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, ...

As Ecovative Design centers its focus on producing and selling furniture and packaging material, the Green Island, New York company that uses mushroom technology to make biodegradable products is ...

Ecovative Design's new interior design division is feeding an entire new generation of eco-friendly designers in New York state with its mushroom-based building material. Advertisement Article ...

GREEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Turns out that mushrooms — great in soups and salads — also make decent packaging material. Mushrooms are a key ingredient in the pale, soft blocks produced by the thousands in an ...

GREEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The sturdy stools and spongy cushions made at an upstate New York factory are formed with fungus. Ecovative Design is a business staking its growth on mycelium, the threadlike ...

GREEN ISLAND, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ecovative Design LLC, the world's leading mycelium technology company, today announced the initial closing of a Series E round of over $30 million. $15 million of ...

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 ...

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 ...

You might already DIY, but do you GIY? New York-based Ecovative Design is already known for creating packaging and even buildings out of mushroom root material, and now they are bringing that ability ...

Want to inspire envy at your local makerspace, while also showing off your eco-friendly credentials? No problem: New York-based company Ecovative Design is here to help. If you want an introduction to ...

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 ...

Answering the call for an eco-friendly solution to environmentally damaging packing materials, Ecovative Design has created a new niche in the green market by using mushroom-based material as part of ...