Fungus: The Plastic of the Future
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Since its inception, plastic has changed the world as we know it. It's cheap, versatile, and makes up most of the objects we use on a daily basis. But the material has some major drawbacks: It uses non-renewable oil resources, and it sticks around forever, which is a big problem considering the frequency that we dump this material back into landfills.
Now, scientists and designers are looking to an unlikely source that they hope will eventually replace plastic when it comes some of these everyday material uses- they're looking to fungus.
In this episode of Upgrade, Motherboard dives head first into the R+D world surrounding the development of fungi as a viable replacement for plastic, and the people who hope it can lead to a better and more sustainable future.
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youtube should put this on trending
Vice should maybe upload it to their main channel..
Yes, we have to dig thru videos to find truly worthy content
the algorithm wont allow it, it'll put plastic businesses at risk.
ruclips.net/video/jnMXH5TqqG8/видео.html It's an old video reuploaded.
@@Gromic2k oh that is why I had a deja vu feeling about this vid and yup left a like when it came out 2015 lol
Nothing says Asia like a Uni in the Netherlands.
Haha I was thinking the same! And all the Dutch conversations are way too Asian!
@@veganbackpacking-8559 Lol me too! I was watching this& like: 'Wait, I can't speak any Asian language, why don't I need subs?' :' )
I was so confused by this post at first, then realized it was Vice Asia
I also mostly didn't need the subs :)
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
You can't run stuff like this in the United States of Oilmerica, the gov will make you 100% less alive X.x
i hope this replaces most plastic!
@Mr. X since when has gov debt ever mattered.
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Me too!
RUclips has video of guy using a type of worm to biodegrade used surfboards (a type of plastic). Those worms need to get to work on landfills.
@@fadenmac8092 ive always wondered why they havent created a plastic eating organism or chemical to get rid of the issue!
"Grondstof" means natural resource, not landfill waste.
He is not recycling, he is using biodegradable matter.
Yes, wtf. He's using trees and potato starch (4:52). Those are renewable resources, but not recycled resources... there's a difference.
Lol, have you heard how the commentagor is speaking english..lol you expect them to translate it perfectly?
Uh he is just translating the word grondstof correctly, grondstof is not landfill waste...
@@brandonle6236 anyone can use a dictionary these days to do translating. translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=nl&tl=en&text=grondstof
@Mordaci Stewart No, it is just that if you literally translate "Grond Stof" you get "Land Dust" in English. It is no ill will, it is a classic case of google translate.
Here he is again... saving the world and being an amazing human
~ Johnny sins
man of culture!
🤣🤣🤣
Ah shit, here we go again. *faps*
We could all do better with more fungus among us.
Up Greyedd incubus
@@michaelscott70 affirmative. I didn't think anyone would catch that.
Yes I agree whole heartily but sadly worldwide societies won't care until it's a life or death scenario.
A Morano idk man ozy g looks like a Hillary supporter
Ozy G yes we should turn the world into the movie Wall-e because of your idiotic comment...
Although you might be dead because you seem like the kind of idiot that wouldn’t believe masks don’t work so hopefully this all took care of itself
I hope it get funded soon enough
@@Jetlag408 as shown by Ozy G, we as a species will continue our destructive path until we are ourselves are effected in a life or death scenario. humans don't care about this planet only themselves taken as the majority worldwide.
finally... a glimmer of hope in this dark.. dark world
finally? Humans make progress for the last million years
@Alfonso G what do you expect?
Alfonso G We all have to make sacrifices for progress
put your glimmer of hope away, we need darkness for the fungus to grow!
Vittamar Akbin r u asking me to subvert my good expectations??
I can't wait for this to become the norm! (And there's nothing gross about fungi!)
Agreed! Mushrooms will save us all!
There really isn't but sadly the majority of humans worldwide won't care until it's a life or death scenario to care for the planet.
Peopl who are grossed out are have no clue what fungus is or how it works. The education system has failed is tremendously
@@andysux1 I know what fungus is. And yes, it's still gross.
@@Sorrowdusk but there are living organisms living in your hair follicles on your face. Surely that cant be more gross than some mycelium
This makes me want to go into biological design
Henry 403 or materials engineer, a growing field
That's the future
@Ozy G STOP REPEATING THE SAME WORDS IN EVERY COMMENT I SEEN U 3 TIMES ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Ozy G do u have some affliction to mushroom or something?
look into "permaculture" people are designing food forests, and they feed the soil
That actually gave me some hope in mankind!
@Ozy G not all kind of fungus is bad
@Ozy G i did not say mycelium fungal growth in body isn't bad i'd said that not all fungus are bad
@Ozy G You don't get fungal growth in the body by being around fungus, that's why we can eat mushrooms...
@Ozy G u miss the part where they cook it??? Also if you work in that facility maybe you could wear a hazmat suit and a respirator if you're that worried.
@@privatemorg yup. Not all mushroom species want to mess with the human body. The best mushrooms to use would not be the parasitic kind like the candida yeasts, but helpful organisms that only munch on decaying plant matter like sawdust, food soiled cardboard, or leaf litter.
Combine these with some kind of bio-friendly, food-safe, water-proof coating and you could have a viable alternative to plastic water/soda bottles.
wax
@@carlosandleon
theres a reason we don't use wax to seal drinking water pipes......
@@rocksfire4390 well at least you can make waterproof fungus raincoats
@@carlosandleon
or you could just use whatever the hell they are using now and almost NEVER need to replace your raincoat. or you know just be like me and not have one. ez.
@@rocksfire4390 lol I don't have one either
after watching this video I think this earth can be saved from plastic
we will die WAY before plastic would kill us. just pointing out that the Earth is in big trouble and the problem isn't plastic, at least not yet anyway.
@Ozy G dude stfu
@Ozy G people like you only hinder the progression to heal and protect this planet we've so nicely fucked over. stop spreading your absolute hatred towards this revolution.
Paul stamets was right
I hope it gives excellent results . The world plastic consumption is increasing rapidly . It has to be reduced and something sustainable should be made for now and for the future generations!
@Ozy G you are only copy pasting your ignorance to continue the destructive path of us as a species by spreading your doubt and selfishness. Because for people like you who don't care about the well being of this beautiful planet will only hinder our species progression. For the good of us but especially for the planets health and well being for all living things.
Such a wonderful product bio packaging awesome
Hell yeah, stop the one use plastics 2019
Plastics will always be in use; until plastics machines are no use.
@@absolut.4780 plastic can be used, but limit the use of ONE use plastics . Like plastic forks and juul pods 😎
@@CasaFuenteOrange And maximising recycling within the community.
@@CasaFuenteOrange For example,
Build strategic alliances with public organisations to access Business recycling investments.
Research Green R & D to reinvent ourselves & relations within the community.
Look at recycling transportation processing packing & storage.
Work in tandem with system of government to create recycling programs with high recovery goals for paper plastics.
Look at existing government policies & private sector processing facilities.
Instill procurement policies that offer additional business benefits.
Become environmentally responsible.
Work with processer to form your own contamination and quality checks.
Develop strategic alliances with public institutions, local government to split R & D cost.
Develop a report card & teach the recycling loop to schools.
Educate America
This is really dope! Wow. It's just so nice seeing different eco-sustainable techniques being made to combat waste.
@Ozy G
There's enough pollution for respiratory illness as it is.
Hemp the plastic of the future
Even hemp plastic isn't very good for the environment. To breakdown as most people claim, it requires specific moisture and heat. They won't break down much in landfills, oceans, etc. It requires special facilities. Basically, it will take the same amount of work as recycling for consumers. People not recylcing plastic now wont start magically doing it once the "eco-friendly" plastic comes out. If anything they will do it less. Tack on production costs, water intensiveness, and the amount of ecosystems we'd need to destroy to grow enough plastic...we are left with a bandaid on a bullet wound. Hemp plastic will help some but hardly at all.
@@alexandercanella4479I'm not all that knowledgeable on the plastic side of hemp , but for sure has to be a step up from petroleum-based plastic? hemp fibre/clothing rope is forsure biodegradable and compostable though.
@@Killedbycotton I did say it was a little better. Most rope that isnt made of hemp is biodegrable too. But hemp is better for those things than plants like cotton. Cotton is even more water intensive but hemp requires extra steps to make it less susceptable to fraying. Bad for ropes and clothing. I'd love to see hemp farms replace other types of farms and deforestation but we should at least be honest. A lot of people make it out to be some huge conspiracy of why its not used all that much but really, it comes down to cost and labor.
This is huge, this video will probably get removed. You can make boats out of mycellium lmfao!
I like the idea a lot, but they didn't talk about how long it degrades, what it degrades into, how the degradation affects wildlife, cost of use & how much resources are needed to make it.
It's a new material so expect them to sell it like sliced bread before consumers figure out they already have a knife to cut their own. It will still fill landfills and the waste will simply be eaten by grubs and other ground dwelling creatures. It's good for the planet because those bugs are heavily needed as a fundament for foodchains. So yeah, I wouldn't worry so much about the consequences as it were plastic, where it just stays as is and eventually starts releasing toxins which are passed up that same foodchain and eventually ends up in your bodies. It also kills thousands if not millions of creatures every year who try to eat it and get internal bleedings or simply choke to death.
Yeah, plastic is so much better.
Hemp has been here the whole time..............
Please take this as constructive criticism.
When you put text on the screen please put something behind/around it so it is easier to read.
Also use text translation sparingly. When you mix changing visual imagery with text you are dividing your audience's attention.
You want your audience too easily consume the information you're giving them. You should not be making it difficult or frustrating for your audience.
Makes us wonder if we're glong back in time but everything was so biodegradable that futuristic tech of the past simply faded from exisitance...
no we definitely are going back lol
we will probably retrieve our spirit power as well
Guess who's gonna build a fungi house.. this guy!
You must be a Fun Guy! 😄👍
Awesome, packaging should be recyclable and safe to the environment
It is a great compost matterial for the garden.
Thank you for all amazing person who could produce something like this!
Same exact video Motherboard posted two years ago...?
Yeah, they did.
ruclips.net/video/jnMXH5TqqG8/видео.html
@@tobycooper4639 Whoa
anyone that likes this should look up Paul Stamets. Hes a mycologist studying fungi that produce nuerogenisis. very cool work
Good for you!
Vice, please do more videos like this and no more political videos
ruclips.net/video/jnMXH5TqqG8/видео.html
They reuploaded an old video.
Jokes on you. In some countries, this would be super political.
Suchiththa W where?
Mi chi well, shit. Motherboard is better
Well this is a political video 😂😂 I'm sorry 😁
We're so close to plumbus technology love your work!
Lead tech?
@@Selloutcs if you don't get it then nothing in life matters.
@@austinbradshaw5021 I get the little ricky and Morty pun
@@Selloutcs Idk what your talking about then.
This is plumbus x
This is how the Flood starts my dudes
Tee hee 😉
So happy that humans like these exist.
we already solve plastic problem. we can use plastic made of cassava instead of polymers. but, only a few people use it, cause it's 40% expensive.
This message is sent from 2159 A.D., the fungus finally took over the world. I'm one of the last survivor that managed to sent this message back...n...no...they are here...pleas
Omg I am a panic. What to do??
If you were being attacked, why would you type out your panic?
Uploaded 2 days ago, but I have seen this on RUclips's Vice channel before!?
It said © vice 2015 at the end credits, so I reckon it's a repost by vice Asia.
I am willing to pay a little more for products if they use this material, its worth it.
The only big questions to ask is: can it be used in circuit boards? Can it be used to encase chips?
In the future, we will probably use fungi circuits, as fungi do in the ground.
@@90lundo
Oh, do Fungi form insulated electrical current conductors? No? Fuck off with that pseudo-science.
Let's just hope they'll make it cheaper than current plastic
What about people with a fungus allergy? What would happen if fungi replaced plastic?
I want to implement this here in the US now. We still do not have proper recycling infrastructure & we shouldn't be sending it out to other countries. Just because we're not the only troublemakers doesn't mean we shouldn't take responsibility.
Can't come soon enough, off to pick up some more litter!
This is incredible! Why the hell hasn't this taken over soooo many plastic producing companies, surely they are aware of the problems they are causung they must be open to alternatives whatever that is but this looks like it'd actually be better in just about every way!
One step in the right direction. Sadly, 5 to 6 days production time isn’t efficient enough for this to become widespread.
Looks like the majority of people aren't interested in trying to save the planet we all live on.
Sadly it'll be too late when people will care.
EXCELLENT reporting thanks there is a fungus among us 🍄 👍
Nice but please without subtitle hardcored on display, and subtitle upload on youtube with text plain.
You're Wong!
@@power3244 Yo Greetz Mr. Wong.
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This needs to be legislated as the only kind of packaging material that is legal to use anywhere!!
This video has been published on "motherboard" 4 years ago
lol this man is working in the fume hood practicing sterile practices but not wearing gloves I’m confuse
When I was in high school and the genome had just been unlocked, I dreamed of engineering some sort of mindless, hard-bodied jellyfish that could serve as our new plastic boxes, able to be returned to the soil when they were done. These fungal structures are like my dream come true!
I think on some other usages of mushrooms, if you know what I mean
How about a cup or a plate that instead of washing them you eat them and have a wonderful experience.
Yeah like bio-remediation, replacing pesticides, preventative cancer treatments, forest restoration, and so many more.
Well it is the Netherlands afterall
in before the decomposing fungus over saturates the soil with compounds that plants cannot grow well in :D....
Its certainly better than the tons of plastics that oversaturates the environment
@@kyleisahuman you dont know that, only time will tell.
9:58 "nu-cu-lar"? Seriously? I would have issues with that person on my payroll.
what is the issue? The pronunciation?
He's a ceo. He can keep some grammar nazis on his payroll. 😂
Weird part is Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush have all used that pronunciation. 0.o en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucular
at least someone is doing something different.
Smart and unifying content Vice. I look forward to seeing more of this in the future.
we can just use flexseal to replace plastic
The problem is it takes too long to produce and requires wood. Something we really can't afford to be using more of.
and what if we just stopped to use single-use materials?
That would be great but is not going to happen over night
Is this the teaser for The Last Of Us movie?
Absolutely Genius, Sir,. Top Shelf
Its funny seeing them use plastic to package the mycelium materials
i wonder how long this stuff takes to decompose ? lol
I would imagine it's more biodegradable
What strain of fungi is that?
But, how long does it take to decompose? What do you need to compost it? What's the humidity requirements?
Too many questions...
Meh. Only 1000 times faster than regular plastics. Just an arbitrary number, but I think its a good guess. These people do stuff. Better than most of us
Amazing! Thanks for sharing about this! I have been experimenting with growing oyster mushrooms at home and the mycelium binds the stuff I grow it on (right now aspen wood shavings) really well. I think it would be fun to experiment with trying to make some of this material at home by letting a chunk of fully colonized shavings dry out fully (maybe experiment with baking it) and see what I get. :)
That song at the end would make a sick beat and also im glad youtube put this on trending
I'm trying to find the name of this song. It might be from Jingle Punks as they're in the credits.
Cant wait for spores to be floating all ova my house! Going organic!
This was already made 3 years ago look up the title on yt and see
"100 years from now, I don't think you'll be able to recognize the world anymore" 8:48 Certainly 100 years from now I won't !
This sounds like an introduction to Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
Mushrooms will conquer the future, they offer sustainable solutions for everything, said the mushrooms.
You have Shown me a Adhesive as Versatile as Hemp Fiber
This should only be used for short-term containers. They used organic/decomposable wiring insulation in many European cars, which quickly deteriorated/broke down in a few years. Not very sustainable when the car needs to be replaced...
I would love to see, this innovation in the carindustry
Yeah they should start by growing a bicycle.
Dude talking about PLA plastic like it's some sort of breakthrough tech. It's been in use for a long time; So what if it's made from potato starch rather than corn starch, most FDM 3D printers use PLA.
Yes, just like we here in México send beer bottles back to the company to be washed and reused. All plastics should be all natural and biodegradable (made from fungus, avocado seeds, etc) and even those plastics should be avoided with things like reusable glass bottles. (And we should all have solar panels on our home, business and covered parking rooftops while using solar charged electric vehicles too.)
Low volume. Wont outcompete plastic. The only way to replace plastic with biomaterials is if you can make some organisms in a vat create natural monomers en masse. Of course easier said than done, but I think these people are taking less efficient path towards their end goal of replacing plastics. These techniques uses moulds (kek on pun) to shape the mould over days and then use ovens to bake them, probably also days to make them dry properly. Our modern plastics can be made everywhere and shipped in pellets, a win for logistics. And then these pellets can be feed into an injection molder and have the finished part come out of machine in minutes. They dare use this for packing wine bottles. The techniques shown here will not be able to do it for everyday items like disposable plastic plates
There is common misconception today that all plastics come from Fossil Fuels ( Journalist always seem to talk about it this way), however since the 1970's numerous biodegradable polymers, Bioplastics ( such as Poly Lactic Acid from Corn), have been replacing hazardous ones. Fungi is just one of many among the ever-expanding trend of Bioplastics :)
If you wan't to bitch about plastics point your finger to Coca-Cola, who for several decades still refuses to use recycled PET in their soda bottles to maximize profit.
my good friend who enjoyed magic mushrooms taught me about this crazy mycelium shit, I am so impressed with the intelligence of some humans out here...amazing stuff
@ 3:35 /
That smug, "I know something you don't know" look,
was absolutely fantastic! Huge things coming soon.
People re-using containers would help now though.
The third world of 'no collection' is just imploding.
This is amazing! The innovations! (But could i ask, what the risk? It also has side effect is'n it? I am imagining this fungus replaces mayor of plastic. Then what? Could it really replaces the plastic without any side effect?)
Nothing personal, it is just.. the innovation is truly amazing, so i can help but to asking for further possibilities.
Imagine your iPhone made from this material it would be shitakePhone
Do not be fooled, using fungus will no replace conventional plastics (at least for the foreseeable future). The reason why we use petroleum-based plastics is because they're quick and suppers cheap to manufacture. Industry manufacturers are not going to invest the time nor money to let their products sit and "grow" using funguses. They want plastics that can be purchased in bulk quantities and be in injected into vacuum modes and then solidify in a manner of seconds.
I'ts nice to explore how funguses can be used to replace plastics, but instead of making fancy looking chairs to figure out how they plan on using funguses, these university professors should be more concerned with actually making the funguses: How do they plan on ever making enough fungus-plastic to compete with conventional plastic? The growth rate of funguses is pretty slow after all. They probably need fast-growing fungi stains that can polymerize as they cultivate, enough to grow pounds by the day. At least in my opinion (I'm no expert, just a regular college student).
Overall, I love the idea of using fungus as biodegradable plastics. But it just isn't practical at the moment.
I like the idea, but I'd like to see a comprehensive energy-consumption comparison. Show us that this fungal technology uses less fossil-fuel based energy than traditional plastic, and we'll have a winner. But right now, intuition tells me that this technology is expensive: paying all the scientists, cost of manufacturing materials, the use of the labs and lab equipment costs, etc.; inefficient: 3 week grow time, small production facilities, no large numbers of units here=no economy of scale; and complicated: too many steps, why 3d print wood pulp, populate it with fungal paste, put it in a bag, wait 3 weeks, then dry it in an oven for a toothbrush holder when I could just 3d print it out of ABS in one step?
What happens when these materials end in a landfill and were not complettly deactivated?
Why am i not surprised mushroom technology comes out of the netherlands? ;)
EDIT:
Is this a reupload? I am pretty sure i have seen this content before. Ah Vice *Acia*, do i now get the same content for different Vice channels ...
I'd love to see a fungus that is capable of eating waste, so essentially plastic is edible waste nutrition for the fungus to eat, so it can clear away the waste we humans produce on daily/months/yearly.
using plastic molds to grow fungus Packaging.. ?? 3rr0r..§?$..didn't find logic.
Is it safe for those with fungus allergies though? My mom is deathly allergic. I know there's plenty of others with that allergy too... hopefully being dead means they won't... dead those with allergies.
But otherwise this is amazing!
Has this been tried with regolith and wastes of all kinds which are abundant on the moon or Mars (including human and non recyclable products)? But since they require oxygen unlike plants, maybe there is a plant based substitute which could be similarly used plus remove Carbon Dioxide from the air while releasing oxygen?
Small translation mistake at 4:31. Local landfill waste should be; local resources, not waste, even though probably possible. :)
So where is the U.K. when it comes to innovative science? Successive govts failed to understand the pivotal role science plays in an economy and in daily life. Lack of investment leads to our science brains finding funding abroad. The result - we slip from world leading to the science equivalent of a developing nation, just like our auto industry.
Disposable plastic water bottles should be replaced with this material..
If it's heavily fortified with glue, wouldn't the final product not be biodegradable and, in some ways, as bad as petroleum-based plastics?
Does anyone know the 3D modeling software used in this video? @ ( 5:19 - 5:21 ) Could you kindly please let me know? Thanks RUclips :D 👌
change the distribution system, aka food and all the easily accessed points. groceries should be replaced and should be integrated with residential building. at most, the monetary system should be changed first...
I feel like they are saying something entirely different than what the subs read. Pretty sure in real they are actually talking about ancient alien technology in ancient Deutschland.
If you guys are interested in learning more about fungi and what it can do to change our world, I highly suggest watching Paul Stamets on RUclips he has an amazing ted talk and his books are awesome. He also has an episode on Joe Rogan show for anyone interested! This is amazing!
See these are real solutions, not to yell and scream like a child and ban disposable plastic products or even plastic in general but to actually create something that will not only solve the problem of throwing away or using disposable plastic products but actually exceed the use of plastics themselves to be not only better but cheaper and to make even more money too for eliminating expensive processes and materials like oil involved in its production, then to pressure everyone to use that as an industry standard and THEN you can finally ban disposable plastic products but nobody will care because nobody's using them. Capitalism.