What's the Problem?

The materials we use every day are obtained from highly polluting linear economy processes, extraction, transformation, and disuse of natural resources. To avoid this, there are initiatives developing sustainable biomaterials from agricultural residues and fungi. The complexity and differences between agricultural residues are pushing this tech to use only one type of residue, leaving a broad range of waste without seizing. This not only increases the production costs of this type of biomaterial, but it is also limiting the scalability and impact that this technology can have on environmental issues.

How are they Solving it?

With the implementation of a specific fungi and bacteria consortium, we have managed to enhance the growth characteristics of the fungus that transforms agricultural residues into biomaterials. This process enables assimilation of agricultural residues with different compositions and different origins, scaling the developed technology of materials from fungi to any part of the world using local waste. In addition to this, the consortium protects the culture against antagonist microorganisms that can limit its growth and increase the speed of growth, raising the efficiency of the process by up to 80%. Implementing this consortium of fungi and bacteria in the process of growing biomaterials from fungi using any kind of vegetative agricultural waste, representing an opportunity to scale this technology to any part of the world, adding to the processes a considerable reduction in costs in the production and achieve a positive environmental impact.

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