Biodegradability

This card helps you consider how biodegradability affects your biodesign project, balancing environmental benefits with practical limitations.

• In what ways will the goal of biodegradability constrain your design, and how will you creatively navigate those limitations? 

• How will you approach the trade-offs between biodegradability and other performance factors, such as functionality, lifespan, etc.?

• How will you communicate the potential limitations of fully biodegradable materials to clients or stakeholders while emphasizing the environmental benefits?

Loop Living Cocoon

Loop Biotech is a company creating fully biodegradable coffins called the"Loop Living Cocoon™". Their motto is "Feed the Earth and become a source for new life with the world's first mushroom coffin". They explicitly use the unique properties of mycelium to develop for biodegradability at a specific time in the product life cycle. 

• Balance biodegradability with essential performance needs in your design. 

• Identify where biodegradability adds value to your project’s lifecycle and communicate this impact clearly to stakeholders. 

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