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- Author(s): Frazier, Ian
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New Yorker. 5/20/2013, Vol. 89 Issue 14, p50-62. 13p. 1 Color Photograph.
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The article discusses inventors and entrepreneurs Gavin McIntyre and Eben Bayer from the company Ecovative Design LLC, who developed a plastic packaging substitute from the mycelium of mushrooms after meeting at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in New York. Their mentor and RPI professor Burt Swersey is mentioned, as well as the environmental effects of Styrofoam, or foamed polystyrene. The entrepreneurs' families, education, and the history of the company Dow Chemical are mentioned.
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