{"id":5562,"date":"2011-04-07T16:12:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T15:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2011-04-08T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T15:17:05","slug":"dell-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/04\/07\/dell-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell plans pilot program for mushroom-based packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2011-04\/7\/dell-plans-mushroom-based-packaging\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5565\" title=\"110408_dell\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/110408_dell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>The packaging for your next computer could be grown, not manufactured. Dell has announced it will be the first technology company to ship a product in an organic, mushroom-based packaging material, which Wired.co.uk covered last year. The biotechnology design uses agricultural waste, like cotton seed, wood fiber and buckwheat hulls, placed in a mould and inoculated with mushroom spores, so it becomes the root structure of the shroom and grows into the shape of the mould. Cushioning protection for a large server takes about five to ten days to grow, and all the energy needed comes from the carbohydrates and sugars in the waste: no carbon or nuclear fuels required. It&#8217;s impressive stuff, and has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the US EPA, and the USDA. As part of Dell&#8217;s pilot program, when you buy the PowerEdge R710 server (in the multipack packaging configuration, which slots four systems into one box to reduce materials), the usually-polystyrene innards will be organic, and grown from fungus. Instead of chucking them in the bin, you can lob them on the compost heap. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2011-04\/7\/dell-plans-mushroom-based-packaging\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA | Company: Dell | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2011-04\/7\/dell-plans-mushroom-based-packaging\" target=\"_blank\">wired.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The packaging for your next computer could be grown, not manufactured. Dell has announced it will be the first technology company to ship a product in an organic, mushroom-based packaging material, which Wired.co.uk covered last year. The biotechnology design uses agricultural waste, like cotton seed, wood fiber and buckwheat hulls, placed in a mould and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dell","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}