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By allowing the mycelium to grow around clean agricultural waste, such as maize stalks or husks, “Mushroom Packaging” is produced. The waste is bound together by the fungal fibres over the course of a few days to form a solid shape.
To stop it from spreading further, it is then dried. This mycelium packaging is a good substitute for some plastics because it can be composted at home, is chemical-free, and even resists water.
The Global Mycelium-based packaging market accounted for $XX Billion in 2022 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2023 to 2030.
The concept of a circular economy prevails via the gradual reduction in use of finite resources in a world that mandates the employment of sustainable techniques for manufacturing more environmentally friendly products. Mycelium is a group of filamentous fibres that any fungus’s hyphae project out from.
Mycelium is a biomaterial that can grow rapidly on agricultural waste and is regenerative in nature. In order to create biocomposite materials that are both strong and biodegradable, thin fibres that are generated from the fungus can bind the matrix material.
These bio composite materials may be easily moulded into a variety of shapes that are excellent for the production of shock-resistant packaging materials. They can also be utilised as insulation or construction materials.The developed substance offers a sustainable alternative to synthetic materials like expanded polystyrene because it is made from affordable raw ingredients. (EPS).
The mycelia-based bio composite material has a strong potential of becoming the material of choice for packaging applications due to these characteristics. In order to produce mycelium-based biocomposite materials that regenerate from agro-industrial waste, this chapter provides an overview of the state-of-the-art technologies currently available and the obstacles that lie ahead.
Although expanded polystyrene and other synthetic polymer materials are being replaced by biodegradable composites based on fungal mycelium in the packaging industry, the chapter also focuses on a number of other applications.
