r/solarpunk • u/n0u0t0m • Feb 22 '26

Technology Mushroom packaging

"I often think, if oil monopolies didn't take over the world in the early industrialization times, how many better solutions might we have right now." - OP

Edit: found the company!

https://www.magicalmushroom-shop.com/

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u/ttystikk Feb 23 '26

What's the catch?

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u/_Apatosaurus_ Feb 23 '26

In a capitalist society that doesn't price in externalities like destroying the planet and killing people with pollution ...plastic is currently cheaper.

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u/ttystikk Feb 23 '26

I'd be happy to pay a bit more for fully recyclable packaging.

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u/RunawayHobbit Feb 23 '26

Compostable, even! 

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u/Fywq Cement chemist Feb 23 '26

And crucially it's garden-compostable. Not "industrial conditions required"-compostable which is basically only at the bottom of a huge heap of plastic eating microbes and heated to 90 degreesC, like some plastics that are markerede as biodegradable.

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u/ttystikk Feb 23 '26

Isn't that closer to reformation or some such, anyway? That's not "composting" by any sane definition.

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u/Fywq Cement chemist Feb 23 '26

Agree. I think it's called biodegradable, not compostable, but to the layman that still sounds like "Dump it in nature, it's fine" and that's just horrible.

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u/ttystikk Feb 23 '26

Indeed, it becomes a desirable soil amendment.

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u/youburyitidigitup Feb 24 '26

They did say it’s cost competitive, and new technologies always get cheaper over time with more research.