Ecovative Design company supplies auto parts of durable foam to Ford. This durable foam consists of mushrooms, agricultural waste and organic matter. It is a foam that will urgently replace styrofoam and polystyrene.
Ford automaker currently uses a different type of foam used in dashboards, bumpers and door panels. This foam is petroleum based and therefore bad for the environment. In every Ford car there is on average 15 kilos of environmentally unfriendly foam. This is what the manufacturer wants to change!
The durable foam from Ecovative is not too expensive, it is fire resistant and waterproof. Do you have car in the scrap yard? Remove the foam off the car and plug it into the ground. After one month, the foam will be completely demolished.
There are some bumps on the road about the future. Will the foam from Ecovative pass safety testing? And will the mushrooms grow fast enough to successfully satisey large quantities of durable foam to produce? With a grant of four million U.S. dollars Ecovative hopes its production process and perhaps find more uses for foam based on spawn.
