Hiro Technologies Co-Founder Miki Agrawal poses with a diaper and a pouch full of plastic-eating fungi at her company’s laboratory, in Austin AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -Could baby poop and fungi work ...
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At 10 a.m. on a sunny May morning, I arrived at a nondescript office building just north of the University of Texas at Austin’s campus. The building was home to medical clinics and biotech companies, ...
Disposable diapers are a huge and ever-increasing problem. Millions of disposable diapers end up in landfills, where the trash persists for centuries (roughly 500 years in most cases). Think about it: ...
According to Time Magazine, an average of 27.4 million diapers are discarded every year — and that’s just in the U.S. alone. When facing a plastic crisis of that scale, where do you begin? That’s the ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Could baby poop and fungi work together to tackle landfill waste? That's the idea behind a new product launched by an Austin, Texas-based startup that sells disposable diapers paired ...
Plastic-eating fungi diapers to tackle landfill waste A new product launched in Texas sells disposable diapers paired with fungi intended to break down the plastic.