Mushroom Found that Eats Plastic...And It's edible!

people underestimate nature

its powerful

Right. If we help it, the Earth will clean itself. There's even a fungi that will clean up radiation. Don't have a link to the article, but a couple of years back, a farmer in Fukushima found that spraying his plants and soil with this fungi cleaned up the radiation. Hemp will do a good job of that as well.

This could be the biggest environmental news yet. I'm not sure that the big companies really want to fix the problem though. If they did they would be converting plastics back into hydrocarbons, and burning them for fuel.

Somewhere along the line Western society came to believe that Nature had been 'conquered', that science and medicine had rendered the natural world somehow obsolete, as though human beings had surpassed God with amoxocillin and flouxetine.

Natural, innate processes operate in all of us, in every living thing, and are constantly shifting and adapting to the environment as every living thing does. It's the system we're too immersed in to see clearly, and ultimately it rules us, chemicals and all. What is on the earth, but not of it?

That's pretty succinct. Earth is an organism, and we aren't to conquer it, but to steward it and keep things in balance.

So damn cool, but I'm not eating it

Lol! The article says the "roots", what they mean is the mycelium.

And they say it tastes like anise...I'm not a fan, but, I would try this mushroom. I'm a mushroom freak, though!

You are all aright so I have nothing to add, just going to say thanks.

We are all governed by higher powers. But life is somewhat special in that it attempts to create a new order amidst the chaos.

But is that chaos really chaos?

Anyway, I love your reply. GLP needs more thinkers like you.

The popular psychedelic mushroom Psilocybin Cubensis can break down and consume aluminum.

Thanks for the pin!!

Fungi are our best friends and most don't even know it.

think of those spores being carried by the wind everywhere and the damage to all the plastic stuff we rely on.

BAN importation of that devil mushroom. It's not wars that will kill the world but spores will.

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This is such good NEWS!

I've been very concerned about plastic biodegradability for a long time now, ever since learning of massive amounts of plastic accumulating in the oceans and elsewhere, especially near 3rd world countries.

Hopefully this really helps. Thank you for posting.

Especially Mushrooms. Many books on the power of mushrooms that are fascinating, many feel the key to survival lies with mushrooms. Did you know you can keep all insects & mice away from your home FOREVER
just by lining up a few mushrooms
Lots of other fascinating things to read
MYCELIUM RUNNING by Paul Stamets
Also has YouTube videos

I dunno, 1 step removed from plastic isn't far enough for my liking, even if it tasted like Ribeye.

I'm a bit of a freak, too - I've yet to try a mushroom I didn't love!

:fw_shrooms:

I read somewhere recently that plastics break down when buried, in a landfill, way faster than they thought.

But in addition to the that, and the mushrooms they also developed several enzymes and bacteria that ate plastic.

Making plastics out of: hemp, flax and straw, the 3 that chair the same chemistry, means it would naturally dissolve.

So many solutions, they never want to implement them however.

They want massive control over your life.

I will never give it.

Yes that ^^^

Whoa! Lotsa 'shrooms!

They turned atheist a.k.a. the turned tard.
Nothing more retarded and smug than an atheist.

Right. Amazing things, mushrooms. And while Stamets is a bit wacky, he sure has done a tremendous job in clarifying mushrooms and making fungi more accessible in the not so simple grocery store varieties.

His interview with Joe Rogan is excellent.

Maybe the Last of Us was on to something?

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... and I'm NEVER eating that lab grown meat! ... imagine if HUMAN CELLS accidentally got into the grow mix! ...
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I think the less we help the better, Mother Earth does fine on her own last 4.9 billion years

Soylent Green is mushroom people.

And you'll like it.

And if thats not cool enough, mushrooms are used to transmute radiation into chemical energy for growth and gradually heal the environment in places like chernobyl.
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"Like plants that grow toward the sun, dark fungi, blackened by the skin pigment melanin, gravitate toward radiation in contaminated soil. "

"Organisms that make melanin have a growth advantage in this soil,"

"The presumption has always been that we don't know why truffles and other fungi are black," Casadevall says. "If they have some primitive capacity to harvest sunlight or to harvest some kind of background radiation a lot of them would be using it."

Melanin drinks in ultraviolet rays, acting as a natural sunblock for human skin. "Melanin is very good at absorbing energy and then dissipating it as quickly as possible," says Jennifer Riesz, a biophysicist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. "It does this by very efficiently changing the energy into heat."

But Casadevall and his colleague Ekaterina Dadachova, a nuclear chemist at Einstein, speculate that the melanin in this case acts like a step-down electric transformer, weakening the energy until it is useable by the fungi. "The energy becomes … low [at] a certain point where it can already be used by a fungus as chemical energy," Dadachova argues. "Protection doesn't play a role here. It is real energy conversion."

Holy mushroom shit!

More study is needed to confirm whether fungi will be able to add the ability to grow by harvesting radiation to their list of seeming superpowers, but it does raise the question of whether edible fungi—like mushrooms—have been harboring this function undiscovered for years. If true, melanin could be genetically engineered into photosynthetic plants to boost their productivity or melanin-bearing fungi could be used in clothing to shield workers from radiation or even farmed in space as astronaut food. The group plans further tests to see if fungi with melanin are converting other wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum into energy, as well.