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How to grow plasters from your household compost

    

Would you wear a plaster grown from fungus? US-based bioengineer Aakriti Jain and Parisian industrial designer Guillian Graves think so. They also want think you should grow it yourself in a tabletop “microfactory”.

“Instead of throwing your compost in the trash, you would place it in the device so the SCOBY culture can feed on it,”Jain, currently interning at Harvard Medical School, tells WIRED.co.uk. SCOBY stands for Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast, a common combination used to ferment drinks. In Jain and Grave’s proposed microfactory — called a Growduce — the SCOBY/compost combination would produce layers of leathery cellulose, cellulose that can be grown into any shape using moulds. The cellulose can be customised using different colourings or materials, or in the case of the plaster, some soothing aloe vera can be added.

By: Liat Clark,

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