagine the cost of 1 lb of material to get off the earth "$10,000" hopefully in the future it would lower, but nonone would do it, theres no investment payback

[@HackingDutchman]

Jesus Christ the OG We better keep it, we might can reuse it later on. That's what happening now in old electronic dumping sites of Europe in India and such countries. We now are paying those people a little bit to get that dumped electronic waste back and bring it to Germany where they have a big plant where they proces all that waste and recycle the gold, silver platinum and much more. Back in the days we paid those countries a little bit to dump it there. Now we make big money out of it. So we better don't get rid of it.

[@mjw789234]

Jesus Christ the OG That would be extremely expensive unless we build a space elevator.

[@HENRIVICTORIOUS1]

Thanks guys for the answers! Interesting - much to think about..

[@MountainmadeofSteam]

+M Dubzem not only extremely expensive, but we'd potentially have the biggest dirty nuclear bomb ever, so yeah a space elevator would definitely be our best choice

[@magnuswootton6181]

that fungus composite is gold!!!

[@about2snap]

Dear Motherboard, Vice, and Vox, You would get 12,000 views/millisecond if you utilized voice actors with accents to voice over a foreign dialect. Many people like watching this kind of content while doing something else ie. games, chores, work. We don't like having to look away from our thing to read subtitles, especially on a dry subject (no matter how good the intention of the subject matter). We all know it sounds stupid, but if you want these stories to get as much exposure as possible, then consider how to keep the interest of every audience. Sincerely, People who multitask, People who can't multitask, people who sit for work right out of view of the screen, people who can't read, people who refuse to read, people with conditions that impede the fluidity of the reading process, and people with ADHD.

[@philbot01]

+About2Snap I actually love hearing speak their languages though, I'd be so annoyed if they dubbed it over with some terrible american accent.

[@DaPownzor]

This was made in the Netherlands, where almost all movies, tv series, documentaries, etc., are subbed instead of dubbed. I, a Dutchman myself, and many others here absolutely hate dubs because it often doesn't look quite right and because we are not used to it.

[@oyuyuy]

I don't consider 6 people many, but that't just me...

[@Tinyflower1]

Fun fact, you don't multitask, you rapid serial task, as your brain is incapable of multitasking. Furthermore, I have a mental condition that could be mistaken with ADHD, and yet I find subtitles easier, since it is a lot more easy to lose my train of thought when I just listen or get distracted compared to when I actually have to pay attention. It also helps understanding foreign languages more, and most people do speak more than one language and aren't so weirdly opposed to learning new languages as some english speaking people are. I speak english and german, and fun fact I could understand most of the video without reading, since a lot of european languages are similar.

[@julius8631]

People actually learn something from hearing other languages. Why do you think the Netherlands is the best English speaking country in Europe apart from the UK? Because we both hear English and Dutch everyday. Why do think a big part of Germany doesn't speak English, because everything has a voiceover in German.

[@TheLivingHeiromartyr]

This is just like Wraithbone from WH40K! Love it!

[@annoloki]

Decades? But we need this *now*!!

[@justinbennett9998]

I'll have one cubensis throne please.

[@duncanrschuler]

What’s tht song in the end tho

[@bwolff7364]

10:06 Wait...aren't those all in plastic, non resealable containers?

[@dragoncurveenthusiast]

10:05 Just as he's talking about how we shouldn't use plastic as a packaging material, the camera shows the new packaging material packaged in plastic bags... (start at 9:51 to hear the whole sentence)

[@davidmorris8319]

That's so awesome!! I hope this techology becomes popular and will one day replace plastic. The only thing i'm asking myself is if it's possible to produce see-through foil like that since many groceries are wrapped in foil so you can see them when shopping and i don't think companies would want to change that

[@792247]

I can see it being used for packaging materials, but I'm skeptical about the other stuff. First, you can tell there's a lot of variability in the process, so a manufacturer would need to spend much more time doing quality control. Second, the process is very slow. I mean, 1-3 weeks to make that little stool thing? There's an automated factory somewhere in the world spitting things out like that in a fraction of a second. I would be surprised if the cost of manufacturing something complicated like they suggested (at scale) would be competitive at all. That being said, I hope I'm wrong.

[@SacredDaturaa]

Presumably people will eventually find a better way of doing it? For example if you just had solid blocks of pregrown fungus and then just whittled down the block. That's something scaleable.

[@blurycode]

10:05 They use plastic bags for their composite right?

[@Phelan666]

**Morrowind theme intensifies**

[@nikhat6884]

Man .. awesome

[@FerrilEwok]

I feel a few of these inventors may have been eating the wrong fungi.... however they've all created something wonderful so I feel hopeful

[@MrOkulski]

Can these be used as seeding tray for the garden - then plant the tray and seeds at the same time? Start in the house and then plant tray and all directing into the soil outside.

[@detonationlurks]

Stuff like this gives me hope and excitement for the future instead of dread

[@pabloramos1022]

I'd be nice if research papers were liste in the description, so those looking to deep further into it could do so.

[@ebinjayan]

It's been 3 years....

[@lanrebloom3809]

Truly uplifting videos

[@77oregano77]

Would have liked him to ask about the current cost effectiveness of this versus plastic and what it might be in 10 years when this process potentially takes off.

[@HazMat728]

All these innovators working on creating a more sustainable future should be the real celebrities of the world.

[@happyhours1961]

I do have a question about the switch between plastics and fungi. Can fungi be used as a sterile environment? One of the reasons why plastic is so great is that it can be used to protect things like medical tools, for example, needles. They need to be sterile. On that same note, needles are supposed to be one-use which makes the plastics they were stored in destined for the landfill. If fungi can't be used like this, seeing as it's a very natural environment, it might not be quite as useful as plastic.

[@Rokkiteer]

Another upside to this is that fungus grows from wood pulp, so when demand for trees grows, so will the supply. More forests

[@roba165]

What I see here is a enormous business opportunity!

[@phaces5913]

does anbody know which 3D software he was using in 5:20?

[@144Donn]

This is quite amazing and exciting! Now, I do understand that some bacteria or fungus can eat away at plastic..because we have a world filled with that with which we must deal.

[@doonray]

"We're heading towards a moldy future" Best thing I'v heard all day! :)

[@neocuriositi]

The question isn't if a substitute can be made. It's if the impending used plastics can be eliminated or utilized

[@alsdjfknbo]

Hemp can be turned into a type of plastic that is stronger than plastic and decomposes when exposed to dirt

[@CaptainGlasgow]

I am going to say two words that will change the game forever, Peanut Shells.