Plastic-eating fungi dig diapers | Nature Biotechnology
https://www.profitableratecpm.com/f4ffsdxe?key=39b1ebce72f3758345b2155c98e6709c
In 2019, Miki Agrawal, serial eco-entrepreneur and new mom, turned her attention to diapers. Horrified by the number of diapers ending up in the landfill, Agrawal looked for a greener option. She found it in a children’s book describing mushrooms as nature’s disposal unit. “[Mycelium] will destroy dead trees, and because the layers have the same carbon skeleton, the mycelium can destroy the layers,” says Agrawal, founder of Hiro Technologies.
In September 2025, the Hiro Technologies team launched the MycoDigestible layer. Each diaper comes with a pouch filled with plastic-eating mycelium spores. The pouch is placed in the used layer and the humidity activates the dried mycelium.
