Published on: 2025-10-11 21:07:20
“This photo was taken at the MycoTile waste-processing space at the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute in Nairobi. The sacks are full of sugar-cane bagasse, a fibrous material that is left behind when the juice is extracted. Sugar-cane processing factories produce mountains of bagasse as waste. I’m the co-founder and chief executive of MycoTile, which works to produce affordable building materials out of agricultural waste bonded with oyster-mushroom mycelium, a network of tiny
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