Dutch Students create green 'living casket' made mushroom fiber

 Dutch Students create green 'living casket' made mushroom fiber

Dutch Students create green 'living casket' made mushroom fiber

Startup Company Of Netherlands based on eco-friendly fungi mycelium casket

The First Funeral in the Netherlands using New sort of “Living coffin” constructed of mycelium, the fibre that made forms root network part of fungi.

It is a living organism that is constantly looking for waste products, such as waste fruits, leaves, agriculture waste to convert into useful nutrients for the environment. There is so many toxic substances like oil, plastic and metals to harmful for environment, that can be degraded by using living organisms.

Hendrickx, a  26 year-old biodesigner who studied at the Technical University of Delft. Hendrikx study on the Fungi species of Mycelium is  “nature recycler”.  It is neutralise toxins and provide fresh food to everything growing above ground, but its fibres can be used to make anything from food to clothes and packaging including coffins.

The coffin means we put (a our body).  Hendrikx said the human body in a traditional coffin becomes compost can take a decade or more, slowed by the varnished wood and metals of the casket and synthetic clothing, which can take even longer to disintegrate.

 

The coffin is living in more ways than one. The manufacture consists of taking a starter of a stemmed lacquer fungus (Ganoderma lucidum) and placing it in a mould.

From that point on, the fungus grows and forms into the shape of a coffin. While still in the mould, the mushroom is fed with hemp fibres, flour and water. Growth is complete in seven days.

A mycelium coffin will be absorbed back into the soil within a month or six weeks. He said, actively contributing to the full decomposition of the body it contains and enriching the surrounding soil quality – all within a period of two to three years.

The is working with scientists to measure the impact of human bodies on soil quality, with a view, Hendrikx said, to “convincing policymakers to convert polluted areas into healthy forests – with our bodies as nutrients”.

Earlier this month, the first burial took place using a Living Cocoon coffin, of an elderly woman whose son had selected the coffin. “coffins must be made of a natural material” which is not impregnated or contain wood protective materials or “organic halogen compounds”.