Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 511: Mycelium Packaging

"Mr. Chen."

The founder of the company called Future Environment Company, Jiang Ming, came out personally to welcome Chen Yiyang.

For a small company like theirs, an investor at Chen Yiyang’s level was someone they couldn’t even get in touch with through connections.

Now that Chen Yiyang was coming in person, Jiang Ming had been waiting at the company’s entrance ever since he got the call, afraid of making a bad impression on Chen Yiyang.

But Chen Yiyang was only interested in the product.

Ever since his idea to build a photolithography plant hadn’t materialized, Chen Yiyang’s interest in cutting-edge technology products had only intensified.

The halo benefits from investing in Deepseek that he had been enjoying were almost running out.

He needed a new investment halo to maintain his image.

"Our company’s main research direction is environmentally friendly materials."

Jiang Ming began to introduce his company’s products to Chen Yiyang.

"Currently, with the rapid development of our country’s express delivery and food delivery industries, packaging has become a huge problem.

As everyone knows, while plastic packaging is useful, it is difficult to degrade and burning it produces toxic gases.

Therefore, finding new degradable packaging materials is now a major direction in the environmental protection field."

As Jiang Ming spoke, he led Chen Yiyang to the company’s R&D center to show him what they had developed.

"Is this foam?" Chen Yiyang looked at a pile of things in the R&D center that looked like foam and asked.

"To be precise, it’s mycelium."

"Mycelium?"

"Yes," Jiang Ming continued, "The so-called mycelium is a fungal root structure of plants, which has been proven to be used in packaging and construction, and is also known as active building material."

As Jiang Ming spoke, he picked up one of the items Chen Yiyang thought were foam, allowing Chen Yiyang to squeeze it and feel it.

Mycelium packaging material.

Chen Yiyang pinched it, feeling that the texture was much better than ordinary foam, soft and not sticky.

"How is this thing made, is it easy to produce?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"Since mycelium is an active root structure of mushroom fungus, it can be custom grown in molds according to the mold’s shape.

Once the mycelium packaging achieves the pre-set shape, the mold heats the mycelium to stop its growth and set its shape.

So mycelium is currently very easy to produce and more convenient to customize."

"And the drawbacks?" Chen Yiyang asked again.

Such a useful material not yet widely adopted must have significant drawbacks.

"The drawback is that it cannot be preserved for a long time and is not durable. Because it degrades too quickly, it can essentially be treated as disposable packaging material."

Jiang Ming said, "Of course, we are currently trying to research a solution to this problem."

"Let me think about it."

Chen Yiyang thought for a while.

He felt that even though this stuff couldn’t be used as mainstream packaging material, it actually had a lot of commercial applications.

First is customized large-item packaging.

Many large heavy items can easily get bumped and damaged during transport.

Such as some precision instruments.

But if this mycelium packaging is used to customize the shape of the instrument and insert the instrument directly inside for transport,

then due to the softness of the mycelium itself, even if there is a collision, the instrument inside is unlikely to get damaged.

Not to mention that dealing with this mycelium packaging is indeed very easy.

Even if one is lazy about recycling, just throwing it in a field is fine.

The mycelium will quickly degrade and become fertilizer for the land.

Additionally, in some high-end products and luxury goods fields,

using this mycelium packaging immediately boosts the status.

Although such packaging will have a premium, what luxury customers want is uniqueness and a premium price, isn’t it?

Later, the packaging can be placed back in a home pot or garden to slowly degrade, providing a conversation topic when guests visit.

Chen Yiyang asked about the needed investment funds, which weren’t much.

He then thought of a previous investment he made in a gold luxury goods company and considered recommending this packaging to them, which could commercialize the product at once.

After finalizing the investment intention,

Chen Yiyang offered Jiang Ming some advice, "In the future, you could direct your research towards things like plastic bags.

If mycelium packaging bags could truly replace plastic bags, then the market potential would be immense."

"We’re working on it," Jiang Ming nodded, saying, "Overall, mycelium will absolutely be very competitive in the future.

Because in the production process of mycelium packaging, it absorbs a large amount of carbon dioxide, which also greatly benefits the surrounding environment."

After chatting for a few more moments, Chen Yiyang left the company.

Back at Zhang Yuling’s home,

before Chen Yiyang could enjoy a massage from Zhang Yuling,

a transoceanic call came in.

Upon answering, the awkward English let Chen Yiyang immediately know who it was.

"Osamu, why are you calling me?"

"Hope I’m not interrupting," the voice of Toyota’s scion came through from the other side.

"Not at all."

"I called to inquire if you would be interested in collaborating with Toyota in the hydrogen energy car sector.

I heard you know many people in Huaxia’s Lin’an, could you help us liaise with the Huaxia government to try promoting hydrogen energy cars in Lin’an?"

"That might be quite difficult," Chen Yiyang said with difficulty, "Hydrogen energy cars, you know, are very dangerous."

"Alright, never mind then." Toyota Osamu soon hung up the phone.

Chen Yiyang was puzzled by the odd call from Toyota Osamu,

so he took out his phone to check.

Only then did he understand what’s going on.

Toyota has invested heavily in hydrogen energy cars, naturally not just promoting within Japan itself.

In North America’s California, Toyota did quite some campaigning, selling several thousand hydrogen energy cars, with a commitment to increase hydrogen refueling stations in the future for convenience.

However, years later, the promised hydrogen stations didn’t increase; instead, existing stations were closing due to raw material and transportation issues, leading to an inability to supply on time.

As a result, not only could these cars not be refueled, but the existing hydrogen stations in California also kept closing.

Now, these hydrogen energy cars can only rust into scrap metal in private yards.

Some people even bought these cars on loans.

Everyone used to know about unfinished buildings, and now Toyota has dramatically created unfinished cars.

Thus, consumers in California started to sue Toyota.

Osamu’s call was likely due to the international uproar over the incident, with Toyota urgently needing to continue expanding the hydrogen car market overseas to avoid a stock price collapse.

Unfortunately, Chen Yiyang couldn’t help them either.

In some way, hydrogen energy cars are essentially a walking explosive; if something goes wrong, the explosion’s power is no less than a bomb.

Which official would dare approve such things into urban areas?