An edible fungus that grows by eating plastic

In Europe, a designer from Austria, Katharina Unger, is working with Utrecht University on “a system that cultivates edible plastic-digesting fungi,” says Wired. “That’s right, you can eat mushrooms that eat plastic.” It’s a follow-on to the discovery in 2012 of a variety of mushroom capable of breaking down polyurethane. “The findings got Unger thinking: What… » Read More