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It's coming! Our patents will be published soon as well

Hey! Thanks for the thoughtful questions 🙏🏼 1. This was my 3rd video on the concept but you’re right I could have posted it a bit earlier. Either way the Kickstarter still allows for late pledges. You can also follow our bigger launch later this year. 2. Correct, moisture like pee/poop are main activators of the dormant fungi 3. Yes, we use standard plastics found in diapers. No novel alternative materials. This makes the diaper perform better and proves the large scale ability of the fungi 4. Not currently in the road map but it’s a fantastic idea. I’ll mention it in our next R&D meeting

@@ImTero thank you for the reply! I greatly appreciate someone as responsive as you for these sorts of things, because I think this project is very exciting and I'd like to know how I can help scale it up! 1. I'm not quite sure how to sign up as a late pledge... Is there a website that you've created that can link me to those resources, along with any other questions I might have about the project? 2. I realize the moisture provided by waste material are the main activators, but how does that moisture permeate the spawn culture and get it to start propagating outside of the sealed packet? 3. Ahhh okay, so I'm guessing the fungus requires additional substrate to survive and eat the plastic? Or can the mycelium survive solely on plastics? (assumedly plastics with a high exposed-surface-area-to-weight ratio so that the mycelium can more quickly eat the plastic) 4. Thank you! I would love to be able to toss my failed 3D prints into my compost pile, but since PLA typically only composts in industrial composting facilities, we typically don't have the ability to fully absolve ourselves of this guilt, but we tend to be a very eco-conscious sort of folk... especially since 3D printing allows for shipping raw materials and then determining what they turn into later, thus lowering our carbon footprint! ;) I think the type of fungus you've cultivated has some great potential to make biodegradable plastics more guilt-free for a TON of people in the hobbyist 3D printing community. :) 5. BONUS QUESTION: Have you thought of 3D printing your shipping materials out of PLA that's had the fungus inoculated into the prints, so that you can say "when you've removed the contents of this package, toss them in your compost bin."? Even if it's not 3D printed, using mycelium as a rigid packing material has been a cool new trend I've been seeing that seems very applicable to your value proposition. :) Cheers from Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA! (and let me know if you want me to do any tests in a dry climate!) :D

Hey! You can support here for a bit longer www.kickstarter.com/projects/hirotechnologies/hiro-experience-plastic-eating-fungi-at-home And yes, fungi can survive solely on plastics, but just like humans they thrive on a bit more diverse "diet" Great idea on packaging as well! Ps. Love New Mexico <3

They are two different companies with two different teams. But no need to fund us. We got all we need to get to the market. And maybe after that we can earn your trust and business 🙏🏼

Yes. Absolutely on both comments!

They used to average a lot more before but not anymore. Maybe because of few videos I made that limited me at least in TikTok. But it’s weird

Just reminds me of the big plastic clean up over a year ago with that autmated robot thing. Everyone seemed to be super excited about it and on the surface sounded fantastic, but was ultimately a band aid on the massive wound. When selling a baby step as if it were a stride is not success and could be harmful in the public opinion, possibly diverting funds towards something that does help but is nowhere near as entertaining or flashy.

Don't get me wrong, I want to believe, but this is not the way.

Thanks for the feedback! Very understandable and all good questions. Many of which we have answers, and some not. We launched on Kickstarter as its a place where new projects come to life with community efforts. If we would be 100% done then we would just launch billion ton waste contracts all around the world. We already have 3rd party validation on some of the by-products (e.g. CO2 released from the polymers) and degradation (with FTIR, SEM, etc from couple top universities). Our patents will be published soon (which required this validation) and we're working on a 3rd party validated white paper. Stay tuned!

Coming soon!

Wonderful!

We’re working on that for future solution

@ImTero have you tested to see how fast plant based plastic breaks down? I was wondering if it's faster and better for the fun-guys.

Bioplastics like PLA def break down a bit faster, but many are afraid of them creating much more microplastics and their impact on farm land/food supply/water. HIRO is first focused on the harder to break down "regular" soft plastics as there are much more of them, but bioplastics are on the roadmap

Agree. Americans, despite their reputation, are very open minded. Many European countries are much more judgemental and even straight up racist, sadly. IMO this is partially also why US startups succeeds much more than Europeans

Multiple. We have found 34 that do but are focused just on the few top species for now at HIRO

@ I managed to breed “spawn” of Coprinellis micaceus and we’ve got plenty of diapers to remediate😁 Is this Coprineus among those 34 species, is it worth a try?

I can't confirm or deny, but always def worth trying ;)

You’ll have a lot of cool opportunities to make a big impact!

More space equals to more other stuff and consumption. But fair point purely from sq ft price

Fair point. It’s only 10-12% of the population. But Europe is still better even with public schools. For example in my area the schools are not free if you earn above X. And no daycare is free. So Europe for the win

this is also highly dependent on how much you earn. If you have a couple earning over the average salary ( which isn't a high salary; at € 3.333 a month), you won't get much help.

Yep, agree. So much that I wrote a book about this in 2018 called Santa Sold Shrooms :)

Love this ❤️

Yes adult diapers are made of similar/same materials :) and thank you for your support. As I write this we’re few thousand away from the goal :)

In brief, yes they are too lazy. And the numbers all show that. In addition, the energy & water needed to blast the poopy cloths is nothing to sneeze at. Plus the vinegar mess. But I digress. The point is that it’s a major problem and cloth diapers are not a solution-otherwise it would not be a growing problem.

@@ImTero ?? Don't get it. cloth diapers are like your undergarment. can be washed in the washing machine. Furthermore, you can give your used diapers to another person once your baby has grown up.

Thank you so much!!

How come? Did you watch the video?

Yes!!!

I think I got shadow banned few months ago. Maybe around my video on circumcision. Or at least that one banned me on TikTok and maybe here as well

Yeah share it pls

I hope so too! We’re few thousand away

I literally laughed out loud 😂❤️

This was entirely a feat progressed by science, the use of naturally occurring phenomena in the form of microorganisms, along with a whole lot of determination and perseverance.

@@Kdkdleeme I agree! Well for the most part: the work that they put into this is absolutely incredible, I will definitely be looking to buy for my little one; not to mention how much this may be able to help with our plastic problem! Seriously, a big thank you to the team. I just don’t believe that the world that we live in just appeared out of dumb luck, and that our ability to reason and logic appeared out of thin air. Seems to me there’s something behind all of this that brought the world, nature, and humans into being… I mean, these diapers didn’t just appear out of thin air, right? No there was is an amazing, ambitious group of people, that brought it into being. How silly would it be to think these diapers just *poof* appeared without cause, yet we think that of the world we live in…food for thought.

Thank you for the support on Kickstarter 🙏🏼

Thank you so much!!

Thank you for sharing this! Means a lot. And thank you for supporting the campaign 🙏🏼

Much appreciated!

Thank you 🙏🏼

How come?

Definitely agree with this

So you say that a lot of the time the net wage in the US is way higher. But statistically speaking that is just not true when comparing to the better off european countries. But yes US 1% or even 10% wages go crazy

If you want to compare Denmark to the US you would have to compare it to like just Massachusetts or Maryland which are similar in population. Those states both have larger economies than Denmark. They are also similar with relatively high taxes. You would compare the US to the European Union which are closer structurally as entities.

This was very well-stated. I would like to add something tangential; people compare the US to the EU as if they were competitors, which implies similar economic situations. This is not true. Europe was built from literal rubble and rocks after World War II destroyed almost all capital-based infrastructure. The US was the bigger of two world superpowers and had a near monopoly on the European reconstruction. Even with this massive advantage, far better geography, and far more natural resources, the US vs the EU is a reasonable comparison today. I think that highlights how ineffective the US is at the policy level relative to its peers.

Fair point that the range is even bigger with the wealthy as said in the video. But it’s also huge on minimum salaries. In Finland it’s like 1,800e/month and California about $5,500/month. So Nordic people definitely don’t earn more than Americans. And yes you get more for the taxes in Europe as explained in the video but many of those benefits are being cut/reduced as the economies have failed to grow

Well said

Yep true

I've lived in Switzerland as well as mentioned on the video. It's mostly nice!

Yes health care difference is like day and night. But France was/is very unsafe as well. And def there are guns. Charlie Hebdo attack was not an isolated incident. There’s major riots yearly.

This isn't quite right. US health care is a functional monopoly with infinitely inelastic demand, best stated as "pay this or suffer". Let's say you are hit by a car and need a hip replacement. In Spain, maybe that would cost $15k and be assisted by the government. In the US, they might calculate the optimal price as 120k. No amount of tax benefits will overcome that. And you would think, okay that's a special example because of the car accident. But then you multiply it by the entire spectrum of health care. Where I live now, if I call an ambulance, it has no cost. My ambulance company charged $2300 for a ride to the hospital. Etc etc. It's a huge net loss on the population. Nationalized health is a far better system.

Not mentioned was we in the US also pay into Social Security and Medicare as a percentage of each paycheck. We take home 55-65 percent of what we actually earn

@@Nightwalker86 How much healthcare costs in the US depends on who you work for. The "list prices" are farcical. Personally, I have excellent insurance through my employer so my cost for any given doctor visit is either $25 or $40. A hospital visit is $100. Drugs are $2-25 depending on the drug. With an absolute maximum out of pocket cost per year cap of $2000. So if I get hit by a car and need a hip replacement and rehab, it would cost me a maximum of $2000/yr. And as a rule, the better/higher paying job, the less it costs you. It's a stupid system, but enough people are insulated from it as I am that it will never change. It's better to be poor to middle-class in Europe, but better to be upper-middle-class to rich in the US. Very much by design.

@@michaelmorgan8311 It's a low percentage, and only up to a certain annual wage. - IIRC ~$168K currently, and if you live more than about 10 years into retirement you will likely get back more than you pay in.

@@Nightwalker86 Yeah that is what insurance is for. My point is we pay so much tax and still need privet health insurance if you want any non emergency treatment other wise you'll wait 3 years to get it sorted though the government. Just getting 100% privet insurance instead of insane taxes and privet insurance sounds alot cheaper to me.