Inside the lab growing leather from mushrooms | Hard Reset by Freethink
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2021
- Inside the lab growing leather from mushrooms | Matthew L. Scullin, CEO of MycoWorks
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As the fashion industry faces pressure to become more sustainable, many companies are turning to one of the promising leather alternatives on the market: mushroom leather.
It’s not just fringe fashion. In March 2021, the French luxury goods company Hermès released a new version of its popular $5,000 Victoria duffle bag that’s made from mycelium - the thread-like fungal roots that grow underneath mushrooms. The fungus leather shares common traits with animal leather: durability, strength, aesthetics, and feel. But the differences in environmental impact are stark.
The majority of leather products come from cattle, which are one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters, mainly through belching methane. And while most cattle are raised and slaughtered for beef and dairy products, leather helps sustain the industry, and the leather tanning process can release toxic chrome into the water supply.
Founded in 2013, MycoWorks is a California-based company that uses mycelium to produce sustainable materials. The startup is one in a growing field that believes the best way to curb the fashion industry’s environmental footprint is through fungi - a vast kingdom of diverse and largely mysterious organisms that account for 25% of all biomass worldwide.
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What do you think this material could be used for?
whips. some super loud cracking whips!!!
Car seats.
Clothing, furniture and many more appliances in our daily life.
Mattresses
They are guarding the production process tightly. More real information would have been useful but this little teaser has indeed garnered some attention.
Though I agree with u if u listen to the wording and other videos similar to this u can actually find the process they use. Obviously it will be under different names but if ur smart enough and find the info u can build it yourself!
@@jayroborneo6990 Do you remember which videos you found that explained the process in more detail? I know they tightly control the atmosphere inside the tray (5-7% CO2), but I'm very curious how they customize the final texture and direct the way the fibers grow.
Agreed, they adress the susteinability issue to sell you the product, but in reality they couldn't care less about the environment. As long as they can get their money from selling you a wallet, specifications on how to make it will remain hidden. Egoism is just as bad as plastics. Hope they realize they won't be the world's only supplier of this material in 20 years.
@@alansarthou3276 Rather, they need money to gradually make the world less dependent on money and eventually we won't even remember what a currency is. I browsed through the list and almost every video followed by this is another piece for peace and global prosperity. Hopefully my children's children at least will grow up in a free world. All the division is the reason for all the hate, and ego is the reason for division.. billions of people are starving because of capitalism and consumerism. Everything you think you know is a lie based on a lie to make this lie work.
to be 100% fair if you had a new product idea would you go and tell everyone exactly how you made it before you got paid
So can we buy this? Or invest in the company? Sounds promising.
Pablo, Fyi...FAMI stock is a great option. It is a very large commercial mushroom grower on the Nasdaq. It’s very “cheap” too considering it’s potential. Make sure it’s at least on your watchlist...👍🏽
@@TD-bt8qz Would have been a good investment if it wasn't based in China. I've been stung by China's recent tech company crackdowns.
It looks like they’ve grown extremely thick mushroom leather… and that would be useful and desirable!
Great job at showing durability tests of fungi leather about 5 times, but not mentioning once how well it performs compared to normal leather. .
The technology would grow and become cheap if there's a demand and money thrown at it. I'll buy a mushroom pants. As long as it can withstand a 7 month (even longer) wear and tear.
It probably will grow if for nothing else than the growing trend of making things vegan.
Why buy mushroom pants when you can buy hemp or cotton. This company sucks lol
I've been saying we should use mushrooms as a skin for robots to get a real feel
3:05 sir, SIR !
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2 weeks on An 18,000 view video and you have 5 likes..
Perhaps you have an exceptionally smutty mind.
So it looks nice, and feels nice, but is it tough enough for a blacksmith to use for an apron? Or for my leather boots that need to have specific cut or electrical-resistance? I'm just hoping this isn't a "looks-good, feels-good" solution.
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This is a brilliantly produced series 🎉
Can mycelium really grow into 3 dimensions as easily as on flat sheets? Or will gravity always be a problem, prohibiting consistency of growth? And how will it grow in a microgravity environment? Since we're talking about space, perhaps this is one more industry that might benefit from expanding access to LEO on a massive scale.
I know, it's a wild proposal but I thought I'd put it out there.
it grows though soil which supports it
spin the template while it's growing and gravity's effects will be averaged out in all directions
You can emboss the material to the thickness you want then back it for durability. Im more concerned with water proofing. Mushroom is like a sponge and using PU would completely defeat the purpose.
It literally does this in nature.
I like this 8min video energy coming from this.
This is really cool!
this is incredible
Good stuff! I’m all for it.
Mushrooms are amazing! I eat them daily and don't miss meat. I used to like steak smothered in mushrooms, but now I realize that I always liked the mushrooms the best. More tender than the best steak, and just as tasty.
Mushroom Tacos are tasty
Mushroom Leather sounds like a savory fruit roll up
Sounds like a great vegan friendly alternative to jerky! I'd buy it. Mushrooms are delicious.
I like that guy's moustache and beard, also the mycelium is a pretty cool idea
yeah the mycellium is fine but we all came here for that sweet beard
There is going to be fungus amongus and I love it
How do you cast ,what is the other components you mix with mycelium to come out with leather
hope this becomes a reality soon. i am almost vegan, but I am yet to find a good alternative to leather shoes that is as tough and looks as good. all the synthetic options so far end up stinky and flaking well before they should. real leather boots can last a lifetime if looked after properly. if i could get a decent set of mushroom leather boots id be pretty stoked.
So out of the three. Who stands the best chance at pioneering this? Mycoworks, boltthreads or evocative? Or a fourth/fifth player?
We might all be living in mushroom houses someday.
Awesome! But how much does it cost?
Many of these Vegan leathers are superior in quality compared to traditional animal Leather.
Most of them already outlived the traditional leather. Which is good for people in the fashion industry who purchased luxury goods for future resale because it last longer and easier to take care of.
last longer and easier to take care because 99% are plastic. depends if you want a vegan or a sustainable material (different). brands are pushing them because of their easier industrialization and because they are cheaper
I don't like how dismissive he sounds at 1:45 but other than that, very interesting! I love the concept.
Finally I can get BDSM leathers made of mushrooms
3:05 the 100,000 cycles test
This is how the world works. You make money on a item once there are other profits you cancel it and move on
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Except im allergic to fungus and mold :(
Wow
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3:06 everything reminds of her
I've seen this for everything from packaging to furniture... But why would you buy something made to biodegrade & have your products break on you? Can this be made to be as permanent as desired or will your favorite jacket end up in a composting toilet? I think cloning leather like they do meat is a better solution. Great to replace plastic packaging, doesn't seem at all good for anything you want to last.
Without treatment, i.e. "tanning", animal hide degrades very quickly. This product, (which is likely mainly cellulose) can be treated to last well also.
@@jamesbrown99991 I hope so, I still think cloning is ethical but I've seen that fungi furniture... Don't think there's any way that will last. I do really hope it goes mainstream for packaging, that seems like a true disruptor that could make a huge impact on pollution.
@@10-OSwords I'm hoping fungi furniture is just art, rather than a real product. It looked pretty feral too. There's no reason why lab-leather and microbe-leather can't both be used. The former IIRC requires expensive growth serum, whereas the latter survives on sugar water.
thing is it might be harder to grow (at scale) cloned animal cells outside of an animal body vs. fungus, in terms of time or energy or cost. also i wouldn't be too pessimistic about the longevity until we know more about the materials. who knows, maybe it'll last even longer
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Ok where can I get a mushroom leather jacket
On Instagram¿
He sells and delivered to all locations
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So, what's the carbon footprint on that thing? I mean, if I understand correctly, the carbon footprint of the coton bag is worst than one of a plastic bag. I hardly see how it would be different for this material.
The shitting astronaut animation is out of this world
Maybe past civilizations seem so unadvanced because all their tech was biodegradable and so most of their tech was lost to natural degradation. Someday our houses will be biodegradable to be eco friendly. Then we'll be buying new houses so often it'll launch us back to the medieval ages and technology will be lost once more
1:43 ooh, the "trace of life", what an elegant way of saying "animal carcass"
I mean, yeah, but humans don't always say exactly what they mean. "My mother is no longer with us." And "My mother is in the dirt." Mean the same thing but have a different level of respect.
@@At1asTheProto Using respectful language doesn't make the process of torturing and killing an animal any less immoral. It's just a way for humans to tell themselves that they are doing nothing wrong.
Nobody is going to talk about the weird biohazard mask guy at 1:25 ?
Give the commentator a medal 🥉.
I'm really lichen this idea. > ...leather from mushrooms....
I met some lichenologists, I asked them what kind of in-jokes there were in thier field. Apparently the 9nly lichen joke is about liking lichen.
Tip to kids: don't be a lichenologists, it's dull.
@@dougaltolan3017 Finger lichen good?
If they really care about cows and environment they will share the process of making leather from mycelium
We still eat beef so there will always be leather.
Raising cows to feed a growing population is not sustainable. Cows produces a huge amount of methane which is 20-86 times more potent than CO2 for climate change. Why is the Amazon rain forest being intentionally burned at an alarming rate? To graze cattle, and grow soy. 70-90% of soy is used to fatten animals for slaughter.
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Nice but you never introduced the Asian woman in the chair. She seemed like the CEO to me.
..Anyone else think this narrator sounds vaguely like James Woods? lol
The deer Hunting industry would produce a tremendous amount of deer hide leather!…
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Understandable !
but there is still a tremendous amount of hides being wasted ,
because nobody’s processing it !…and these deer are being eaten, so why not use the hides?
@@johnswartz7872 Agreed. Using their hides would be less cruel than wasting them. We should adopt the practices that the Natives used and use every part of the animal.
@@At1asTheProto Unecessarily shooting a sentient animal in the face is cruel either way. I don't think you would find any solace from the idea of your body not being wasted if you were the one being hunted.
@@crawbug8932 I disagree. I believe that we, as the apex species, both have the responsibility of protecting the environment, but also the reign to use it to benefit us.
@@At1asTheProto might = right? How do you get from "we can murder animals unnecessarily" to "murdering animals unnecessarily is moral"?
So Cows are the biggest polluters, but all this $h!t in the factory is green?
mmmmm tasty
We spend millennia teaching machines... all you need no know about this project.
Constructive Criticism: The "humor" significantly undercuts your otherwise professional and informative videos.
If people don't buy leather, what are you going to do with all those skins that's left over from the meat we ate?
Compost them.
0:05 Nice work, you took only 5 seconds to make a science video inappropriate for all minors and uncomfortable for most adults.
If ur soft ya.
It's 2021. Minors, ain't so minors in this day of age. Internet made sure of that😅