Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre have co-founded Ecovative. Ecovative seeks to grow green packaging material out of mushrooms. I konw what your thinking, are you telling me these two entrepreneurs passion is mushrooms? No. These entrepreneurs have a passion for helping the environment during their time on earth. The idea was formed while Eben and Gavin were undergrads at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where they studied mechanical engineering.

This process involves using agricultural waste to grow mushrooms in mold. This process can take up to about 120 hours. The material that results is safe enough to keep valuable goods safe while being shipped. The upside is that the packaging goods will not take 10,000 years to decompose. Ecovative already produces packaging materials for Dell and Steelcase.